river-steamer

Serval and others, in “Le Pionnier” river-steamer, give it an average breadth of 8,200 feet, though broken by sand-banks and islands; the depth in the main channel, which at times is narrow and difficult to find, averages between sixteen and forty-eight feet; and, in the dry season of 1862, the vessel ran up sixty English miles.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

White horses were curling the broad waters of Ontario, as the huge river-steamer "St. Michael" was getting up the steam for its run to

Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

_ We spent the greater part of the day transferring freight and baggage to the _Cosmopolitan_, a white river-steamer.

Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson

He compared the "fire-boat" with the size of his _hnau_, he compared it with a river-steamer which now went puffing past, he described it with the greatest minuteness, for he had lain beside it at Bhamo for three days on the trip before last.

Jack Haydon's Quest John Finnemore

Despite his monied leisure and his new house, Me Dain was already bored by the quiet life of his native village, where nothing happened save that a river-steamer selling goods called once a week.

Jack Haydon's Quest John Finnemore

The estancia was a snug little place, amply watered by a river lying some miles above the last port where the small river-steamer called.

Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

At the time of his going both Wuhu and Nanking, two cities on the Yangtsze, were still in the hands of the rebels, and the river-steamer captain warned his passengers that the ship would stop at Wuhu to get her papers from them.

Sir Robert Hart Bredon, Juliet 1910

It was in fact near upon the end of February that the river-steamer plying between the settlement and the coast of Matanga brought to Drake and Fielding an announcement that the marriage had taken place.

The Philanderers 1906

He had heard the sailor on the river-steamer calling out the mark on the plumb-line.

The Hungry Stones and Other Stories Rabindranath Tagore 1901

A girl hard pressed by her lover shouted shamelessly, 'Ah, get away, you beast!' and a shift of the same wind that had opened the fog drove across Dick's face the black smoke of a river-steamer at her berth below the wall.

The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900