packet boat
Example Sentences
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The grueling trip will require enduring three tedious weeks of crude travel conditions via coal-fueled locomotive, mule-drawn Erie Canal packet boat, steamship and wagon train.
From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2023
But if I hadn’t kept a close eye on our son, he would have ended up on a packet boat to New Guinea.
From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2012
She, Lizzie, and two female friends boarded a nighttime Erie Canal packet boat.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Maggie, Kate, Leah, Mother, and Calvin traveled by packet boat over 200 miles east to Albany, the capital city of New York State.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
At Yarmouth he was detained by easterly gales; and when at last the packet boat made the mouth of the Elbe it was wrecked.
From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland
