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• The ships fired grape shot but to no effect. They about ship and went to sea.
• This Amanda refused and was about shipping to the other side, when the gentleman sprang out, clasped her in his arms, lifted her in, whistled to his horse and the next moment was flying about like mad [...]
• The captain saw that no further progress could be made with safety, so he about ship, and ran for Newcastle.
• "Jones fired first and broke its leg, so he charged; Noland hit him in the back, so he about ship and wanted to make mince meat of him for his trouble; when the Doctor sent a shot through his shoulder, and he sprawled," coolly replied the boatswain's mate, as he was cutting the animal's throat, to the numerous inquiries.
• We are told repeatedly that the King advised, restrained, coerced, conceded; that he alone saw the end from the beginning, and that in his hand only the helm of the State "about-shipped" or stood still at the right moment.
• They stood for the land, and as they could not fetch in before dark, they about ship, and lay "a hull, all that night," finding abundance of fish, "very large and great" [...]
• So we about shipped and started back (did not the steamboat men swear some then)?
• Then, his men sweating and straining and reloading, he about ship and did it again and again.
• Birds in the air, and seaweeds in the water, indicated the nearness or absence of lands; and there is actual record of one voyage aiming at Rarotonga from the north knowing he had missed it by the coldness of the sea; without delay he about ship, and soon made the island.
• She “about-shipped,” and returned up the river again.
• as the sea and the wind were so dead ahead that they found they could make no way, and the boat was at times half full of water, so they about ship and ran before the wind, much to their delight, living on geese and water melons (capital things on a hot day); spent a very comfortable night before the fires, without any blankets [...]