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The boat, full of four big heavy men, seemed not to touch the water but to rest on the surface film like a water boatman.
A better boatman, Clark usually stayed on the keelboat while Lewis walked on shore and made his scientific observations.
Occasionally the record keeper noted that a shoemaker, a boatman, a carpenter, and a number of priests obtained licences to sell wine.
The boatman beaches us on a spit of land leading up to a stone house surrounded by willows.
Lt Welch has a team of 31, including 27 divers, an administrative assistant, a boatman and two artificers to maintain their equipment.
There was such a boat jam on the way that it took all the expertise and skillfulness of the boatman to reach the take off point.
After arriving at Fern Island, they had to hire a boatman to take them to Goldworth Isle.
The stoic expression on Buddy's weathered face was almost identical to that of the other boatman as the boats closed rapidly on each other.
Founding Chairman of the Newry Canal Preservation Society, John was a boatman, a sailor, a windsurfer and a musician from the Showband days.
An enslaved boatman spotted one particularly heavy trunk, broke it open, took some of its contents, and threw it into the James River.
Bhim, our Nepalese boatman on the sweep oar, skillfully hauls the raft around so that we hit the wave bow-on.
Notice the boatman making sure the booms are intact and pushing logs to the loggers.
Melvin asked the indigenous boatman why the spring they were going to was called the enchanted spring.
After my delivery, the boatman came back and I was able to get on the boat to go for treatment in the CSPS in Ramsa.
We can admit, like the boatman, that unforeseen things, eruptions from outside into the pattern of our expectation, will invariably turn up.
The only way to reach the building was by airboat, piloted by an Everglades boatman, as all streets were impassable from fallen trees, flood waters or both.
Instead, follow the river where it goes, and after a time, when the rapids no longer swirl and bash, you may hire a boatman to take you where you wish.
Sitting in his small wooden boat, an old boatman surnamed Wu warmed up a pot of yellow rice wine, then carefully poured it into a bowl for himself.
Not all is lost though, for about twenty five pounds sterling you can hire a boatman for six hours and have him anchor within casting distance of the feeding fish.
Unfortunately, I had observed the boatman was as thick as a plank.
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The boatman did not know this fable, but he did know of a red deer that came and spoke to a gentleman.
That oval beetle which is swimming on its back, and using two legs like oars, is the water boatman.
The water boatman is much more compact in form than the Orthoptera, or any of the other insects we have studied.
Unlike the water boatman, however, its back is not flat but is shaped like the keel of a boat.
The insect known as the water boatman has a regular pair of oars, his legs being used as such.
We like to think of the water boatman cheerily rowing about and diving among the reflections of the trees.
The water boatman breathes by spiracles, and carries his supply of air with him.
I paid six florins in gold to the boatman who took me from Bamberg to Frankfurt.
My boatman, Captain Sam, and I kept a sharp watch on all sides for sailfish.
Thinking that it might be possible to secure a canoe from here to Pueblo Viejo, we dickered with a boatman at the wharf.
A hoveller is an unlicensed pilot or boatman, particularly on the Kentish coast.
It was after this that we had providentially met the boatman, and had been safely led on board.
He stood ready to receive and deliver it to the boatman who had landed below.
Is the soul related to the body as sight to the eye, or as the boatman to his boat?
And I have reached a time in my experience of fishing where I want that kind of a boatman.
The water boatman swims upon his back by means of his singularly formed legs.
His voice had suddenly become cold, and he signed to his boatman.
I paid the boatman a quarter, and we walked up to bay street.
No boatman fears a Marlin as he does the true broadbill swordfish.
The boatman and bilby were opposite the doorway of the tunnel.
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