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alongside

/əˌlɔŋˈsaɪd/ adverb B2
  1. Along the side; by the side; side by side; abreast. · Ahoy! Bring your boat alongside.· All of a sudden, another car drew up alongside.
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The vague disquietude which prevailed among the spectators had so much affected one of the crowd that he did not await the arrival of the vessel in harbor, but jumping into a small skiff, desired to be pulled alongside the Pharaon, which he reached as she rounded into La Réserve basin.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1 · C1
But, pardon me, here are the health officers and the customs inspectors coming alongside.” And the young man went to the gangway.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 7 · C1
But somehow--I don’t know how it is but when Anne and them are together, though she ain’t half as handsome, she makes them look kind of common and overdone--something like them white June lilies she calls narcissus alongside of the big, red peonies, that’s what.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 257 · C1
Four shallops came off with very little noise alongside the lugger, which, no doubt, in acknowledgement of the compliment, lowered her own shallop into the sea, and the five boats worked so well that by two o’clock in the morning all the cargo was out of La Jeune Amélie and on terra firma.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 239 · C1

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