paddle steamer

How to use paddle steamer in a sentence

• All the power expended in the production of this great stream is, in the case of the paddle-steamer, entirely lost.

  A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine | Robert H. Thurston

• A large paddle steamer was towing a barge under the bridge against the swift current as we passed over.

  Through Siberia and Manchuria By Rail | Oliver George Ready

• The wake of a passing paddle-steamer made the boat pitch gently.

  The Wind Bloweth | Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne

• We went on board the little paddle steamer and paid our "sixpence return."

  The White Peacock | D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

• Inquiring which was the "Falcon," a paddle steamer moored in the stream was pointed out to them by a boatman.

  Jack Archer | G. A. Henty