1 This steamboat was exactly like a decked scow.
2 I don't pretend to say that steamboat floated all the time.
3 We filled the steamboat with it, and had to pile a lot on the deck.
4 Three carriers could have brought all that was wanted to set that steamboat afloat.
5 And I didn't do badly either, since I managed not to sink that steamboat on my first trip.
6 The glimpse of the steamboat had for some reason filled those savages with unrestrained grief.
7 She was determined to make no end of fuss to get me appointed skipper of a river steamboat, if such was my fancy.
8 I became aware that the two were standing on the shore alongside the forepart of the steamboat, just below my head.
9 It was a great comfort to turn from that chap to my influential friend, the battered, twisted, ruined, tin-pot steamboat.
10 He stood before the wide opening, glaring, and I yelled at him to come back, while I straightened the sudden twist out of that steamboat.
11 I went forward, and ordered the chain to be hauled in short, so as to be ready to trip the anchor and move the steamboat at once if necessary.
12 It was very pretty to see how he baffled himself, for in truth my body was full of chills, and my head had nothing in it but that wretched steamboat business.
13 He steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk, and would let that cripple of a steamboat get the upper hand of him in a minute.
14 Trees, trees, millions of trees, massive, immense, running up high; and at their foot, hugging the bank against the stream, crept the little begrimed steamboat, like a sluggish beetle crawling on the floor of a lofty portico.
15 After work hours he used sometimes to come over from his hut for a talk about his children and his pigeons; at work, when he had to crawl in the mud under the bottom of the steamboat, he would tie up that beard of his in a kind of white serviette he brought for the purpose.