steerage

• Herman was sent below to see that every seaman in the steerage was awake and ready to act, and he succeeded in eluding the sleepy vigilance of Bitts Perth gave the signal for those in the steerage, and at the same time whistled for the information of those on deck. —  Down the Rhine Young America in Germany
• Just before the clock strikes twelve, when all the little children in the steerage are asleep ANITA. —  The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays
• A good view of the steerage is the best possible enlightener Sidenote: A Graphic Grouping A million a year and more is the rate at which immigrants are now coming into the United States. —  Aliens or Americans?
• But you may send the others on board Captain Folkner was in no better humor than before, and a berth in the steerage was assigned to him. —  Within The Enemy's Lines
• They brought a guager, who measured only her hold and part of her steerage, allowing nothing for the cockpit, cabin, forecastle, and above one half of the steerage, which is almost half the vessel, and thus made her contents (if that had been of any importance) much below the truth. —  Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1

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