After a while, when I couldn't get to sleep, I got up and went out on the deck and sat in one of the big steamer chairs.

A fire was blazing in the grate; a dressing-case, a steamer trunk and a hatbox were set out at the foot of the bedstead.

They stood aside to let it pass, and its occupant, carefully wrapped in a great steamer-rug, glanced up at them with a quizzical light in his eyes.

The few connected with the mission and the two fur companies are necessarily busy people, the latter especially so on steamer days, but a deep, unbroken peacefulness permeates the island and its people; it is a place so apart that outside happenings awaken but little interest, and time is not weighed in the balance.

The aeroplane had been shipped to New York, to be put upon a steamer sailing for Maracaibo, in Venezuela, and which they expected to take also.

With comparatively little expenditure the company or the Government can improve the facilities along the line so that any amount of freight or any number of passengers can be taken into the gold region at less than half the time and cost that it takes Americans to reach it from Port St. Michael, at the mouth of the Yukon to the Klondyke, exclusive of the steamer trip of 2500 miles from Seattle to Port St. Michael.

In less than twenty minutes the steamer whistle shrieked.

The tourist who has embarked for the British Isles lands usually at Liverpool, Fishguard, or Plymouth, whence a special steamer-train takes him in a few hours to London.

Within easy reach of Ambleside are Coniston village and lake, upon which a little steamer plies.

He sneaked down to the gravelly shore a little above the steamer pier, and hid himself between the piles, glancing around him in a scared fashion.

From this he took a great stride forward, and became first officer on the iron-clad steamer plying between Charlottetown and the mainland.

One steamer sails every twelfth day from Portland to Seattle.

Here is a steamer ticket.

Most of the time I live a few kilometers from Papeete, toward Fa'a, and come in to town about steamer-time.

She sat upon steamer decks and drew crags and castles, or she mounted upon donkeys and descended to ancient robber towers, attended by her two escorts, Georgie and Dobbin.

The ordinary fibre trunk is good for rail and steamer travel, but it is absolutely unpractical for mule-back or canoe.

"He pays his rent regularly every steamer night," she said, quietly, as if dismissing an exhausted subject, "and he'll be here in a moment, I dare say."

Steamer she was, too, right in the steamer-lanes.

When the steward had left him, Jimmie pinned the two letters upon the pillow, changed the steamer-cap for an Alpine hat, and beneath a rain-coat concealed his evening clothes.

This famous poem, a "steamer-letter" as it were, is undated, but it may well be a continuation of the Brundisian diary.

She looked away from him, out across the steamer rail.

It turned out that the pert little youth was not an authorized pilot, but merely schooling for it; and that, when the steamer hove in sight, the true pilots were asleep, and he would not allow them to be called, but quietly slipped away in the boat, and came on board of us to try his 'prentice hand; the pilots of New York are, I believe, a most able and efficient body of men.

" Ere he'd done speaking, Jeannie was no more; She'd dash'd into the waves, and left no clue, More than a steamer leaves just left the Nore, By which you might discover where she lay, And drag her upwards to the realms of day.

Kit felt the steamer lift and turn, as if on a pivot at the middle of her length.

Of sufficient importance to have a railroad, as well as a steamer line, Deepdale was well provided with transportation facilities.