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  • "Captain Hayward," one of them demanded of the steamer's skipper, "could a whale sink the Mariposa?"

    CHAPTER XVI 2010

  • At least, so he told the lady tourists on the Makembo, though in different terms; and they worshipped him as a hero, for they were lady tourists and they would know only the safety of the steamer's deck as she threaded her way through the Solomons.

    THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS 2010

  • The steamer's first voyage went entirely unnoticed in the New York papers until after Fulton returned to the city and penned a letter to the editor of the American Citizen.

    Carolyn Vega: Quicksilver Bob Invents the "Highest Blessing of the Water" Carolyn Vega 2011

  • In the swell of the steamer's wake, the skiff shipped quarter-full of water.

    CHAPTER XVI 2010

  • "All ready, Miss Welse, though I'm sorry we can't spare one of the steamer's boats."

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • The steamer's first voyage went entirely unnoticed in the New York papers until after Fulton returned to the city and penned a letter to the editor of the American Citizen.

    Carolyn Vega: Quicksilver Bob Invents the "Highest Blessing of the Water" Carolyn Vega 2011

  • I lay there staring out of the window while he was marshalling his fancies into order again and I heard a steamer's siren from the river, a sharp double blast.

    Movie Night 2010

  • He waited for the steamer's next step, then dropped to a crouch between two of the units, shooting out his right leg as he did so.

    It's October, 1956. Shelagh Power-Chopra 2010

  • Churchill endures hellish bad luck and the fell clutch of circumstance when he leaves Dawson: his steamer's engines break down; he freezes his hands paddling a canoe to Thirty Mile River and must dive into the icy water to retrieve the grip when the canoe capsizes.

    “Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, . . . .” 2008

  • It nullified the steamer's heat and sent it running.

    Stork Naked Anthony, Piers 2006

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