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Example sentences for "small steamer"

  • Again we are delayed to unload and this time into a small steamer the Lagoon--for the ship is still too deep in the water to cross the bar.

  • Dzamba is a transit port where cargoes are transhipped from canoes into a small steamer the Milz which plies between it and Buta the capital of Uele.

  • As fast as a little space was cleared, a small steamer went in, and with dredge and steam-capstan hauled out the obstructions.

  • His vessel was a small steamer, mounting one heavy gun amidships and two smaller cannon on each side.

  • We could go on a small steamer as far as Ismailia and thence by rail to Cairo, and if we wished to take a detour to Suez, there was no law to prevent our going there.

  • The only thing left for us was to take a small steamer of the Austrian Lloyd's that was to leave next day and might get us to Smyrna in season to catch the Tibre.

  • It has a harbour at the mouth of the Buller, and here I watched trucks being unloaded into the hold of a small steamer.

  • Okarito is like other west coast harbours, in having a bar, which, in stormy weather, makes it impossible for even a small steamer to enter or leave the port.

  • They took a small steamer along in sections from Zanzibar, and successfully floated the first steam craft on the bosom of the great lake.

  • There is a small steamer on this lake--as also on Victoria and Tanganyika.

  • As our Vivi Station is at the highest point of small steamer navigation, so Isangala is the lowest point of the middle passage of the Congo from Isangala, eighty-eight miles to Manyanga.

  • He looked something like the officer whom he personated, who was to command a small steamer in the gulf.

  • In New York they got up a plan to obtain a small steamer, about the size of the Bronx," continued Christy.

  • The Sphinx was in sight, not half a mile distant, with a small steamer on each side of her.

  • We had one man killed in small steamer, and one wounded; in the fort we had two wounded, and one man was wounded by bursting of rocket tube at Omdurman.

  • Small steamer Husseinyeh will be completed to-morrow, I hope.

  • Small steamer’s trial trip took place to-day—a great success; she snorts terribly.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    because even; small arms; small book; small building; small children; small cottage; small flocks; small garden; small girl; small groups; small handful; small island; small matter; small minority; small nations; small pinch; small post; small ship; small telescope; small things; small tributary; small tube; small wonder; small wooden; smaller size; sweetish taste