It looked like a house at first, but then we realized it was a steamboat.
Trade up the Hudson river was controlled by an aristocratic elite with pretensions to secure a steamboat monopoly.
Today, they have all come home and tomorrow night, we plan to have two tables of "steamboat" at the Chaozhou restaurant in Old Town, to celebrate. But no one outside the immediate family will be invited.
The steamboat could sail upriver, against the flow.
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck.
He was eating an apple, and giving a long, melodious whoop, at intervals, followed by a deep-toned ding-dong-dong, ding-dong-dong, for he was personating a steamboat.
The steamboat is not widely in use now.
He adopt his pen name from the cry heard in his steamboat days, signaling two fathoms (12feet) of water-a navigable depth.
The steamboat sails on Sundays and Wednesdays.
At the age of 21, Sam returned to the river to realize an old ambition, that of being a Mississippi River steamboat pilot.
Old photographs of the Moscow subway stations, the city of Ufa and a steamboat cruise.
Some passengers are sitting on the deck of the large steamboat chatting.
It took three weeks for Grant's men to reach the steamboat landing. The roads were very rough.
The steamboat ascended the river.
Why not we have steamboat?
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