steam-ships

See if I ever journey to the Belgian Congo on one of their steam-ships again!

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The voyage was rather a lazy one, the ship not being moved by steam; for at the time of which I am speaking, some five years ago, steam-ships were not so plentiful as now.

Lavengro 2004

They were terrifying, these calls given forth by the great blind steam-ships.

Pierre And Jean 2003

Oh, and you will not forget to mention the steam-ships?

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Oh, and you will not forget to mention the steam-ships?

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

In the mean time, we hear from France nothing but a cry for steam-ships, and threats of invasion.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various

The State has contracts with the principal lines of steam-ships, securing regular despatch, a minimum temperature, and a very low rate of freight for the British markets.

Australia, The Dairy Country Australia. Dept. of External Affairs

England is at this moment building two hundred steam-ships, with guns of a calibre to which all the past were trifling, with room for a regiment of land troops besides their crews, and with the known power of defying wind and wave, and throwing an army in full equipment for the field, within a few days, on any coast of Europe.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various

Aden, the supply of coals for the steam-ships has introduced a new trade; gangs of brawny Seedies, negroes from the Zanzibar coast, but fortunately enfranchised, make a livelihood by transferring the coal from the depots on shore to the steamers.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

The formation of a new route between India and Europe by the Red Sea -- a route, though well known to the ancient world, yet wholly incapable of adoption by any but an Arab horseman, from the perpetual tumults of the country -- compelled England to look for a resting-place and depot for her steam-ships at the mouth of the Red Sea.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various