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Usage examples of paddlewheel.

Though there was a canopy of sorts over the paddlewheel and its mechanisms, the hail came sailing and it bounced under the canopy and whacked Jonathan and Dooly on the head and back.

An inch of ice crusted the low spots on the deck, and the seats in front of the paddlewheel were covered with frost.

The rafters clambered for an explanation as they poled back out into the Oriel and pedaled furiously to get the paddlewheel going.

In the desert north of Arica, Chile, many miles from the ocean, Paul once came across the ruins of the Watree, a nineteenth-century American Naval Paddlewheel steamer.

The splashing of the twin paddlewheels had slackened to near-silence, and the boat drifted forward with agonizing slowness.

Some adventurous ones had already found the huge paddlewheels on the sides wonderful devices to climb on, and were swarming on them, climbing, laughing, falling or jumping back into the water.

Pitt pointed to the walking beam mounted above the high A-frame that tilted up and down, one end driven by a connecting rod from the steam cylinder, the other driving the crank that turned the paddlewheel.

But the Professor, insisting that the entire valley was falling to ruin about them, thought it best to crank up the paddlewheel.

Its breadth over the paddleboxes, or paddlewheel guards, was 115 feet.