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A large barque, perhaps of eighteen hundred tons, was coming more than usually close about the point to reach her moorings; and I was observing her with languid inattention, when I observed two men to stride across the bulwarks, drop into a shore boat, and, violently dispossessing the boatman of his oars, pull toward the landing where I stood.
(The Wrecker by R. L. Stevenson and L. Osbourne, chapter viii, published 1892)
Please, what does was coming . . . about or come about mean in this context?
(The Wrecker by R. L. Stevenson and L. Osbourne, chapter viii, published 1892)
Please, what does was coming . . . about or come about mean in this context?