I recalled the flatboat captain's warning that Old Thares would smell far worse than the timber fires had. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
The flatboat is the second of four projects identified as essential to the long-term growth of the Netherland Inn complex. From Wordnik.com. [Kingsport Times News - Daily 5] Reference
"He bring his flatboat of whisky," said Ta-Kumsaw. From Wordnik.com. [He Don't Know Him] Reference
Accordingly one of them asked, indicating the flatboat. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
Before that, we had wheelwrights and flatboat captains. From Wordnik.com. [Democrats declare war on West Virginia. Again. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference
He's got a flatboat big enough to carry a team and wagon. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
I "Got me a flatboat now, and a cargo of whisky, don't I?". From Wordnik.com. [He Don't Know Him] Reference
If it's a flatboat or a raft, I'll try to get across on that. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
Buy yourself a flatboat, but beware of the rascals who run them. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
Eleven o-clock approached and the flatboat was still well offshore. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
The old flatboat seemed ready to slide from under him at any minute. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
He went to the water; the end of the flatboat was two yards from the river. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
In April he started on this flatboat for New Orleans, which he reached in May. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896] Reference
He jumped down to the flatboat; stumbled a little, from being weak and hurting. From Wordnik.com. [He Don't Know Him] Reference
Right there on the flatboat, standing right behind him, reaching out his hands. From Wordnik.com. [He Don't Know Him] Reference
As in his youth he saved the flatboat, so in his mature years he saved the nation. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
They were watching a flatboat on the river that was out of control in the current. From Wordnik.com. [TWO FOR TEXAS] Reference
At the rear of each flatboat a steel pin extended seven or eight inches above the woodwork. From Wordnik.com. [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference
Several members of the bucket brigade assisted the boys in getting the engine off the flatboat. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Firemen of Lakeville; or, Herbert Dare's Pluck] Reference
A flatboat appears carrying a woman wearing colorful jewelry and her hair in a long black braid. From Wordnik.com. [Oil Imperils Native American Town, And Way Of Life] Reference
"What about the flatboat there?" asks Cheryk who rides out from behind the back of the warehouse. From Wordnik.com. [Scion of Cyador]
I heard the lapping of the river against the drifting flatboat, and the calls of early morning birds. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
Nothing but the carabao's flatboat-like feet could drag ploughs through the soft mud of the rice-fields. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
With two relatives Lincoln built a flatboat and started down the river for New Orleans on a trading venture. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference
Illinois rivers, as far as Beardstown, a flatboat bearing the family and goods of a pioneer bound for Texas. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896] Reference
As settlement and business increased, the canoe gave place to the raft, and the raft yielded to the flatboat. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891] Reference
There were plenty of boards at hand to make a runway for the engine, and in a little while it was on the flatboat. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Firemen of Lakeville; or, Herbert Dare's Pluck] Reference
Huck was sitting on the gunwale of a flatboat, listlessly dangling his feet in the water and looking very melancholy. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer] Reference
The flatboat had shipped about two inches of water, and more was entering just as fast as it could flow through the cracks. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
Burr marked him, talked to him, walked with him, took him a day or two's voyage in his flatboat, and, in short, fascinated him. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
Once it grew dark, the mosquito problem drove most Quadlings into their stilted huts, though the odd canoe or flatboat sidled along. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
It was in the spring after the deep snow of 1831, that three or four lumbermen, who had built a large flatboat for carrying a cargo to New. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.