What is "disembark"

Usage examples of "disembark".

Becoming weary of the slow progress of the ships, he disembarked four leagues below Asuncion, at a farm belonging to the Company.

He and Audubon and Harris clasped hands and clapped one another on the back when the gangplank went down and passengers could disembark.

At Beira, a Portuguese port through which we have treaty rights by which we may pass troops, a curious mixed force of Australians, New Zealanders and others was being disembarked and pushed through to Rhodesia, so as to cut off any trek which the Boers might make in that direction.

Before the close of the year the Directoire pushed a step further, and Hoche made an attempt, frustrated by bad weather, to disembark in Ireland, which was ready to revolt against England.

It was also colder, and the Marathans who disembarked there beamed down wearing enviro suits that provided precious warmth.

If I had disembarked at Flensburg perfectly normally, and Mother had given birth to me there, I would not have been an exemplary case, and today would not provide any cause for quibbling.

As they disembarked through the tiny Guernsey terminal building into the dull, breezy morning, after a cross-Channel hop spent mostly in silence, Alex looked around for a taxi rank.

By the time I had disembarked from my first-class coach at Howrah Station, I had acknowledged the imperative of that great truth.

Israeli helicopter took off bearing the SAS men to their destinations, flying over the Holy Land, bound first for the grim headquarters of Northern Command, where Ray Kerman, Fred, and Charlie would disembark prior to joining the Golani Brigade, the tight IDF battalion that would provide the main cordon in Hebron.

At last the boat stopped at a small town, and Legree, with his party, disembarked.

As the wind was fair and moderate, their labours were not unsuccessful, and the troops were safely disembarked at Methone, on the Messenian coast, to repose themselves for a while after the fatigues of the sea.

We entered a small boat lying beside the island, and in a few minutes were disembarking upon Shador.

In a few moments Harding and Herbert on one side, the reporter and Neb on the other, had disappeared behind the rocks, and five minutes later Ayrton and Pencroft, having without difficulty crossed the channel, disembarked on the islet and concealed themselves in the clefts of its eastern shore.

The second raft pushed up behind the first, and those aboard made to disembark, but an overanxious departure by the first soldiers dangerously unbalanced the craft and the raft tipped, throwing the remaining passengers into the river with a tremendous splash.

Prince Antar watched his knights and the men-at-arms disembark from the punts and begin to spread out along the skid-road.