steamers

Mediterranean in English steamers, in the same way as these were brought from Malta to Gibraltar in the Prometheus — as, forsooth, servants and passengers.

Travels in Morocco 2003

One of the Baddock steamers is leaving for Buenos Ayres the same afternoon, and I can arrange with the captain.

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard 1912

You creatures of to-day, approaching it in one of your clumsy new-fashioned fire-driven canoes that you call steamers, must admire immensely its conical peak, as it stands out silhouetted against the glowing horizon in the deep red glare of a sub-tropical Atlantic sunset.

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

They go part of the way in English steamers, and the ten or twelve dollars they pay for passage is about all the trip costs.

The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1872

They go part of the way in English steamers, and the ten or twelve dollars they pay for passage is about all the trip costs.

The Innocents Abroad — Volume 01 Mark Twain 1872

Men do not doff their hats in the down-town elevators which brought her up to the big office where she was employed, a great room near the top of one of the high down-town buildings; the windows looked out on the river, now a white mass of down-flowing ice, through which the calling steamers worked their way laboriously towards the harbour, to the Statue of Liberty standing beside what now looked a white gravel path of entry to the city.

Impressions of a War Correspondent George Lynch

Steamed coconut and rice dumplings: A desert that we’ve found here cooked in steamers at the market place.

2005 January « Mad Dave and Lil 2005

Steamed coconut and rice dumplings: A desert that we’ve found here cooked in steamers at the market place.

What’s to eat? « Mad Dave and Lil 2005

Here I refer to the soft shell bivalves known as "steamers."

Robert Rosenthal: One Woman's Disgusting Clam Is Another Man's Pleasure To Eat Robert Rosenthal 2011

Here I refer to the soft shell bivalves known as "steamers."

Robert Rosenthal: One Woman's Disgusting Clam Is Another Man's Pleasure To Eat Robert Rosenthal 2011