canalboat

Kings are out of date: communication by canalboat is out of date; an aristocracy is out of date, none more so than a male aristocracy.

Nora Stanton Blatch, engineer and feminist 2010

Kings are out of date: communication by canalboat is out of date; an aristocracy is out of date, none more so than a male aristocracy.

Nora Stanton Blatch, engineer and feminist 2010

He also visits a ship steering school in Port Revel, France, and he and his son-in-law recreate a canalboat trip taken by Henry David Thoreau and his brother John in 1839.

Archive 2006-09-01 ricklibrarian 2006

He also visits a ship steering school in Port Revel, France, and he and his son-in-law recreate a canalboat trip taken by Henry David Thoreau and his brother John in 1839.

Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee ricklibrarian 2006

A few years ago, I spent 10 days on a canalboat, we ate at pubs along the way and didn't have a bad bite ... and a few remarkable ones.

Buttermilk Cinnamon Scones 2006

So it was arranged for him to go the whole way by canalboat and tug, instead, and as he came up the bay and into the East River, he saw the bridge for the first time in three years.

The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972

He was invited to a party the guiding idea of which was to charter a canalboat in Newcastle, Pennsylvania, and glide through Bucks County watching the south end of the mule head north along the towpath (or was it the north end heading south?), lallygagging around under the awning away from the gassy streets of the metropolitan summer.

The Fourth Side of the Triangle Queen, Ellery 1965

The pair at the end where the water was high would open and the canalboat would float in the Lock and rest there for a while like a ship in harbour.

Half-Past Seven Stories Robert Gordon Anderson

Shoe, only the shoe must have grown into a canalboat.

Half-Past Seven Stories Robert Gordon Anderson

He waved to them and they waved back, but they didn't know they were waving to their old playmate Marmaduke, he was so mixed up with all the children of the woman who lived on the canalboat that looked just like a shoe.

Half-Past Seven Stories Robert Gordon Anderson