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Sentences ending with steamboat

The vineyard, the yellow stubble; and the river rushing on and on with tranquil power, and the slow panting of the steamboat. [9]
Tom went on whitewashing--paid no attention to the steamboat. [5]
So then they waited for a steamboat. [5]
At last he turned up as apprentice engineer or 'striker' on a steamboat. [5]
I have knocked out everything that delayed the march of the story--even the description of a Mississippi steamboat. [5]
And he always let on that Peter wrote him the things; but that was a lie: he got every blessed one of them out of that young flathead that we canoed up to the steamboat. [5]
All the value any feature of it had for me now was the amount of usefulness it could furnish toward compassing the safe piloting of a steamboat. [5]
He was eating an apple, and giving a long, melodious whoop, at intervals, followed by a deep-toned ding-dong-dong, ding-dong-dong, for he was personating a steamboat. [5]
Goose Island is all gone but a little dab the size of a steamboat. [5]

Sentences containing steamboat two or more times

He was the patriarch of the craft; he had been a keelboat pilot before the day of steamboats; and a steamboat pilot before any other steamboat pilot, still surviving at the time I speak of, had ever turned a wheel. [5]
You see he laid over me and Jim considerable, because we only went down the river on a raft and came back by the steamboat, but Tom went by the steamboat both ways. [5]
He left a diary behind him; but apparently it did not date back to his first steamboat trip, which was said to be 1811, the year the first steamboat disturbed the waters of the Mississippi. [5]
But wash that boat and repaint her, and she would be about the counterpart of the most complimented boat of the old flush times: for the steamboat architecture of the West has undergone no change; neither has steamboat furniture and ornamentation undergone any. [5]

More example sentences with the word steamboat in them

If the steamboat would leave at midnight, we could catch the railway train at Pictou. [4]
He stared, and wondered, and finally said-- 'Well, I thought I knew how to steer a steamboat, but that was another mistake of mine. [5]
The steamboat men will take pains to make them grow. [7]
Take the steamboat which I have just described, and you have her in her highest and finest, and most pleasing, and comfortable, and satisfactory estate. [5]
I had hoped when I planned the series to bring down this novel through the stirring period which ended, by a chance, when a steamboat brought supplies to Jackson's army in New Orleans--the beginning of the era of steam commerce on our Western waters. [9]
And yet these were kindly dispensations, for they at least enabled the poor things to rise from the dead now and then, and look upon life when a steamboat went by. [5]
After sojourning a week at Lake Bigler, I went to Steamboat Springs, and, besides the steam-baths, I took a lot of the vilest medicines that were ever concocted. [5]
Through this delicious weather why should the steamboat hasten, in order to discharge its passengers into the sweeping unrest of continental travel? [4]
Going into Cairo, we came near killing a steamboat which paid no attention to our whistle and then tried to cross our bows. [5]
Being Tom Sawyer was easy and comfortable, and it stayed easy and comfortable till by and by I hear a steamboat coughing along down the river. [5]
A couple of trips made her wonted and easygoing at the work, and infatuated her with the stir and adventure and independence of steamboat life. [5]
If I had Tom Sawyer's head I wouldn't trade it off to be a duke, nor mate of a steamboat, nor clown in a circus, nor nothing I can think of. [5]
They took railroad to Alton and the steamboat from there to St. Louis, for the change and to have a glimpse of the river. [5]
We had ample time, for the steamboat after its arduous trip needed rest, and remained some hours in the harbor. [4]
Our leisurely steamboat tied up here in the afternoon and spent the night, giving the passengers an opportunity to make thorough acquaintance with the town. [4]
I was joined there by a stranger, who dropped into conversation with me--a brisk young fellow, who said he was born in a town in the interior of Wisconsin, and had never seen a steamboat until a week before. [5]
I went to the stern of the steamboat to tell a stout American traveler what was the origin of the odor he had been trying to dodge all the morning. [4]
What mood were the steamboat men in when this bridge was burned? [7]
By and by the steamboat intruded. [5]
It was only the second time either of them had been upon a Mississippi steamboat, and nearly everything they saw had the charm of novelty. [5]
We would sell the raft and get on a steamboat and go way up the Ohio amongst the free States, and then be out of trouble. [5]
Give a man the merest trifle of pluck to start with, and by the time he has become a pilot he cannot be unmanned by any danger a steamboat can get into; but one cannot quite say the same for judgment. [5]
I have seen the hull of a steamboat that was smaller than one of those stones. [5]
He was descending the Hudson in a steamboat when the tidings first reached him. [4]
We congratulated ourselves that we should at least have a night of delightful sleep on the steamboat in the quiet of this secluded harbor. [4]
Then he remarked that he had undertaken to 'learn' me all about a steamboat, and had done it; but that if he had overlooked anything, just ask him and he would supply the lack. [5]
They started to take steamboat just above No. [5]
Go for the steamboat, Huckleberry; we'll come down to the village on her. [5]
Like the Mississippi steamboat which was so weak that when the whistle blew the engines stopped! [11]
We had a steamboat or two on the Thames, we had steam warships, and the beginnings of a steam commercial marine; I was getting ready to send out an expedition to discover America. [5]
It resembled a steamboat explosion on the Mississippi; and during the next fifteen minutes we stood under a steady drizzle of microscopic fragments of knights and hardware and horse-flesh. [5]
A good many steamboat corpses lie buried there, out of sight; among the rest my first friend the 'Paul Jones;' she knocked her bottom out, and went down like a pot, so the historian told me--Uncle Mumford. [5]
Bronzed and weatherbeaten son of the West, Mark was a man's man, and that significant fact is emphasized by the several phases of Mark's rich life as steamboat pilot, printer, miner, and frontier journalist. [5]
During the forenoon something in the nature of an excursion developed itself on the steamboat, but it had so few of the bustling features of an American excursion that I thought it might be a pilgrimage. [4]
I would rather sink a steamboat than eat, any time. [5]
The family fought shy of the questionings, and of course that was high testimony "if the Duchess was respectably born, why didn't they come out and prove it?--why did they, stick to that poor thin story about picking her up out of a steamboat explosion? [5]
Fill that whole region with an impenetrable gloom of smoke from a hundred miles of burning bagasse piles, when the river is over the banks, and turn a steamboat loose along there at midnight and see how she will feel. [5]
There was no prospect of any excitement or of any adventure on the steamboat from Baddeck to West Bay, the southern point of the Bras d'Or. [4]
It took a power of sand to bury that cretur; most as much as it would to bury a steamboat, I reckon. [5]
The clerk of our boat was a steamboat clerk before these roads were built. [5]
From the deck of the steamboat he addressed the town, and then, to the relief of the passengers, he decided to go ashore. [4]
In the pride of his young ambition he had aspired to be a steamboat mate; and in fancy saw himself dominating a forecastle some day on the Mississippi and dictating terms to roustabouts in high and wounding terms. [5]
At the time of first finding Laura on the steamboat, did she notice that Laura's mind was at all deranged? [5]
The silver smoke of a steamboat hung in wisps above the water. [9]
Into the life of a steamboat clerk, now dead, had dropped a bit of romance--somewhat grotesque romance, but romance nevertheless. [5]
In the autumn of '59, through the kindness of Mr. Brinsmade, Stephen had gone on a steamboat up the river to a great convention in Iowa. [9]
The steamboat would not sail on her return till morning. [4]
I dreamed all night about Indians, deserts, and silver bars, and in due time, next day, we took shipping at the St. Louis wharf on board a steamboat bound up the Missouri River. [5]
It was the most important steamboat in the world. [5]
Say to the man of letters, that he cannot paint a Transfiguration, or build a steamboat, or be a grand-marshal, and he will not seem to himself depreciated. [6]
These railroads have made havoc with the steamboat commerce. [5]
A father who left his son a steamboat bar, left him a fortune. [5]
While the steamboat lay at the wharf at Rorschach, two stout porters came on board, and shouldered his baggage to take it ashore. [4]
There's a steamboat just coming round the bend. [5]
That same Saturday--no, it was the night before--there was a steamboat laying at Flagler's Landing, forty miles above here, and it was raining and storming like the nation. [5]
When occasion demanded, it sent members down the river upon searches for the bodies of brethren lost by steamboat accidents; a search of this kind sometimes cost a thousand dollars. [5]
I was out in the yawl twice, and then we got through, but the infernal steamboat came near running over us. [5]
The locomotive is in sight from the deck of the steamboat almost the whole way from St. Louis to St. Paul--eight hundred miles. [5]
It is almost impossible to give the unscientific reader an idea of the slowness of travel by steamboat in these regions. [4]
Firmly resolved as I was to note our entrance into the harbor, I could not keep the place in mind; and while we were in our state-room and before we knew it, the steamboat Jay at the wharf. [4]
He had always hoped to make another steamboat trip with Bixby, but one thing and another interfered and he did not go again. [5]
Other persons of his profession must, however, have been less scrupulous; for the book was read in city, town, village, and hamlet, steamboat, and stage-coach, and a sort of war-whoop was sent forth perfectly unprecedented in my recollection upon any occasion whatever. [5]
Jimmy's father stopped him from driving imaginary horse-cars one Sunday--stopped him from playing captain of an imaginary steamboat next Sunday--stopped him from leading an imaginary army to battle the following Sunday--and so on. [5]
No doubt you have heard a great deal about Robert Fulton and the influences that have grown from his invention, but the little steamboat is suffering neglect. [5]
I seemed to have forgotten the river, but I hadn't forgotten how to steer a steamboat, nor how to enjoy it, either. [5]
The steamboat, which had left Baltimore and an arctic temperature the night before, was drawing near the wharf at Fortress Monroe, and the passengers, most of whom were seeking a mild climate, were crowding the guards, eagerly scanning the long facade of the Hygeia Hotel. [4]
If Henry Brierly had been blown up on the first Mississippi steamboat he set foot on, as the chances were that he would be, he and Col. [5]
The Shepherdsons and Grangerfords used the same steamboat landing, which was about two mile above our house; so sometimes when I went up there with a lot of our folks I used to see a lot of the Shepherdsons there on their fine horses. [5]
Several men have given their opinion as to the distance of the steamboat Carson, and I suppose if one should go and measure that distance you would believe him in preference to all of them. [7]
He says: "If gentlemen kin afford to pay a dollar a mile apiece to be took on and put off in a yawl, a steamboat kin afford to carry 'em, can't it? [5]
A Mr. H. furnished some minor details of fact concerning this region which I would have hesitated to believe if I had not known him to be a steamboat mate. [5]
The wind blew freshly, and swept a shower over the deck of the little steamboat, on board of which we stepped from the shabby little pier and town of Romanshorn. [4]
Jim made a floor for the wigwam, and raised it a foot or more above the level of the raft, so now the blankets and all the traps was out of reach of steamboat waves. [5]
One of the first memories of Emerson which comes up is my meeting him on the steamboat at returning from Detroit East. [6]
There was a fine steamboat lying at the wharf, and I had hardly stepped ashore before they told me she was President Lincoln's. [9]
I shut one eye and peered within--it was flaked with iron rust like an old steamboat boiler. [5]
If that hill didn't change its shape on bad nights there would be an awful steamboat grave-yard around here inside of a year. [5]
In those old days, to load a steamboat at St. Louis, take her to New Orleans and back, and discharge cargo, consumed about twenty-five days, on an average. [5]
I believe she could take the wheel of a steamboat in a storm, or the hose of a fire-engine in a conflagration, and handle it as well as the captain of the boat or of the fire-company. [6]
Jim said we could take deck passage on a steamboat now, and the money would last us as far as we wanted to go in the free States. [5]
The steamboat had come to be used, so that he seemed to be transported from place to place by magic; and on a near view the politics of America seemed not less interesting than those of Europe. [4]
But it's all changed now; plenty staterooms above, no harvesters below--there's a patent self-binder now, and they don't have harvesters any more; they've gone where the woodbine twineth--and they didn't go by steamboat, either; went by the train. [5]
They accepted and came aboard, and the steamboat shoved out up the creek. [5]
Then everybody traveled by steamboat, everybody drank, and everybody treated everybody else. [5]
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. [5]
You will hardly believe it, but many steamboat clerks always carried a large assortment of religious tracts with them in those old departed steamboating days. [5]
A second steamboat began work in the Neckar three months after the first one was put in service. [5]
Her father had been a steamboat captain--once an honoured calling in the city of her nativity--a devout Presbyterian who believed in the most rigid simplicity. [9]
How solemn and beautiful is the thought, that the earliest pioneer of civilization, the van-leader of civilization, is never the steamboat, never the railroad, never the newspaper, never the Sabbath-school, never the missionary--but always whiskey! [5]
It got to be very late and still, and then along comes a steamboat up the river. [5]
He lived to be mate of a steamboat again. [5]
While we were at supper the steamboat arrived from Pictou. [4]
But as soon as money was up on him he was a different dog; his under-jaw'd begin to stick out like the fo'castle of a steamboat, and his teeth would uncover and shine like the furnaces. [5]
Dozens of crossings are lighted which were not shoal when they were created, and have never been shoal since; crossings so plain, too, and also so straight, that a steamboat can take herself through them without any help, after she has been through once. [5]
I rose up, and there was Jackson's Island, about two mile and a half down stream, heavy timbered and standing up out of the middle of the river, big and dark and solid, like a steamboat without any lights. [5]
Why this new and simple method of handling the stages was not thought of when the first steamboat was built, is a mystery which helps one to realize what a dull-witted slug the average human being is. [5]
While I waited and looked on I presently recognized in this watchmaker an old acquaintance--a steamboat engineer of other days, and not a good engineer, either. [5]
In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip on a steamboat from Louisville to St. Louis. [7]
Mrs. Hawkins slowly and conscientiously, as if every detail of her family history was important, told the story of the steamboat explosion, of the finding and adoption of Laura. [5]
Between St. Louis and Cairo the steamboat wrecks average one to the mile;--two hundred wrecks, altogether. [5]

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