Lexicographical Neighbors of Canalboats
Literary usage of Canalboats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1919)
"... stevedore who is not an independent contractor is for the jury.11 A finding
by the jury that the plaintiff, who was master of one of several canalboats, ..."
2. Rand McNally & Co.'s Illustrated Guide to the Hudson River and Catskill by Ernest Ingersoll (1893)
"... it is said, to the reckless scattering there of vast quantities of refuse from
barges and canalboats as well as of ashes from many steamboats. ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"... by the following extract, that Mr. Thackeray gives a somewhat different version
of the story: — “The famous regiment.. . . was drafted in canalboats to ..."
4. The New York Times Current History (1918)
"British canalboats, too, much cleaner of line than the French, with curving stems
and well-shaped counters and sterns, built of steel every one, ..."
5. Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars 1861-1865 by Minnesota, Charles Eugene Flandrau (1893)
"... the wind was setting strongly from the Virginia shore; the means of transportation
were heavy scows and clumsy canalboats, managed by poles, when, ..."
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