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All hands were well pleased at the work cut out for them, and eagerly looked forward to the hours of darkness when they might begin shelling the enemy, little troubled by the thoughts of the shot which might be sent on board them from the Russian guns in return.

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  1. pronoun Used as the direct object of a verb: We saw them at the conference.
  2. pronoun Used as the indirect object of a verb: We gave them a round of applause.
  3. pronoun Used as the object of a preposition: This letter is addressed to them.
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  • All hands were well pleased at the work cut out for them, and eagerly looked forward to the hours of darkness when they might begin shelling the enemy, little troubled by the thoughts of the shot which might be sent on board them from the Russian guns in return. —  The Three Commanders
  • Whether we adopted them from the Norwegians, or they adopted them from us, is a matter which will probably never be decided, but several games of this kind are common to all Europe. —  Peeps at Many Lands: Norway
  • As to that, it was quite enough to assure her and half a dozen other patriotic Mexican women, who were at her humble home when he went in, that the great and successful General Santa Anna was hastening to rescue them from the American barbarians who were at this hour getting ashore with a great deal of difficulty through the surf, which was wetting every uniform among them. —  Ahead of the Army
  • The triumph of Alva in the Netherlands, the failure of the Prince of Orange in an attempt to rescue them from the Spanish army, the terror-struck rising of the French Huguenots, the growing embarrassments of Elizabeth both at home and abroad, seemed to offer Rome its opportunity of delivering a final blow. —  History of the English People Volume 4 (of 8)
  • I was at first induced to join with those who derived them from the Hebrews. —  Diary in America, Series Two
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  1. Middle English, from Old Norse theim and Old English thǣm; see to- in Indo-European roots.
 

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