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- noun Plural form of
steerage .
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Examples
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Packed into steerages with next to no sanitation, it was no wonder so many, especially women and small children, didn't survive the voyage.
Did McCain Plan To Unveil New Economic Proposals Today? Depends Which McCain Adviser You Ask 2009
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He had worked for many hours on a letter to Istra in which he avoided mention of such indecent matters as steerages and immigrants.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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We are peculiarly subject in our great ports to the spread of infectious diseases by reason of the fact that unrestricted immigration brings to us out of European cities, in the overcrowded steerages of great steamships, a large number of persons whose surroundings make them the easy victims of the plague.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.
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He had worked for many hours on a letter to Istra in which he avoided mention of such indecent matters as steerages and immigrants.
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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He had worked for many hours on a letter to Istra in which he avoided mention of such indecent matters as steerages and immigrants.
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This leprous plague, this offspring of crowded and dirty tenements and of foul ship-steerages, seemed doubly unholy here in the clean sanity of the hills.
Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West Hamlin Garland 1900
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Rumours and legends were current in the steerages about his antecedents.
Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Away abaft the engines and below the officers 'cabins, to complete our survey of the vessel, there is yet a third nest of steerages, labelled 4 and 5.
Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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The second cabin, to return, is thus a modified oasis in the very heart of the steerages.
Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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His taste was for the society of gentlemen, of whom, with the reader's permission, there was no lack in our five steerages and second cabin; and he avoided the rough and positive with a girlish shrinking.
Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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