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Meanings of packet boat in English
Small boat designed for domestic mail, passenger, and freight transportation.
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Examples for "paquebot"
Examples for "paquebot"
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On May 31st the paquebot was sighted near Point Pinos.
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(* "Devait-il en temps de guerre conduire un paquebot?")
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True-Jimmyhad no respect for packet boats and deserved a good trouncing.
2
On these packet boats, too, I could talk with travelers, and try to strike the trail of John Rucker.
3
Harwich is known for being the port where the packet boats, between England and Holland, go out and come in.
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The signing on of a packet ship was quite an historic occasion.
2
She proved to be the packet ship James Monroe, Captain Wilkinson, bound from Liverpool to New York.
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But Captain Bob took this full-pooped old packet ship around the Horn and employed her in the China tea trade.
4
I returned in the packet ship Utica, sailing from Havre, and reaching New York after a passage of forty-two days.
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I sailed in the packet ship Philadelphia from New York for Portsmouth, where we arrived after a passage of twenty-four days.
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It has usually been in the smoking-room of a local mail steamer.
2
The mail steamer Ariel Running between New York and Aspinwall, we captured.
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The little mail steamer came hooting its way around the Point.
4
On the high seas he overhauled the British mail steamer, Trent.
5
Sir George Bowen arrived here by the mail steamer on the 15th ult.
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The British and French mail steamers give the port a wide offing.
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The mail steamers are protected by rifle guns and bodies of soldiers.
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The contract then passed on to deal with the service of mail steamers.
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There are regular mail steamers, once in two weeks, on four routes, viz.
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I just come down the Coast on one of the Pacific mail steamers.
Usage of packet boat in English
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Orders from the bridge of the packet boat rang out over the water.
2
Three horses abreast could drag a packet boat some four miles an hour.
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Again the packet boat was sighted on the distant horizon.
4
We were somewhere west of Jordan, when we met a packet boat going west.
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She made arrangements for crossing in the packet boat, which then, as now, plied from Dover to Calais.
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Maybe by packet boat from Philadelphia?
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It was likely she gave Noggin-or an unknown someone else?-the card and put him on a packet boat from Philadelphia.
8
That night the Great Detective might have been seen on the deck of the Calais packet boat with his secretary.
9
My wounds being now sufficiently, or rather temporarily, healed, I embarked about bedtime at Cartersville on the canal packet boat.
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His keen deep-set eyes were on the shipping lying out in the cove, watching the fussy approach of the bluff packet boat.
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True-Jimmyhad no respect for packet boats and deserved a good trouncing.
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Report of Don Juan Manuel de Ayala Commander of the Packet Boat San
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The Royal Dutch Packet Boat Company adheres to a schedule of regular fortnightly steamship connection.
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Royal Dutch Packet Boat Company
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On these packet boats, too, I could talk with travelers, and try to strike the trail of John Rucker.
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Harwich is known for being the port where the packet boats, between England and Holland, go out and come in.
Translations for packet boat
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