Steamers

Examples

• The boat now began, with heavy groans, like some vast, tired monster, to prepare to push up among the multiplied steamers at the levee. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Steamers plied daily between San Francisco and both Stockton and Sacramento. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They seemed to be very fond of coming up on steamers under flags of truce. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Some of my men were engaged in firing from captured guns at empty steamers down the river, out of range, cheering at every shot. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• His troops were still east of the river, and the steamers that had carried Nelson's division up were mostly at Clarksville to bring Smith's division. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Admiral Porter proceeded with the preparation of the steamers for their hazardous passage of the enemy's batteries. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On arriving at Clarksville I saw a fleet of steamers at the shore--the same that had taken Nelson's division--and troops going aboard. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• All but two of the steamers were commanded by volunteers from the army, and all but one so manned. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The navy was the only escort and protection for these steamers, all of which in getting below had to run about fourteen miles of batteries. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• At that day ocean steamers were rare, and what there were were sidewheelers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The four machines can be moved to any part of the dock to which steamers are moored and four ships can be unloaded rapidly at one time. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• With this vessel and the ram Webb, which they had had for some time in the Red River, and two other steamers, they followed the Indianola. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Even if the canal had proven a success, so far as to be navigable for steamers, it could not have been of much advantage to us. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It is now past midnight; so, if you can catch one of those steamers before to-morrow night, you will be in Syra by the next day. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• By the time she had been hailed and stopped, both steamers were drifting away from us, and we were rising and falling in a troubled wake of water. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Accordingly six more steamers were protected as before, to run the batteries, and were loaded with supplies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Side wheel steamers for inland waters, and screw propellers for sea service, however, in time established their fitness for their respective scenes of action. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The troops, with the exception of the artillery, cavalry, and the brigade to which I belonged, were moved up the river to Camargo on steamers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The intervening land is cut up by bayous filled from the river in high water--many of them navigable for steamers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The troops were embarked on steamers and were on their way down the Mississippi within a few days after the receipt of this order. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was in 1840 that the famous Cunard line of transatlantic steamers was established, soon followed by the Collins line and others. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I got back on the 5th with the advance the remainder following as rapidly as the steamers could carry them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In the matter of size the Oceanic surpasses all previous efforts in ship building, but ocean steamers do not reach the highest speed attainable. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Steamers to use as ferries were also essential. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In 1890 McDougal’s whale-back steamers were introduced. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• To get up these rapids, steamers must be cordelled; that is, pulled up by ropes from the shore. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There was a large number of steamers lying at Cairo and a good many boatmen were staying in the town. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Some of the steamers that had got below were injured in their machinery, so that they were only useful as barges towed by those less severely injured. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The look-out was kept, long after all was still again and the two steamers were gone; but everybody knew that it was hopeless now. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• They go part of the way in English steamers, and the ten or twelve dollars they pay for passage is about all the trip costs. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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