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The movie has been steaming steadily toward this foreshadowed moment, and we feel it coming as a reckoning, involving shrinks, medication, and if Phoebe is lucky, rescue.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ever since then, Korvette has been steaming ahead with the seaworthy speed and audacity of its namesake.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pavlof, at the peninsula's end, has been steaming for years, and several others are under expectant scientific observation.

From The Book of the National Parks by Yard, Robert Sterling

But he had to walk home from the Chicago races all the same, and he has been steaming ever since.

From The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883 by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)