"Side-wheel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... more tortuous and more incumbered with projecting branches and drifting wood. No piloting less skilful than that of Corporal Sutton and his mate, James Bezzard, could have carried us through, I thought; and no side-wheel steamer less strong than a ferry-boat could have borne the crash and force with which we struck the wooded banks of the river. But the powerful paddles, built to break the Northern ice, could crush the Southern pine as well; ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 • Various
... slang. You know every side-wheel steamer has a statement of her destination painted on her wheel house. I meant to ask what ...
— A Captain in the Ranks - A Romance of Affairs • George Cary Eggleston |
