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Also he saw the river steamer Apache lying ahead of him, and a couple of deck-hands disentangling the shreds of his net from the paddle-wheel.
Charley's Coup 2010
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Many evenings that summer -- sometimes seven a week -- full of contrary and heightened emotions and what I thought was secret knowledge, I would walk or ride my bicycle to a secluded park, which had a ramshackle wreckage of an old-fashioned New Orleans-style paddle-wheel river boat.
Howard Norman: Howard Norman: How To Write A Love Triangle? Live One 2010
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A small robotic aircraft powered by rotating “paddle-wheel” wings could yet rule the skies, if renewed interest in an antique design bears fruit.
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In the third week of December, Victoria traveled south aboard the royal train to Portsmouth where she boarded the 160-foot-long, 370-ton paddle-wheel steamer Alberta.
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In the third week of December, Victoria traveled south aboard the royal train to Portsmouth where she boarded the 160-foot-long, 370-ton paddle-wheel steamer Alberta.
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Many evenings that summer -- sometimes seven a week -- full of contrary and heightened emotions and what I thought was secret knowledge, I would walk or ride my bicycle to a secluded park, which had a ramshackle wreckage of an old-fashioned New Orleans-style paddle-wheel river boat.
Howard Norman: Howard Norman: How To Write A Love Triangle? Live One Howard Norman 2010
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Well, it promised to be a most satisfactory cruise, and with the distant throb of the paddle-wheel to lull me I was drifting off to sleep when another noise, muffled but closer at hand, began to pull me slowly back to consciousness.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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For over eighteen months she covered the vast territory by plane, train, truck, paddle-wheel steamer, and dogsled.
Ruth Gruber. 2009
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Our paddle-wheel transports, protected by ironclads, will carry over two separate invasion forces, dividing our force in the American's face to show them our displeasure.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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_Satellite_ steam-tender, in which the passengers were conveyed, helplessly huddled together like a flock of sheep, to the _Canada_, an 1850-ton paddle-wheel steamer of the Cunard line, which was moored in the centre of the Mersey.
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