But the liners leaving for the United States were overcrowded; even the steerage was given up to cabin passengers; berths were sold by holders at a huge premium, and a group of Americans even bought a steamer, the Viking, and charged 100l.
King Humphrey said, "But nobody can possibly know that two liners will come tomorrow!
Captain Bors said curtly, "Majesty, the first of the four liners is in.
The first of your four liners will break out of overdrive in--hm--three minutes, twenty seconds.
Your government chartered four big liners to remove government officials and citizens who'll be on the Mekinese black list.
It is to be straightened and deepened, so that the largest liners are to come up to the city, as already do 2000-ton intercolonial steamers.
The remarkable immunity of the high-speed Atlantic liners from such accidents as befell the Titanic has been due in part to careful seamanship and in part to an amazing run of good luck.
Then the former German liners were brought into service and with this addition embarkations greatly increased.
Before the war German subsidized liners were permitted to come into our harbors and take on board British passengers at 'blackleg' rates, and without paying even a due share for the upkeep of our ports and lights.
There is a breakwater built on a coral reef; yet huge harbour works are in progress, and before long liners instead of lying outside will be fastened to the dock side.
Within knowledge, the depth opposite Monte Video has lessened by fifteen feet, and though dredgers are constantly at work, big liners moving up to Buenos Aires have sometimes to force a way through two feet of mud.
This boat was forced to pass the attacking vessel rather close, and an officer declared that she looked like one of the Spanish liners and her funnel was black.
The large vessel he had seen was obviously a passenger boat, but fast liners could be converted into auxiliary cruisers.
Their vessels, not so large nor so luxuriously fitted up as the Atlantic liners that ply between Europe and New York, are excellent sea boats, and commanded by careful British captains.
Yet sailor superstitions are as hard to kill even in these gorgeous up-to-date liners as it is to exterminate the rats in the hold or the cockroaches in the larder.
An Englishman is too fond of exercise to allow high pressure to get the better of him in this way, and the difference between English and American people on these liners is most marked.
Every ship that comes in view passes me by, the multifarious craft going to or from the river wharves, the great liners that tie up at Port Melbourne opposite--these last the objects that fascinate me most.
A part of the tea required for the United States reaches New York by way of the Suez Canal, but the movement is gradually changing since the building of the fast liners that now ply between Asian and American ports.
For the liners that draw more than eighteen feet the task is more difficult, inasmuch as the channel is tortuous.
The consignments are sent by swift steamships to Seattle; thence by fast express trains to New York; there they are transferred to swift linersthat take them across the Atlantic to European ports.
One of the German liners already had this complement of life-boats, though the German marine as a whole is sufficiently deficient at this point to induce the Reichstag to order an investigation.
Modern liners are so designed that they have no accommodations for more life-boats.
That ocean liners take chances with their passengers, though known to the well informed, is newly revealed and comes with a shock of surprise and dismay to most people.
MANY LINES HEAR THE CALL Other rushing liners besides the Virginian heard the call and became on the instant something more than cargo carriers and passenger greyhounds.
Orient liners make, it is true, longer voyages in quieter seas.
With more strict concentration upon commerce destruction, and further preparations for using German liners as auxiliaries, the campaign might have been prolonged and made somewhat more effective.
In large linersone loses in romance what one gains in comfort.
Your warships lie under the waves, your liners fly the flags of your enemies, your mother Rhine on either bank hears the bugles of your invaders.
In addition, the fisheries and oyster cultures of Normandy are very great; likewise the coastwise shipping, to say nothing of the trans-atlantic traffic of the great liners from the ports of Havre and Cherbourg.
Havre many travellers know as a port of embarkation or debarkation for the great Atlantic liners under the subsidy of the French government.
He gave every incentive to have his men stay at home in encouraging all kinds of factories, lake, and water ways, the building of canals, ocean liners and merchant marine.
For it was the increasing of the numbers of ocean liners and merchant marine that made German merchandise popular and well-known in most of the ports of the world.
I go on board one of the great liners which run between Australia and England, and which may be taken to represent the third great form of British industry.
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