1 Sometimes the 'classroom' is a Mississippi riverboat.

2 A passing riverboat tooted its horn.

3 Police raiding the riverboat party had found cocaine, ecstacy tablets, amphetamines and cannabis resin.

4 He worked as a logger and riverboat guide, unmarried but not always unencumbered.

5 They saw a big riverboat.

6 He'd been chased off of a riverboat in Louisiana and watched a teammate kicked out of a Las Vegas casino.

7 Then from the riverboat came a cloud of white smoke, and then another Boom!

8 Chart the mighty Mississippi on a riverboat tour, or try your luck with the northern pike in Lake Onalaska.

9 This river was only recently made accessible to riverboat traffic by a new series of dams and locks.

10 This was tested using a riverboat equipped with a caterpillar paddle wheel (see figure).

11 He worked as a printer, riverboat pilot, reporter, lecturer, and literary man, and he lived in just about every kind of population center, from farms, small towns, and mining camps to great cities.

12 Cool rains pelted our riverboat and everyone scrambled to unspool plastic tarps over the boat's sides.

13 In January,[] Leidinet Guedes boarded the riverboat and made a beeline for Ms. Moraes.

14 The Riverboat Pilots Association voted him Riverboat Captain of the Year for three consecutive years in the 90s.

15 Aztar Corp. received final approval in December to open a riverboat casino in Evansville.

16 Others showed beaming brides and grooms, looking, thanks to the copying process, like black-faced riverboat minstrels.

17 An interesting way to learn about the Civil War is on a riverboat cruise.

18 Sam had secured the position for his brother as a gift, hoping to offer the shy boy an exposure to Sam's own world of riverboat adventure.

19 On the north bank of the Ohio River sits Evansville, Ind. , home of David Williams, 52, and of a riverboat casino where gambling games are played.

20 Several days later five of us traveled stern - wheel riverboat, to another railhead.

21 The encounter with Laura was eclipsed by tragedy when Mark Twain's younger brother, Henry, died at age 19 in a riverboat explosion on June 21, 1858.

22 It may not entirely be a coincidence when in the afternoon we get in our speedy riverboat (it's a bit like a wide minibus) and visit some husky kennels upriver.

23 The nation's breadbasket central provinces this year have seen some grain harvests cut in half, fishing hauls shrink and riverboat shipping lanes dry up.

24 A foul stench rises from the grey-black water as I wait for the riverboat.

25 And what better way to see the Amazon River than on a riverboat!

26 Twain first published Chapters 4–17, describing his apprenticeship as a riverboat pilot, in 1875.

27 "She left me with more than I left her, " he said once to a boozy riverboat pilot in a place called McElroy's Bar, somewhere in the Amazon basin.

28 He spent two years learning the river and becoming a riverboat pilot, but his career on the river was ended by the Civil War.

29 In the film, their two very different characters fall in love on a riverboat in the middle of Africa.