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Definition of Steered
1. steer [v] - See also: steer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Steered
Literary usage of Steered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"But I steered. A three-mile pull brought us to the camp just as the ... Many a
man who had gone through what I had, would have wanted to rest. I steered. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"I steered towards a slit—a creek, I think it's "ailed—in the shore : to avoid
... Keeping—pardon the unfeminine expression —a sharp look out, I steered and ..."
3. Travels & Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories Between the Years by Alexander Henry (1901)
"noon, our party was all collected, the prisoners all embarked, and we steered
for the Isles du Castor,3 in Lake Michigan. 3 Beaver islands, in the northern ..."
4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1866)
"... and the ship steered directly for the Ala bam», my purpose being to run her
down, or, if circumstances did not warrant it, to close in with her. ..."
5. History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft (1854)
"... that having for twenty days steered through its intricate the entrance to the
long-desired passage into the Atlantic had been found. ..."
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