old liner
Example Sentences
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But as others have proved - there might still be life in the old liner yet.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2015
Hundreds of Hawaiians lined Honolulu's Waikiki Beach one day last week to say goodbye to the famed old liner Mat-sonia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Neither spoke until the pale-faced woman realized the onward motion of the sturdy old liner, and her deep-set eyes had wandered over the nautical surroundings.
From The Midnight Passenger : a novel by Savage, Richard
He is told by the agent of an old liner of its enormous "legal reserve," and innocently supposes this to be a portion of its available assets—the one thing which makes it "solid."
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper
It was an English boat, an old liner pulled off the Australian trade, that could carry only twenty-five hundred men.
From One of Ours by Cather, Willa Sibert
