Steamboats in example sentence

It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats.

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It was a cabin measuring six feet square and closely resembling those occupied by the helmsmen of steamboats on the Mississippi or Hudson rivers.

We and our fathers before us lived much the same life, but they with their railway trains and their steamboats belong to a different age.

Here is the estimate made by the Daily Telegraph:From London to Suez via Mont Cenis and Brindisi, by rail and steamboats .................7 days From Suez to Bombay, by steamer ....................13 " From Bombay to Calcutta, by rail ...................3 " From Calcutta to Hong Kong, by steamer .............13 " From Hong Kong to Yokohama (Japan), by steamer .....6 " From Yokohama to San Francisco, by steamer .........22 " From San Francisco to New York, by rail .............7 " From New York to London, by steamer and rail ........9 " ------ Total ............................................80 days."

Alongside them were clippers of all sizes, steamers of all nationalities, and the steamboats, with several decks rising one above the other, which ply on the Sacramento and its tributaries.

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