| 单词 | side-wheeler |
| 例句 | Passage in those days meant boarding a steam-powered side-wheeler. Forget the bridge — ditch the car and explore West Seattle on foot 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z The bones of the side-wheeler were discovered in 1988 more than a mile beneath the waves. Treasures, and Gold, in Exploration of Sunken Ship 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z The bones of the side-wheeler were discovered in 1988, nearly a mile and a half down. X Still Marks Sunken Spot, and Gold Awaits 2014-05-05T01:07:10Z The 288-foot-long side-wheeler, named the Keystone State, hit rough weather and was last seen on November 8 or 9 in 1861, Trotter said. 1861 shipwreck found in Lake Huron 2013-12-11T23:32:00Z An old side-wheeler was steaming south toward Puget Sound across the land-locked waters that lie between Vancouver Island and the state of Washington. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z He was a kind of side-wheeler, like the Mississippi River steamboats, and he could go like everything! The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z I had not thought there could be anything so grand in all the world as this little, fussy, splashing side-wheeler, to me a veritable floating palace. Pioneer Day Exercises 2011-10-19T02:00:21.770Z And on Plate 3, just up an embankment from a docked side-wheeler steamboat called the Brooklyn, he found it. A Moment in Time Preserved 163 Years, Newly Accessible 2011-05-21T22:51:55Z At last came the day to part, and with a hearty handshake from the doctor the Portneys and Fred boarded the little side-wheeler Alice, and the long homeward trip was begun. To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon The boys rapidly explored the steamboat, and found her a comfortable side-wheeler, especially built for this river work, with powerful engines and abundance of room on her lower deck for heavy cargo. The Young Alaskans on the Trail She is a side-wheeler, pretty big, with several berths and a dining-room. Young Alaskans in the Far North There we landed, on the right bank of the Mississippi, and later boarded a big side-wheeler destined for Cairo, which stopped to take us on. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Discuss the difference between a screw-steamship and a side-wheeler; a ship and a schooner. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges The first successful steamboat for commerce was, as is well known, Robert Fulton's flat-bottomed side-wheeler Clermont, which in August, 1807, made the 150 miles from New York to Albany in 32 hours. A History of Sea Power The flagship Hartford took the lead, with the Albatross lashed to her port side, next the Richmond with the Genesee, the Monongahela with the Kineo, and last the side-wheeler Mississippi alone. History of the Nineteenth Army Corps She was a side-wheeler, of course, but her paddle boxes stood as high as houses. Gold Seekers of '49 For five days we lay anchored outside, while stevedores loaded supplies from the "Bertha" on barges towed ashore by the side-wheeler "Sadie." A Woman who went to Alaska When we reflect that she was a wooden side-wheeler, not much larger than one of our tugboats, we marvel that she ever put in her appearance. Steve and the Steam Engine The Golden Star was a trim little side-wheeler with a fair-sized deck fore and aft. The Rover Boys on the Farm or Last Days at Putnam Hall Do you think I'm going to let this side-wheeler shipwreck me? Peggy Stewart at School As it came nearer it was seen that she was a side-wheeler, and was evidently crowding on all steam. Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 At last the side-wheeler "Sadie" was to leave for Nome, and what a commotion! A Woman who went to Alaska Although iron ships had gradually replaced wooden ones the side-wheeler was still in vogue, no better method of locomotion having been discovered. Steve and the Steam Engine The legs are used the same as paddles on a side-wheeler, as in the illustration. Swimming Scientifically Taught A Practical Manual for Young and Old She was a side-wheeler, and appeared to be a very handsome vessel. Fighting for the Right Latest advices: same old side-wheeler won two or three hundred same way at Flemington, some more at Paterson, and has had a little pacing circuit all to himself. The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside She was a side-wheeler, with a thin raking funnel, and was square-rigged on her fore-mast, fore-and-aft on her mizzen. Secret Bread "Certainly there are better looking steamships than this one," Steve returned, pointing with a shrug of his shoulders at the clumsy side-wheeler. Steve and the Steam Engine Down at the dock the boys found the Golden Star, a trim little side-wheeler, ready to take them up the lake. The Rover Boys in Camp or, The Rivals of Pine Island The Snapper was quite a small craft, and looked like an old vessel; for she was a side-wheeler, though she had evidently been built for a sea-going craft. Fighting for the Right She was a side-wheeler, a model which still holds favor on the lower lakes, though virtually abandoned on the ocean and on Lake Superior. American Merchant Ships and Sailors To refer to a trotter as a thoroughbred is to suffer social ostracism, and to obfuscate a side-wheeler with a single-footer is proof of degeneracy. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen Beside this was an ungainly side-wheeler with scarce a line of beauty to commend it. Steve and the Steam Engine And it was as high now as was good for this old-fashioned side-wheeler with her old-time single engine. Wide Courses Carpenter was in command of a Chinese Government despatch vessel—a side-wheeler—which was immediately under the Viceroy's orders. By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories The ferry is a primitive side-wheeler, which might carry two automobiles, but hardly more. Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" It was a government buoy-tender, an awkward side-wheeler with a derrick forward, and big red sticks and black ones lying on deck. Virginia: the Old Dominion "I see the progress all right," replied he, "but I am afraid I do not know much about Fulton and his side-wheeler." Steve and the Steam Engine "There comes a side-wheeler," I exclaimed, raising my arms upward in a slanting position, as a big liner from Yokohama entered the channel. The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks It was not long before the Golden Star, a stanch little side-wheeler, steamed up to the dock, and the waiting crowd rushed on board and secured favorable places on deck. The Rover Boys at School Following the canoe and Hudson's Bay boat, came the river barge and side-wheeler, and with these, competing for trade, the overland freighter with ox train and pack pony, with Red River cart and shagginappi. The Foreigner A Tale of Saskatchewan Their force afloat was also comparatively small: the ironclad ram Tennessee and three side-wheeler gunboats. Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray |
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