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  • Emery had learned his rivercraft from beaver trappers and bootleggers.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • Emery had learned his rivercraft from beaver trappers and bootleggers.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • Summers on the Thames Recapture bygone summer days down by the river at Henley-on-Thames, where Bonhams holds its annual daylong auction Saturday of nostalgic rivercraft, ship models, peaceful Thames views and anglers 'mounted trophy catches.

    Bonhams Sale to Recall 2008

  • The only boats showing any activity were half-a-dozen rivercraft, stout one - and two-masted vessels that had put in briefly on their way upriver or down.

    Lord of Chaos Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1994

  • At last Garcia climbed into the rivercraft where Getulio already waited.

    River Of Desire Taylor, Abra 1982

  • As the plane could land no closer to the place where Luis Quental had founded his clinic, the party was to be met here and transported by rivercraft for the balance of the journey, a matter of a few miles.

    River Of Desire Taylor, Abra 1982

  • The river was busy with barges, wherries, and low-masted rivercraft.

    Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

  • He passed a doorway with a neat legend: port of london authority and another with old-fashioned lettering: camperdown and carboys rivercraft company.demurrage. wharfage. inquirries.

    Killer Dolphin Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1966

  • Get every thing that floats below the bridge: we shall have quite enough rivercraft coming down adrift anyhow, without letting the stone-boats ram the piers.

    The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • A crowd of rivercraft are generally moored in front of it; but, if we look sharply at the right moment under the base of the rampart, we may catch a glimpse of an arched water-entrance, half submerged, past which the Thames glides as indifferently as if it were the mouth of a city-kennel.

    Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

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