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  • It started subtly, then ratcheted up, up, higher, until it sounded like a wagon full of tin pans rolling unsteered down a bumpy hill.

    Strange Noises In The Bedroom 2004

  • It started subtly, then ratcheted up, up, higher, until it sounded like a wagon full of tin pans rolling unsteered down a bumpy hill.

    Veniceblog: 2004

  • A great awe came on all as they realised that the ship, as if by a miracle, had found the harbour, unsteered save by the hand of a dead man!

    The Deadlocked City Elon, Amos 2001

  • Up I got, was welcomed almost instantly by another cloud of spray, but this time stuck to my purpose; and set myself, with all my strength and caution, to paddle after the unsteered _Hispaniola_.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • A great awe came on all as they realised that the ship, as if by a miracle, had found the harbour, unsteered save by the hand of a dead man!

    Dracula 1897

  • Now that ship would not have sailed, without a steersman; and do you suppose that this great universe drifts unsteered and uncontrolled?

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

  • Up I got, was welcomed almost instantly by another cloud of spray, but this time stuck to my purpose and set myself, with all my strength and caution, to paddle after the unsteered Hispaniola.

    Treasure Island 1883

  • A great awe came on all as they realised that the ship, as if by a miracle, had found the harbour, unsteered save by the hand of a dead man!

    Dracula Bram Stoker 1879

  • Not until that moment did he realize that he was in control of the tiller, and that for the last three minutes, the galley had been cutting over the blue seas unsteered.

    Mr. Midshipman Easy Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848 1873

  • Up I got, was welcomed almost instantly by another cloud of spray, but this time stuck to my purpose and set myself with all my strength and caution to paddle after the unsteered _Hispaniola_.

    Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

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