steam-packet

On the next afternoon, that is to say, on Saturday, the twenty-second of January, an American pilot-boat came alongside, and soon afterwards the Britannia steam-packet, from Liverpool, eighteen days out, was telegraphed at Boston.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

He imitates people being ill on board a steam-packet so well that he makes you die of laughing: his uncle the Bishop could not resist this comic exhibition, and gave Fred a cheque for a comfortable sum of money; and Fred, getting cash for the cheque at the Cave of Harmony, imitated his uncle the Bishop and his Chaplain, winding up with his Lordship and

The Newcomes 2006

Mahony remained at the Hotel till the following afternoon, then walked to Geelong and took the steam-packet to Melbourne.

Australia Felix 2003

By way of precaution, Michael Strogoff went first to the office of the steam-packet company, and there made sure that the Caucasus would start at the appointed hour.

Michael Strogoff 2003

A heavy rain made this mode of travelling now incommodious; so we embarked in a steam-packet, and after a short passage landed at Portsmouth.

The Last Man 2003

Purdy, who had discreetly concealed the fact that he was but a poverty-stricken digger himself, quibbled a light evasion, then changed the subject, and offered his escort to the steam-packet by which Miss Sarah was returning to Melbourne.

Australia Felix 2003

_ -- I rose early, for the steam-packet from Corfu had arrived in the night, and, lo! all the passengers who quitted us at

Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 John Auldjo

I have beheld between Islandavanna and the abortive ocean steam-packet port of Foynes.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

Ashore (from steam-packet) at four in the morning.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 331, September 13, 1828 Various

Ancona, and, eventually, they all embarked in the steam-packet for

Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 John Auldjo