Talk:by steam

See steam sense 4,5. DCDuring TALK 01:40, 30 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Which you just added. Please exemplify in a phrase that does not use "by". DAVilla 06:02, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1845, Frederick Knight Hunt, The Rhine: Its Scenery, and Historical and Legendary Associations [a/k/a The Rhine Book], reprint, ISBN 1421266377, page 5,
 * The traveller who decides upon visiting the Rhine will do well to take steam to Antwerp.
 * —msh210 ℠  17:24, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Note, though, that take steam seems to have been an idiom meaning be tugged or something like that. So maybe that's the idiom being used in the quotation I just posted, and it's not an example of "steam" (per se, in the senses required).—msh210 ℠  17:33, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Kept, no consensus, plus we have by sail (and I'm voting keep). Mglovesfun (talk) 12:34, 20 August 2009 (UTC)