How To Use Flatboat In A Sentence
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Before the advent of the steamboat in 1818, it could take as long as a year for a flatboat to travel from New Orleans to Nashville.
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At the same time, she saved the lives of a number of soldiers who were crossing in a flatboat that sank while she and her children were in it.
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In the third week, they pulled the flatboat half out of the water and began a trek inland to see some ruins that Mr. Grady had heard about.
Judge deveraux
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A central character in the tale is Reuben Kemper, who came down the Mississippi from the Ohio Territory in a merchandise-laden flatboat, accompanied by a business partner, John Smith.
When the Bayou Broke Away
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The flatboat is the second of four projects identified as essential to the long-term growth of the Netherland Inn complex.
Kingsport Times News - Daily 5
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He made plans to make the weeklong journey by flatboat down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to Marietta, in Washington County, Ohio.
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Cay was in bed asleep, dreaming about being on the flatboat and floating down the calm, peaceful Florida river.
Judge deveraux
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Grady is to bring the flatboat with more supplies, and we leave early tomorrow.
Judge deveraux
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Flatboatmen make fast, towards dusk, near the cottonwood or pekan-trees;
Walt Whitman
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While traveling west with his family on a flatboat in 1817, he noticed through the cracks in the deck the arm of a child who was drowning beneath the raft.
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Mr. Grady called a halt to their travel well before sundown, and they poled the flatboat to the shore.
Judge deveraux
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The first is historical fiction called By Wagon and Flatboat.
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Washington had spent all week rowing through his neighborhood in a scavenged flatboat.
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Mr. Grady called a halt to their travel well before sundown, and they poled the flatboat to the shore.
Judge deveraux
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Nuttall then headed east to St. Louis with some fur traders and continued on to New Orleans by flatboat.
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Once the kiln cooled, usually after two or three days, the finished ware was loaded onto flatboats or wagons and shipped to distributors and merchants often several hundred miles away.
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By mid-century the rivers were thick with flatboats and keelboats.
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Cajun boaters invented a flatboat called the bateau, to pass through shallow swamps.
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Steamboat passengers were appalled at the wan, shivering families along the river, occasionally seen living on flatboats as they waited for flood waters to recede.
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By mid-century the rivers were thick with flatboats and keelboats; the former lifted loads up to 100 tons while the latter typically hauled forty-ton cargoes along the shallower streams.
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She staggered backward but managed to hold on to it even though she hit the side of the little building that stood at the far end of the flatboat.
Judge deveraux
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Abraham Lincoln, as a hired hand on a flatboat in 1831, ran aground on a trip down the Mississippi River.
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Furthermore, the craft in which the visitor paddled out to the flatboat was the very one, as identified by Jethro, which, in some way, had been recaptured from the ranger.
The Phantom of the River
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I recalled the flatboat captain's warning that Old Thares would smell far worse than the timber fires had.
Shaman's Crossing
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So he turned his flatboat around and headed home to call his lawyer.
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Cajun boaters invented a flatboat called the bateau, to pass through shallow swamps.
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“A few months on a flatboat in such splendor will give you time to think and to remember.”
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