What is "steamboats"

Usage examples of "steamboats".

So in the midst of the attempt to order the steamboats into a convoy for the passage upstream, two big rowboats swung out into the river, with six men pulling at the oars of each and another dozen or so under arms, many of them foolishly standing up and huzzahing their own bravado.

The Mississippi receives and carries to the Gulf water from fifty-four subordinate rivers that are navigable by steamboats, and from some hundreds that are navigable by flats and keels.

The outsiders began to ground steamboats, sink them, and get into all sorts of trouble, whereas accidents seemed to keep entirely away from the association men.

Half a dozen sound-asleep steamboats where I used to see a solid mile of wide-awake ones!

Half a dozen lifeless steamboats, a mile of empty wharves, a negro fatigued with whiskey stretched asleep, in a wide and soundless vacancy, where the serried hosts of commerce used to contend!

A farmer who lived on the Illinois shore there, said that twenty-nine steamboats had left their bones strung along within sight from his house.

Chapter 27 Some Imported Articles WE met two steamboats at New Madrid.

Strung along below the city, were a number of decayed, ram-shackly, superannuated old steamboats, not one of which had I ever seen before.

Plenty of Americans and Yankees and Englishmen were taking ship out of the cityAmericans in steamboats up the river.

The steamboats pulled out on schedule, and there was no danger of collision.