7 examples of stern-wheel in sentences
His opinion was that it might be navigable for small stern-wheel steamers for many miles.
Reading his work is, on the whole, like examining the antiquated model of a stern-wheel steamer; it is interesting for its undeveloped possibilities rather than for its achievement.
The little place trembled night and day, for the steamer's engines were just beneath them, and immediately behind them thundered the great stern-wheel of the packet.
The "Washtenong," a small steamer with a stern-wheel, in due time carried us up.
Some miles below the ranch-house the party met us, on a stern-wheel steamboat and a launch, both decked with many flags.
From St. Paul to a point forty miles below, only the lightest of the "stern-wheel" boats could make any headway.
Drawing the artificial bugs across and slightly up stream over the mirrored bosom of a pool is apt to leave a wake behind them which may not inaptly be compared with the one created by a small stern-wheel steamer; an unnatural condition of things, but of such is a trout's make-up.