passenger-ship love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A ship which carries passengers.

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Examples

  • Fortunately, a large part of the passenger-ship of this convoy - us - is standing around with nothing to do.

    Dream 2009

  • Fortunately, a large part of the passenger-ship of this convoy - us - is standing around with nothing to do.

    Dream 2009

  • Then I stowed away on a passenger-ship bound for Europe.

    Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963

  • Comfort is here out of the question; common decency has been rendered impossible; and the horrible brutalities of the passenger-ship are day after day repeated, -- but on a larger scale.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

  • He'd studied electronics in books from looted passenger-ship libraries.

    The Pirates of Ersatz Murray Leinster 1935

  • Then he found the _Horus_ alongside a passenger-ship.

    Talents, Incorporated Murray Leinster 1935

  • I'm sure we've sent four shiploads of food back to the fleet, besides the passenger-ship we'd rather have missed.

    Talents, Incorporated Murray Leinster 1935

  • We are going to release the cargo-ships and the passenger-ship you sent us.

    Talents, Incorporated Murray Leinster 1935

  • Lima to Auckland in a big, old, condemned passenger-ship turned into

    The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • He had gleaned among the poorest of the native population in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro until his health suffered, and had taken passage home in a passenger-ship, which, ten days out, was captured by

    "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888

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