riverboat

• “Is this your first time on the riverboat, miss?” Hanna joked. —  Cleary, Melissa - Dog Mystery 04 - Skull and Dog Bones
• Twain spent his pre-writer years as a riverboat pilot, and he eloquently describes just what sort of procedure he had to go through to become one. —  AnalogSFF,November2007
• The riverboat was similar in design to most of the others at the quayside, measuring about fourteen meters from its high, knife-sharp bow to its glutcally rounded stern. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
• A distant liquid music swelled in his ears as though an operatic riverboat were passing overhead. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 04-05 - October-November 1995
• And, as I saw, going through those index cards again and again like a riverboat gambler trying to foretell the deal coming, there was material here which provided neither frustration nor encouragement but only a large blank. —  The Luxembourg Run

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