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  • I guess those rabble rousers in Steerage got all uppity with a corpse in their midst.

    March 20th, 2007 danhoyt 2007

  • A little abaft, another companion, labelled Steerage No. 2 and 3, gives admission to three galleries, two running forward towards Steerage

    Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • * "Steerage" in the sailing vessels of the day was the space below decks aft, that is, in the stern of the vessel.

    Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776 1920

  • Unfortunately, though not surprisingly, Sanchez melodramatically played the Hispanic Immigrant, Steerage-Class card as the reason he wasn't a made man instead of considering the fact that he had a bad habit of making a boob out of himself on national television.

    Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010

  • Unfortunately, though not surprisingly, Sanchez melodramatically played the Hispanic Immigrant, Steerage-Class card as the reason he wasn't a made man instead of considering the fact that he had a bad habit of making a boob out of himself on national television.

    Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010

  • The lovely thing about these bite-sized shows is that they are so varied: look out too for Georgina Parry's refugee drama Steerage, and Joanne Sherryden's romcom, The Rainbow Connection New Century House, Fri to 28 Jul.

    This week's new theatre 2011

  • "The Terminal" (1893)—seen in two versions, one boldly cropped—and "The Steerage" (1907) reflect those unpredictable times when his social conscience erupted to the surface.

    From the Shadows of Giants Richard B. Woodward 2011

  • Unfortunately, though not surprisingly, Sanchez melodramatically played the Hispanic Immigrant, Steerage-Class card as the reason he wasn't a made man instead of considering the fact that he had a bad habit of making a boob out of himself on national television.

    Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010

  • Unfortunately, though not surprisingly, Sanchez melodramatically played the Hispanic Immigrant, Steerage-Class card as the reason he wasn't a made man instead of considering the fact that he had a bad habit of making a boob out of himself on national television.

    Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010

  • Unfortunately, though not surprisingly, Sanchez melodramatically played the Hispanic Immigrant, Steerage-Class card as the reason he wasn't a made man instead of considering the fact that he had a bad habit of making a boob out of himself on national television.

    Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010

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