How To Use canal boat In A Sentence
- I was born aboard a canal boat, and often tumbled in and had to be fished out by my father with the spitcher. Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track
- Cleveland captains declined his services in such vigorous seafaring language (not unmixed with many unnecessary oaths), that he was glad enough to give up the idea of sailoring, and take a place as driver of a canal boat from Cleveland to Pittsburg in Pennsylvania, the boat being under the charge of one of his own cousins. Biographies of Working Men
- The former ship's steward even got a chance to pilot a canal boat.
- A Culinary Journey in Gascony: Recipes and Stories from My French Canal Boat by Kate Ratliffe French Word-A-Day:
- For most purposes the floor of a canal boat may be considered stable, like that of a domestic interior.
- The Cleveland captains declined his services in such vigorous seafaring language (not unmixed with many unnecessary oaths), that he was glad enough to give up the idea of sailoring, and take a place as driver of a canal boat from Cleveland to Pittsburg in Pennsylvania, the boat being under the charge of one of his own cousins. Biographies of Working Men
- Stages and canal boats had been crowded with visitors descending on the twin communities.
- For most purposes the floor of a canal boat may be considered stable, like that of a domestic interior.
- The last horses you would see would be the barge horses pulling the canal boats to Bolton and Bury - now these, too, are no more.
- Early steam engines were not very suitable for powering canal boats because of their large size.
