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steerage sentence examples

  • Approaching salter's lode lock somewhat fast to get steerage, as going with a serious flood tide.
  • Steerage hoes without the need for hand labor.
  • It has the advantage that it can be operated under moister soil conditions than a tractor steerage hoe.
  • My recollection of meeting these boats was that they where always going like a bat out of hell to maintain steerage.
  • Steerage passengers the fell disease was represented in the person of a little boy.
  • Traveling steerage; sitting on hard wooden train seats; walking miles and miles and sleeping where they fell in tiredness.
  • Steerage class.
  • Steerage passage, good enough for me.
  • Steerage way.

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