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Pearl acted as hostess to a steady stream of international visitors, who landed in Shanghai and stopped off to inspect the department at Nanjing before going on by train north to Beijing or west by Yangtse river-boat into the interior.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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Pearl acted as hostess to a steady stream of international visitors, who landed in Shanghai and stopped off to inspect the department at Nanjing before going on by train north to Beijing or west by Yangtse river-boat into the interior.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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Twain hadn't yet adopted his pen name when, at age 25, the Missourian abandoned his job as a river-boat pilot as the Civil War turned the Mississippi into a war zone.
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Twain hadn't yet adopted his pen name when, at age 25, the Missourian abandoned his job as a river-boat pilot as the Civil War turned the Mississippi into a war zone.
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Twain hadn't yet adopted his pen name when, at age 25, the Missourian abandoned his job as a river-boat pilot as the Civil War turned the Mississippi into a war zone.
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Each of the 30-odd state rooms -- Pandaw boats can carry about 60 passengers -- has a ship-like efficiency that displays more river-boat charisma than five-star hotel lavishness.
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"After that, whites took care of me, priests," he said, but in a precursor of later disputes, he found their strict regime stifling, and left at 12 or 13, travelling up and down the Congo river as a river-boat mechanic and part-time musician.
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And after a long romance with those river-boat gamblers on the Right, they are finally ready to hear something sensible from our side.
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Mining was my branch, but I had a good general training, and I know enough to run a river-boat.
Greenmantle 2005
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Ernesto and Alberto travel on a river-boat to the San Pablo Leper Colony.
justinker Diary Entry justinker 2005
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