Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A packet propelled by steam.
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Examples
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On the next afternoon, that is to say, on Saturday, the twenty-second of January, an American pilot-boat came alongside, and soon afterwards the Britannia steam-packet, from Liverpool, eighteen days out, was telegraphed at Boston.
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He imitates people being ill on board a steam-packet so well that he makes you die of laughing: his uncle the Bishop could not resist this comic exhibition, and gave Fred a cheque for a comfortable sum of money; and Fred, getting cash for the cheque at the Cave of Harmony, imitated his uncle the Bishop and his Chaplain, winding up with his Lordship and
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Mahony remained at the Hotel till the following afternoon, then walked to Geelong and took the steam-packet to Melbourne.
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By way of precaution, Michael Strogoff went first to the office of the steam-packet company, and there made sure that the Caucasus would start at the appointed hour.
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A heavy rain made this mode of travelling now incommodious; so we embarked in a steam-packet, and after a short passage landed at Portsmouth.
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Purdy, who had discreetly concealed the fact that he was but a poverty-stricken digger himself, quibbled a light evasion, then changed the subject, and offered his escort to the steam-packet by which Miss Sarah was returning to Melbourne.
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_ -- I rose early, for the steam-packet from Corfu had arrived in the night, and, lo! all the passengers who quitted us at
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833
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I have beheld between Islandavanna and the abortive ocean steam-packet port of Foynes.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
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Ashore (from steam-packet) at four in the morning.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 331, September 13, 1828
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Ancona, and, eventually, they all embarked in the steam-packet for
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833
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