Maderia

Several more days passed, for the Maderia was a slow boat, and could not make good time to Mexico.

Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground Victor [pseud.] Appleton

"Madeira and the adjoining islet": 'Maderia' in original; and so in

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) Charles Darwin 1845

Maderia has a special affinity with truffles, but you can use a dry white wine instead.

Archive 2008-07-01 2008

Maderia has a special affinity with truffles, but you can use a dry white wine instead.

At My Table 2008

Morning saw the Maderia well out to sea, and, as there was quite a swell on, the vessel rolled and pitched to an uncomfortable degree.

Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground Victor [pseud.] Appleton

Fussy little tugs were pushing their blunt noses against the sides of the Maderia to help her and, in brief, there was not a little excitement.

Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground Victor [pseud.] Appleton

Pg. 98: good dinner and a bottle or two of choice Maderia [Madeira]

Lucile Triumphant Elizabeth M. Duffield

The people on the dock were waving farewells to those on the boat, and those on the deck of the Maderia shook their handkerchiefs, their steamer rugs, their hands, umbrellas -- in short anything to indicate their feelings.

Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground Victor [pseud.] Appleton

These were the exclamations made by our four friends a few days later, as they leaned over the rail of the Maderia and watched a big school of porpoises gamboling about in the warm waters of the gulf stream.

Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground Victor [pseud.] Appleton

The Maderia quivered from stem to stern, seemed to hesitate a moment as though she had been brought to a sudden stop, and then plowed on, only to bring up against some obstruction again, with that same sickening jar throughout her length.

Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground Victor [pseud.] Appleton