Use "steerage" in a sentence
steerage example sentences
steerage
1. There was no wind for steerage, they were guiding the ship with poles
2. in the steerage section, forward of the rear quarters
3. The blubber room was between the steerage section and the
4. “I'm afraid that we would move too slowly, and we would lose the steerage he provides that
5. ” Denson adds, "They didn't come to America by steerage to migrate
6. Still, Mutiny was mutter’d of in the Steerage, and the Cook whisper’d to us that the Men were sick at Heart, and that when Carrion Birds had come to pluck out Cocklyn’s Eyes, they had torn at Llewelyn’s Flesh as well
7. Whitehead quickly order’d the First Mate who had replaced Cocklyn to go down into the Steerage and send up as many arm’d Men as possible
8. “Where are the Men I call’d for?” he shouted down into the Steerage, but all was Silence below
9. “Go into the Steerage,” he commanded the Second Mate, “and summon the Men!”
10. We took the Happy Delivery with a Boardin’ Party o’ but a dozen Men, whilst all the bloody Debtors grumbl’d an’ complain’d in the Steerage
11. But most cower’d in the Steerage, awaiting Rescue
12. Poor passengers were kept below decks in steerage, well away from the incredible luxury in which the first-class passengers were enjoying their trip
13. "Major Butt helped those poor frightened steerage people so wonderfully, so tenderly and yet with such cool and manly firmness that he prevented the loss of many lives from panic
14. Dozens of the cabin passengers were witnesses of some of the frightful scenes on the steerage deck
15. The steerage survivors said that ten women from the upper decks were the only cool passengers in the life-boat, and they tried to quiet the steerage women, who were nearly all crazed with fear and grief
16. The officers had to assert their authority by force, and three foreigners from the steerage who tried to force their way in among the women and children were shot down without mercy
17. But these men stood aside—one can see them!—and gave place not merely to the delicate and the refined, but to the scared Czech woman from the steerage, with her baby at her breast; the Croatian with a toddler by her side, coming through the very gate of Death and out of the mouth of Hell to the imagined Eden of America
18. A second table was served in both cabins for the new guests, and the Carpathia's second cabin, being better filled than its first, the second class arrivals had to be sent to the steerage
19. The two hundred and more steerage passengers did not leave the ship until 11 o'clock
20. Boxhall said he went down to the steerage, inspected all the decks in the vicinity of where the ship had struck, found no traces of any damage and went directly to the bridge and so reported
