Sentence example with the word 'steerage'

steerage

Definition n. the cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship

Last update: June 20, 2015


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At Fontainebleau in 1876 Stevenson had met Mrs Osbourne, the lady who afterwards became his wife; she returned to her home in California in 1878, and in August of the following year, alarmed at news of her health, Stevenson hurriedly crossed the Atlantic. He travelled, from lack of means, as a steerage passenger and then as an emigrant, and in December, after hardships which seriously affected his health, he arrived in San Francisco.   [Please select]

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Newhaven-Dieppe, steerage passenger.   [Please select]

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Why repeat steerage gossip, about mysterious cargoes, at the cuddy table.   [Please select]

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He would be content to go by steerage all the way, and that could probably be done for the sum he named.   [Please select]

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All three were standing to the north-north-west, under easy sail, and on the starboard tack, but scarcely holding steerage-way, and taking little heed of it.   [Please select]

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He was mortally wounded, but succeeded in the subsequent confusion, in gaining the steerage.   [Please select]

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Making their way aft by means of the rigging, they swung themselves to the deck and dashed for the steerage hatch.   [Please select]

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