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In Chapter Five, the steamboat's captain takes center stage - explaining what's become of his fortune since the Civil War, and perhaps making a few too many apologies for his alcohol habits.

Free Kittens and other Nice Things 2006

It means decay, and the kind of loss you feel when that steamboat's carcass is washed up on the rocks, or tumbleweed drifts through a ghost town.

The Rain Man Of Santa Monica 2008

A picture of the steamboat's wheel appeared underneath.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

To behold five or six tables in a steamboat's cabin, with half-a-dozen men playing at cards, and money, pistols, bowie-knives, &c. all in confusion on the tables, is what may be seen at almost any time on the Mississippi river.

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life 1953

At times she heaved gently, as some wave of larger proportions than usual came in from the river, possibly caused by a passing steamboat's suction.

Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie Louis Arundel

The action that had extorted the admiration of the aged seaman was a rope that had been thrown over the steamboat's bulwarks.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 22, 1891 Various

From a distance there came over the water, as they listened, the rapid beat of a steamboat's paddles, and soon there arose again the long, shrill yell of the steam whistle.

Lost in the Fog James De Mille

Every minute I expected to hear the sound of the steamboat's whistle at the point announcing her arrival.

A Pirate of Parts Richard Neville

Last night, after a hard day's work, (our guns and the remainder of our tents being just issued,) an order came from Beaufort that we should be ready in the evening to unload a steamboat's cargo of boards, being some of those captured by them a few weeks since, and now assigned for their use.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

Not a steamboat's stacks, blackening in the gloom, broke the peaceful glitter of the river under the stars.

The River and I John G. Neihardt 1927