"Side-wheel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... years ago, as a small boy, I was allowed for the first time to open the little inside door in the paddle-box of a great side-wheel steamer and watched its splendid thrust on the sea, I did not know why it was that I could not be called away from it, or why I stood and watched hour after hour unconscious before it—the thunder and ...
— The Voice of the Machines - An Introduction to the Twentieth Century • Gerald Stanley Lee |
