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steamboat
1. Who foresaw his brother’s death on the steamboat
2. Robert Fulton was the first American to build a steamboat, and he operated it on the Hudson River in 1807
3. the privilege of carrying all steamboat traffic in New York to extend for thirty years
4. A gigantic steamboat sat near the docks in the river below
5. She did not know for sure where she was, but she had heard a blast from the horn of a steamboat, and it seemed reasonably loud, leading her to believe she was near the river
6. The only noise she could hear was the chugging of a steamboat and the two men talking
7. I imagine that steamboat belonged to the Peninsular & Oriental line, which provides service from the island of Ceylon to Sidney, also calling at King George Sound and Melbourne
8. We fixed up a short forked stick to hang the old lantern on, because we must always light the lantern whenever we see a steamboat coming down-stream, to keep from getting run over; but we wouldn't have to light it for up-stream boats unless we see we was in what they call a "crossing"; for the river was pretty high yet, very low banks being still a little under water; so up-bound boats didn't always run the channel, but hunted easy water
9. By and by says I, "Hel-LO, Jim, looky yonder!" It was a steamboat that had killed herself on a rock
10. He told them he was a pirate—been a pirate for thirty years out in the Indian Ocean—and his crew was thinned out considerable last spring in a fight, and he was home now to take out some fresh men, and thanks to goodness he'd been robbed last night and put ashore off of a steamboat without a cent, and he was glad of it; it was the blessedest thing that ever happened to him, because he was a changed man now, and happy for the first time in his life; and, poor as he was, he was going to start right off and work his way back to the Indian Ocean, and put in the rest of his life trying to turn the pirates into the true path; for he could do it better than anybody else, being acquainted with all pirate crews in that ocean; and though it would take him a long time to get there without money, he would get there anyway, and every time he convinced a pirate he would say to him, "Don't you thank me, don't you give me no credit; it all belongs to them
11. There was a big steamboat laying at the shore away up under the point, about three mile above the town— been there a couple of hours, taking on freight
12. "For the steamboat; going to Orleans
13. So then they waited for a steamboat
14. Well, whilst they was at it a steamboat landed, and in about
15. From Chalons to Lyons you will go on by the steamboat
16. From Lyons to Avignon (still by steamboat)
17. The following morning they arrived at Chalons, where the count's steamboat waited for them
18. I WAS ARRESTED IN STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLORADO, THOUGH I think in that case the circumstances may speak well of me
19. I was arrested in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, though I think in that case the circumstances may speak well of me
20. At Pier 41 the transpacific ocean liner President Madison snapped her hawsers and careened into the steamboat Harvester, sinking her
21. Louis, and I remember on the way there he stopped at Hannibal—I heard the steamboat whistle
22. Iron Steamboat Company General Mortgage 4s, due 1932, had no sinking fund, although the boats on which they were a lien were obviously subject to a constant loss in value
23. You know what Ron said? He’d feel financially free if he could donate $100,000 a year to their church—and maybe throw in a small Bass fishing boat and a ski vacation condo in Steamboat Springs for his family
24. ; it was a piece of mechanism which was not good for much; a sort of plaything, the idle dream of a dream-ridden inventor; an utopia—a steamboat
25. the cuckoo, there is the railway car; where there was a tenderboat, there is now the steamboat; people speak of Fecamp nowadays as they spoke of Saint-Cloud in those days
26. Early among these were several Americans, Oliver Evans, one of the first to project steam railway travel, and James Rumsey and John Fitch, steamboat inventors of early date
27. There were several experimenters in Europe also, but the first to produce a practical steamboat was Robert Fulton, a native of Pennsylvania, whose successful boat; the Clermont, made its maiden trip up the Hudson in 1807
28. It was about two o'clock when my brother, having paid their fares at the gangway, found himself safely aboard the steamboat with his charges
29. And then a swift movement of the steamboat (she had suddenly come round to avoid being run down) flung him headlong from the seat upon which he was standing
30. The steamboat lurched and rolled him over upon his hands
31. She was steaming at such a pace that in a minute she seemed halfway between the steamboat and the Martians--a diminishing black bulk against the receding horizontal expanse of the Essex coast
32. But the ironclads to seaward were now quite close and standing in towards shore past the steamboat