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How to use steamboats in a sentence

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In those early days she consistently outpaced her rivals including giant steamboats.
I went down by the Nieuwe Haven among old steamboats, and walked along ranks of tall houses built for wool merchants and wine shippers.
It is a fascinating read and an essential source for anyone researching early steamboats and their social milieu.
Warehouses and wharves proliferated, and steamboats and sailing vessels crowded the riverfront.
Returning to America, Fulton continued developing steamboats and naval weapons until his death.
After the Supreme Court decision, new companies immediately began to operate more up-to-date steamboats on the Hudson.
Eight city slickers had come to Montana for a six-day canoe trip down river from Fort Benton, once a frontier town of steamboats and gold miners.
Harlem, however, was primed at the turn of the 20th century with the advent of steamboats, cars and electric trains.
Brown testified to helping slaves obtain free papers and then either booking them on steamboats or helping them obtain work on the river.
Like most contemporary Hudson River steamboats, the Albany was designed to transport passengers and light freight.
The supply steamboats began to ferry all of them across to the west bank of the Missouri, where men of the Thirtieth Wisconsin Infantry were building a new post, Fort Rice.
Inside the museum, all manner of detailed models, from submarines, steamboats and trawlers to battleships, tugs and cobles, competed for best model in the various classes.
But as the decades passed, airplanes replaced steamboats and folks abandoned Old Bettles to live near the airstrip.
And Herman Goslin made his scant living by meeting the steamboats and transporting the disembarking passengers, if any, up to the hotel in a gimpy buckboard.
Although railroads made the stagecoaches, freight wagons, and steamboats unprofitable and obsolete, virtually no one mourned the passing of these conveyances.
At one time, over 300 paddlewheel steamboats plied the Delta.
At the same time costs were rising, partly due to the use of steamboats on the Mersey.
Prior to that, freight and passenger service to Mayo was only available on sternwheel steamboats in summer and horse-drawn sleighs in winter.
By August, steamboats were busily carrying away Dawsonites, eight thousand in one week alone.
The modern form of draw poker originated in the US and became a hugely popular feature of Mississippi steamboats leaving New Orleans.
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Still uneasy, he called in Surgeon cusack, who warned him against railroads and steamboats.
Since that time there have been few steamboats on that part of the River above The dalles.
There are several lines of steamboats plying between La Dorada and Barranquilla and intermediate points.
About fifty steamboats are in commission on the Magdalena and its tributary, the Cauca.
In steamboats, in hotels, it is the same, whensoever a male creature enters.
By the steamboats on the Weser there is communication with Karlshafen and Minden.
At present, they are navigable about half their length for small steamboats and bateaux.
The day of the voyageur was gone, and lines of steamboats crowded its wharf.
There was no steamboats coming to Traverse City in those days.
Send a fleet of steamboats down the Niger, and another up the Nile.
It was a cabin measuring six feet square, very much like that occupied by the pilot on the steamboats of the Mississippi or Hudson.
The last grub steamboats up from Bering Sea were stalled by low water at the beginning of the Yukon Flats hundreds of miles north of Dawson.
You see, they was mending her machinery, but I didn't know anything about it, not being very much used to steamboats.
Do they build a great many steamboats in Greenock and Glasgow?
On my passage, I paid particular attention to the direction which the steamboats took to go to Philadelphia.
To make railways and steamboats carry letters was much, in the evolution of the means of communication.
Oh, as for that, I have made inquiries respecting the diligences and steamboats, and my calculations are made.
Tarragona may be reached easily by steamboats from Barcelona.
Blinker got a pager and looked up the movements of Sunday steamboats.
From London to Suez via Mont Cenis and Brindisi, by rail and steamboats.
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