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Usage examples of steerage.

And in steerage, his fingers wandering across the keyboard of the battered theremin, no one noticed that the man they called the Minstrel had lit his cigarette without a match.

Below that was steerage, which was for migrating thetes, and for sky-girls, prostitutes of the air.

Where Bart had been born into the best quarters of The Home, son of a zerker Pack Leader, Dyfid had been born to a field hand in steerage, and he took food very seriously.

The USS Billfish cruised slowly northeast at four knots, bare steerage way, at a depth of 658 feet.

Instead of being popped into a lightless steerage cabin far below the deck of a sinking ocean liner or into the path of a superheated pyroclastic cloud rushing down the slope of an erupting volcano at almost the speed of sound, he had been eased into a slowly evolving Event.

I closed in to the cliffs, the engine ticking over just fast enough to give me steerage away.

As was customary aboard a whaleship, the food served in the forecastle (where the blacks lived) had been a grade below the miserable fare that had been served to the boatsteerers and young Nantucketers in steerage.

Sharpe thought of Malachi Braithwaite and was grateful that the secretary was mewed up in the steerage where he could not add to his suspicions of Sharpe and Lady Grace.

Assuming we don't lose the steerage engines, some minor corrections as we approach Alpha Cygni might be possible.

At 9,300 tons it was not a small vessel and the Bo'sun had had engine revolutions reduced until the ship had barely steerage way on, but still she was in trouble and the causes for this lay neither in the size of the ship, nor the size of the seas, for normally the San Andreas could have ridden out the storm without much difficulty.

The courtroom looked like the steerage class of an old banana boat.

He left behind an engineering problem Nikko had given him: how to channel a final burn through the steerage engines, now that their throats had been dissolved by the encroaching Chenzeme tissue?

The social and technological dynamics meant what was, would be, foreseeably, for fifty, a hundred years, and its planning was always well in advance, a simple steerage of the world at large, atevi and human, toward matching technological bases, toward goals decades away.

Besides the captain-a disreputable old wreck who reeked of tobacco-thc Sally Ann had a single hand, an elderly black freedman who was dealing alone with the steerage of our craft, by means of a large pole.

On the courser's farside, steerage jets that had not existed a moment before were blazing now in sudden, asynchronous fury, a lateral line of fire driving the vessel sideways toward Null Boundary.