Through the day Luis made a point of meeting each incoming river-craft at the dock, leaving Toni no opportunity to approach the outsiders in private. ❋ Taylor, Abra (1982)
Why, he wondered idly, do river-craft set up gaggles of hooting all at once? ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1966)
This magnificent water-course, permitting the ascent of the largest ships for a hundred miles, and of river-craft for fifty miles farther, has upon its eastern side a country averaging about thirty miles in width to the Taconic range, consisting chiefly of the richest grazing, grain, and orchard land in the Atlantic States. ❋ Various (N/A)
As we slowly drifted our way into the city at dusk of a long June evening, on board that little slow-going canal and river-craft from ❋ Unknown (N/A)
A crowd of river-craft are generally moored in front of it; but if we look sharply at the right moment under the base of the rampart, we may catch a glimpse of an arched water-entrance, half submerged, past which the ❋ Various (N/A)
Dull, brief whistles of river-craft came to her; under the full leafage of trees on the Drive green omnibuses lumbered; baby carriages, each with its attendant, were motionless in the shade. ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)
It was pleasant to smoke in the shade and watch the varied river-craft slipping by. ❋ Kermit Roosevelt (1916)
The great requisite for transports on the Tigris was a very light draft, and to fill the requirements boats were requisitioned ranging from penny steamers of the Thames to river-craft of the Irrawaddy. ❋ Kermit Roosevelt (1916)
Arrived at the Ohio, the emigrant either engaged passage on some form of river-craft or set to work to construct with his own hands a vessel that would bear him and his belongings to the promised land. ❋ Frederic Austin Ogg (1914)
The styles of river-craft that appeared on the Ohio and other western streams in the great era of river migration make a remarkable pageant. ❋ Frederic Austin Ogg (1914)
It was still so early that, in the whole stretch of rollicking, tumbling, buoyant waters between bank and bank, only one piece of river-craft could be seen. ❋ Victoria Cross (1910)
Get everything that floats below the bridge: we shall have quite enough river-craft coming down adrift anyhow, without letting the stone-boats ram the piers. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
From the city to the Roads where the Great Eastern lay, ten miles below, the waters of Norfolk harbor were alive with river-craft, crowding all sails and decked in their best bunting, firing small cannon and waving salutes. ❋ Unknown (1899)
The "prize money," the hope of which cheers up the man-o'-wars-man in his dreariest hours, amounted to nothing; for their prizes were small row-boats and worthless river-craft. ❋ Willis J. Abbot (1898)
It was long remembered how, on those summer evenings, he would take his stand in the balcony of the old court-house in Market Street, and how every syllable from his wonderful voice would be heard aboard the river-craft moored at the foot of the street, four hundred feet away. ❋ 1830-1907 (1897)
The estuaries into which they flow are usually navigable for river-craft. ❋ Unknown (1895)
The Lady of Shalott's boat was no doubt of the latest and neatest trim, fully up to her drowsy date; and as for quaintness, no doubt a couple of hundred years hence, when our river-craft may be cigar-shaped torpedoes of aluminium for all ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)
This river-craft was a double-decker, propelled by oars from the lower deck. ❋ Augustus Hopkins Strong (1878)
Black-hulked, red-illumined Liverpool steamers, gay river-craft and ships of every sail and flag, filled the stream athwart which the ferries sped their swift traffic-laden shuttles; a lower town hung to the foot of the rock, and crept, populous and picturesque, up its sides; from the massive citadel on its crest flew the red banner of Saint ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
The Goths viewed with especial amazement their skill in the management of their river-craft, by means of which the dauntless traders ascended the shallowest streams to penetrate the main-land, "running on the grass of the meadows, and between the stalks of the harvest field," -- just as in this day our own western steamers are known to run in a heavy dew. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
