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We learnt this from an old ferryman who was able to take his small boat over to deliver supplies from nearby farms.
The ferryman just angled a rudderlike thing against the current and the barge began scooting crabwise across the river.
The ferryman was watching from the stoop of a nearby clapboard house as we rolled up.
The ferryman dies and Siddhartha is left to row the ferry himself.
The old ferryman has become so frail that he no longer rows the ferry.
And, as John the ferryman suggested, there's always the option of last orders at the Ferry Inn before you.
My grim Mexican ferryman didn't utter a word throughout the crossing.
A ferryman to whom they gave a silver 20-shilling piece decided they must be noblemen who were going to fight a duel abroad, and reported them to the authorities.
The ferryman asks a high price if he expects us to obey his commands.
Charon the name of Pluto's largest moon is a ferryman in the service of Pluto, or Hades.
Once more, Yolk asserts its quality label status and bravely plays the role of the ferryman between jazz and contemporary music.
If you don't have to live from it as a fisherman or ferryman, there is absolutely no need for the sea.
Additional cash for the purchase of food was earned from work as ferryman and by panning for gold in the river sands.
Has Ulysses ben reduced to a docile ferryman, unwilling to lose sight of the safer shore?
We are on the shore of the Mediterranean, and an image rises before my eyes, it is the image of the translator as a ferryman.
And the silhouette of the artist stands tall, because every artist is like that ferryman.
Dead just one year before the cinquecento, he could well have remained forever a great ferryman of souls across the river of new centuries.
In this tucked-away harbour on the south Cornish coast, it's not simply a case of paying the ferryman, but of having a darn good natter with him, too, if you want to make the most of your stay.
And he was only a ferryman who would have never learned the language.
On the way Enlil took the shape first of the Nippur gatekeeper, then of the man of the river of the netherworld, and lastly of the ferryman of the river of the netherworld.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The obol referred to is the small coin placed between the lips of the dead to pay the toll to the ferryman of Hades.
When I was asked for the ferriage, I paid for two, and the ferryman asked where the other was.
The ferryman could only talk Dutch, and so Mr. George could not ask him what was to pay.
The ferryman took his pipe from his mouth 86 and regarded the party quizzically.
But it was not to retire for the night that the ferryman entered his dormitory.
For what bridge shall cross the uncrossable, what ferryman ply for silver pounds on the Great Gulf?
It was the cow ferryman, who was taking his part in the rejoicings of the day, and letting off fireworks.
The ferryman emerged from the willows and stepped into his boat.
I hoped I had made it clear that after this week you cease to be ferryman.
Pence Oiler, the ferryman, sat in the corner puffing at a cob pipe.
A gruff Hollander by the name of Peter Houter was the ferryman.
The ferryman placed his pipe on the ground with the greatest composure.
One could divine by the ray of a tiny light the sort of hut in the form of a beehive where the ferryman of cows took refuge at night.
This ferryman was a winkie with a very small head and a very large body.
D'Artagnan took advantage of the lamp which burned in the cabin of the ferryman to read the billet of Mme.
No, be quiet, it is the ferryman of Loewestein, a smart young man of twenty-five.
At Walnut Grove, bustling with life, the few Americane consisted of the storekeeper, the saloonkeeper, the butcher, the keeper of the drawbridge, and the ferryman.
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