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noun

Arrival n.

The act of arriving, or coming; the act of reaching a place from a distance, whether by water (as in its original sense) or by land. "Our watchmen from the towers, with longing eyes, Expect his swift arrival."

The attainment or reaching of any object, by effort, or in natural course; as, our arrival at this conclusion was wholly unexpected.

The person or thing arriving or which has arrived; as, news brought by the last arrival. "Another arrival still more important was speedily announced."

An approach. (Obs.) "The house has a corner arrival."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Arrival" Quotes from Famous Books

... with his self-imposed task when a diversion was created by the entrance of a new arrival. A short, stout man stood for a moment with the handle of the door in his hand, and then came in, carefully bearing before him a glass of gin and water. It was the first time that he had set foot there, and all understood that by this intrusion Mr. Daniel Kybird ...

— At Sunwich Port, Complete • W.W. Jacobs

... he was twenty, and soon afterwards took his wife to Edgeworth Town to introduce her to his parents; but a few days after his arrival his mother, who had long been an invalid, felt that her end was approaching, and calling him to her bedside, told him, with a sort of pleasure, that she felt she should die before night. She added: ...

— Richard Lovell Edgeworth - A Selection From His Memoir • Richard Lovell Edgeworth

... democratic opinion which found its sustenance outside the House of Commons, the opinion the strength of which was later to force the elder Pitt upon an unwilling king. An able pamphlet of the time shows us the arrival of this unlooked-for portent. Faction detected by the Evidence of Facts (1742) was, though it is anonymous,[16] obviously written by one in touch with the inner current of affairs. The author had hoped for the fall of Walpole, though he sees the ...

— Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham • Harold J. Laski

... We did not share your certainty, M. Versal, concerning the arrival of a deluge. Even when we embarked we were not sure that it would be more than an affair of ...

— The Second Deluge • Garrett P. Serviss

... remember a droll story of a misapprehension caused by her ladyship's title. During an official journey, Sir John Campbell and Baroness Stratheden slept at lodgings which he had frequently occupied as a circuiteer. On the morning after his arrival, the landlady obtained a special interview with Campbell, and in the baroness's absence thus addressed him, with mingled indignation and respectfulness:—"Sir John Campbell, I am a lone widow, and live by my good name. It is not in my humble place to be too curious about the ladies brought ...

— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson

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