What is "embarkations"

Usage examples of "embarkations".

And yet she still took great care that when the public passages of life-weddings, comings-of-age, graduations, embarkations, divinations, deathwatches, burials-were under her care, they took place with an easy grace, a gentleness that kept people's minds focused on the occasion, and not on the machinery of celebration.

And yet she still took great care that when the public passages of life-weddings, comings-of-age, graduations, embarkations, divinations, deathwatches, burials-were under her care, they took place with an easy grace, a gentleness that kept people’s minds focused on the occasion, and not on the machinery of celebration.

The passages booked, the separate embarkations, the later meeting in a hotel on Alba.

With passenger churn approaching 40 percent per destination, they'd gone through six or seven thousand embarkations, not to mention the Entertainments staff: they'd shipped an entire chamber orchestra from Rosencrantz to Eiger, never mind the other irregular performers that Ents kept hiring and firing.

We must have seen something like a hundred of these embarkations in the course of that day's paddle, ranged one after another like the houses in a street.

The contrast between these pleasure embarkations and our own grim vessel, with her list to port and her freight of wet and silent emigrants, was of that glaring description which we count too obvious for the purposes of art.

Station farewells, he had observed, were even worse than embarkations, which at least had the merit of affording a whiff of good sea air.