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Example sentences for "steamship"

Lexicographically close words:
steamed; steamer; steamers; steaming; steams; steamships; steamy; stearate; stearic; stearin
  1. To the Northern Pacific Express Company, and to the Northern Pacific Steamship Company, they owe many thanks for aid and courtesy.

  2. It would probably be difficult to cite an instance in which a relief vessel has arrived so opportunely anywhere as the steamship "State of Texas" arrived in Santiago de Cuba.

  3. I invited him to the steamship "State of Texas" to see Miss Barton, so that he might select such articles or service as he desired.

  4. On the ninth of August we took passage on board the steamship "Meteor," a Roumanian steamer plying between Constantinople and the ports of the Black Sea, our objective point being Costanza, at the mouth of the Danube River.

  5. I was taken by Johnson direct from the Inman Steamship pier to 65 Fifth Avenue, and met Edison for the first time.

  6. The first plant to be placed on a United States steamship was the one consisting of an Edison "Z" dynamo and one hundred and twenty eight-candle lamps installed on the Fish Commission's steamer Albatross in 1883.

  7. Fernandina is served by the Seaboard Air Line railway, and by steamship lines connecting with domestic and foreign ports; its harbour, which has the deepest water on the E.

  8. Regular steamship communications are maintained with Sydney, Auckland and Vancouver.

  9. No, sir; he didn't do it; I showed him the ticket for the steamship that I was going south the very same day and he said as long as I was going out the law didn't fit that.

  10. Also that the Kamschatka, "the largest war steamship in the world, in November, 1840, received her machinery at Jersey City.

  11. If all the steamship directors who might have used the shareholders' money to better advantage were called to account, I imagine a number of respectable gentlemen would find their occupation gone.

  12. The steamship Conference understood something like that, until Cartwright put them wise.

  13. Then managing a tramp-steamship line when freights are low is a wearing job.

  14. I venture to state no steamship company is free from embarrassments.

  15. But why are you wearing the steamship badge and sailor's clothes?

  16. The State of California belongs to the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, the others to the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company.

  17. A second objection will be that human invention and ingenuity have controlled the evolution of the steamship and engine by the perfection of newer and more efficient parts.

  18. The analogies of the steamship and the locomotive proved useful at many times during the discussion of the fact of evolution, and even in the present connection they will still be of service.

  19. The definition may be all very well as far as the machines are concerned, but, it may be asked, should a living thing like a horse or a dog be compared with the steamship or the locomotive?

  20. It was first known as Brooks Island, but was renamed by our navy department, principally on the unofficial suggestion of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, in recognition of its geographical position on the route from Hawaii to Japan.

  21. Mr. Barnum had engaged the necessary accommodations for the company on the steamship Atlantic, and their departure from England was an event of great public interest.

  22. A few months subsequent to this, I sold out my share in the steamship to Mr. Daniel Drew.

  23. In 1851 Mr. Barnum became a part owner of the steamship "North America," which he proposed to run between America and Ireland as a passenger and freight vessel.

  24. Among the national mail steamship services are the lines to the East and West Indies, Africa and the United States.

  25. In Hoboken are the piers of the North German Lloyd, the Hamburg American, the Netherlands American, the Scandinavian and the Phoenix steamship lines.

  26. The only man I ever met, to whom I might compare Rosine, was my lamented friend Francis Humphries, engineer of the Great Western Steamship Company.

  27. But to return to my correspondence with the Great Western Steamship Company.

  28. Caius embarked on the little steamship that afternoon, and the next noon found him at home.

  29. The steamship did not start for Souris until the afternoon.

  30. Company flag of the Union Steamship Company, of Southampton, while Fig.

  31. In the flag of the Demerara and Berbice Steamship Company the upper and lower portions are white, and the two side portions red; in the flag of the vessels belonging to Galbraith, Pembroke and Co.

  32. The steamship soon went down the river and the friends and relatives of the departing passengers began to leave the pier.

  33. Gone down to the steamship dock for my trunk.

  34. When they drew near the Cunard steamship dock, Old King Brady carried his handkerchief in his hand as a signal.

  35. Telegraph lines connect Loango with Brazzaville and Libreville, there is telegraphic communication with Europe by submarine cable, and steamship communication between Loango and Libreville and Marseilles, Bordeaux, Liverpool and Hamburg.

  36. Konakry is a port of call for French, British and German steamship companies, and is in telegraphic communication with Europe.

  37. Mr. Howbridge had taken Luke Shepard's advice, and had booked passage on the steamship Horridole from the port of Boston.

  38. It was surprising, too, what a number of things there were to see while the steamship ploughed southward.

  39. This is a rich steamship line; but profits won't stand many such passengers as you are proving to be.

  40. If they have used her name as patroness because her father is a big man, as they say he is, in the steamship company, it is not her fault.

  41. Circling seabirds flew high above them, for, after all, the route the steamship followed to the West Indies was never far from shore.

  42. Some of this knowledge "spilled over," as Neale said, at the cabin concert, without which no pleasant steamship voyage would be complete.

  43. I have an idea from studying your chart, Neale, that we have been driven far off any steamship course," said the lawyer.

  44. The first tenders of aid from abroad came from foreign steamship companies and later several foreign governments expressed a desire to contribute.

  45. After recovering from the Panama fever I took passage on the steamship "Golden Gate" for San Francisco.

  46. Philadelphia and New York City, where we took steamship for our long journey of 4,000 miles to our intended home at Victoria, Vancouver Island.

  47. I took passage on steamship Republic for Victoria.

  48. This newspaper arranged with some of the leading transatlantic steamship lines to furnish weather reports by wireless from their vessels, and these reports were published in its columns for several months.

  49. A revival of shipbuilding, and particularly of iron steamship building, is of vast importance to our national prosperity.

  50. During the last few years several steamship owners have so far overcome their prejudices as to take apprentices.

  51. And he exhibited a steamship card with the name of a steamer upon it and the name of Archibald Archer written in the blank space underneath.


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