AEneas and his guide now present themselves for passage, but the oldboatman refuses his boat to mortal bodies, until he is appeased by the Sibyl.
They see approaching them across the stream the old boatman Charon, who in his frail skiff ferries souls across the water.
As the eyes of the boatman fell upon the parcel they glared at it with a greed of covetousness which De Leon read at a glance and carefully noted.
For a moment the yellow, devilish face of the boatman bent over him with a look of indescribable malice, the next the axe descended full on poor De Leon’s helpless head, and with a groan he sank unconscious into the bottom of the boat.
The boatman turned in time to see that Montgomery was awake and feeling for his pistol, then, recognizing that the game was up, he jumped ashore.
This, however, is mere conjecture, but on the night of that landing, De Leon awoke from a heavy stupor to find the boatman raising his axe to slay his friend Montgomery.
De Leon, however, not only saw the error, but made it quite clear to the boatman that he understood him.
He told the boatman that the persons he bore away were his wife and child; and thus no suspicions were awakened in the mind of the boatman of the great personages he thus bore off amid the shades of night.
There is only theboatman and a lad, and the lad has an oar.
A great kindly-eyed man he was, with an enormous brown beard, which I daresay he oiled, for it glittered in the winter sunshine like the back of a boatman beetle.
A boatman manages to hook his jacket with a long boat-hook, and pulls him towards the boat; gently the men lift him in, sorrowfully, and tears are in the eyes of more than one as they look upon the small face.
The current was, however, very swift, and so the boatman poled the boat far up the stream before he would venture to put out into it; and then he was carried down a great way in going across.
The boatman waited until the steamer came pretty near, and then he rowed out to meet it.
At length, when Rollo saw that the forward end of the raft, in its progress down the river, had come nearly opposite to the place where he was standing, he got into the boat, and the boatman rowed him out to the raft.
A man who stood on the paddle box threw a rope to the boat, and the boatman made this rope fast to a belaying pin that was set for the purpose near the bow of the boat.
One of them had a boatman in attendance upon it, waiting for the company that he was to take over to the island.
If my eyes do not deceive me, the boatman lies asleep on the poop.
The boatman returned a dull, unresponsive glance and did not move from his improvised couch.
Something in Odo's voice seemed to compel, and soon they were afloat, the boatman bending to his oars.
The slow creaking of the spliced oar, swung in its lashing by a half-naked yellow man, his incomprehensible chatter with some fellow boatman hidden in the bows, were sounds lost in a drowsy silence, rhythms lost in a wide inertia.
Chantel; and the shoulders moved, the line shifted, as the boatman answered.
The young boatman who was the first to accost us secured our custom, and we stepped down the accommodation-ladder into the swaying boat.
The behaviour of the boatman who rows him ashore in a new country serves the experienced traveller as symbol of the treatment awaiting him in that country.
But just at the right moment the boatman steers our nutshell aside into a bay with a back current, and we are able to land.
I shall be glad if all goes well," I thought, but I left the boatman to his own devices.
Our boatman is a self-confident fellow, and receives my advice with a smile of superiority when I venture to air my experience in river navigation.
We are on the north side of the valley, and just at the bend where the river turns southwards the water rages and boils more furiously than ever, and here the undaunted boatman declares that we can go no farther.
The boatman sits silent with his teeth clenched and his feet firmly planted against the bottom, and grasps the oars so tightly in his horny hands that the knuckles become white.
The boat only twice grazes the bottom, for our boatman is watchful and steers well.
At length the boatman succeeded in getting us into a backwater, and I got out on to a promontory just as a party of pilgrims were passing by, and was in time to take them with my camera.
The boatman has never changed countenance, and now he helps on with the oars.
Now we dashed towards the first block, but the boatman guided his boat into the deepest water and let it slip down a small waterfall, after which we received a thrust from the other side.
The boatman who has conveyed us to the mouth of the Nyang valley receives four times the usual pay, and can scarcely believe his eyes.
He knows the way, too, and here it is not so easy as it looks to find the course; for the river splits into arms, and only a boatman acquainted with them all can choose the best and shortest.
He stopped, moreover, and began inquiring of an old boatmanas to the tides and the ships.
Very beautiful," she added quickly, though she repressed, in deference to William, her own wonder that the sight of Ralph Denham talking to a boatman on the banks of the Thames could move any one to such an attitude of adoration.
He went toward the hotel, believing that the boatman would feel more secure if he were swallowed up in a crowd, than if he were seen in a more deserted part of the bay.
The boatman asked me to pay my fare, and received the money in a leather bag.
I was the only passenger, and did not have to wait long; the boatman made a sign, the tow-boy mounted his horse, and the trekschuit began to glide gently down the canal.
The boatman said nothing more, but shot the canoe out from the landing and proceeded rapidly down the stream.
From the words the elder boatman rapidly addressed to the younger, it was evident to Mr. Trenton that the half-breed was anxious to pass the rapids before it became very much darker.
The stolid boatman gave the command; the man at the bow paddled one way, while the man at the stern paddled another, and the canoe swung round upstream again.
When we came ashore in the evening, the boatman consoled me with the story of a French count who had spent two weeks there fishing, and only caught one fish.
The old boatman took the helm as requested, and gave the word of command to Mr. Talboys.
The old boatman went forward grinning, and he and his boy lowered the mainsail.
He and the old boatman then instantly unstepped the mast and laid it down in the boat, sail and all.
The old boatman with an oath darted forward with an agility he could not have shown ashore.
As he stepped out he gave the boatman a generous buonamano.
It was true that she could easily get a boatman from the village on the mainland near by, but without Gaspare's companionship she would not care to go.
The boatmangrinned and took off his cap, and the boat glided away across the path of yellow light that was shed from the window of Frisio's.
Usually he talked familiarly to any Neapolitan with whom he found himself, but to-day he was taciturn, and sat in the stern of the broad-bottomed craft looking towards the city in silence while the boatman plied his oars.
A boatman whom he knew met him and said: "Shall I take you to the island, Signore?
But the boatman rowed slowly, influenced by the scirocco.
Stephen stood on the edge of the cliff with the old whaler and the chief boatman and some of the women.
The chief boatman shook his head: 'No use throwing a line there!
And when they had thus spoken, the boatmanconducted Lamme and Ulenspiegel on deck, with many words of cheer and good counsel.
And Ulenspiegel said to Lamme: "This boatman is making mock of us and our good steeds.
And they clapped their hands while Lamme continued to belabour the boatman most unmercifully.
But to the boatman he said aloud: "If you are Stercke Pier, I am Tyl Ulenspiegel.
My son," said Lamme under his breath, "the boatmanwill assuredly throw us into the water.
To which the boatman made answer: "What are you croaking there between your teeth, great block of fat?
At this the boatman began to cough, thereby signifying that he could not speak, and demanded mercy with a sign of his hand.
And the boatman suffered himself to be thus dealt with despite the fact that he was making a great pretence at resistance all the time.
On Wednesday in Holy-Week, theboatman went to fetch Francis and bring him back to Crotona.
The boatmanfastened the painter and resumed his outer clothing.
The boatman removed his chief's boot and fell to rubbing the injury, while the girls looked on helplessly.
The boatmangot well paid for the few strokes which it took him to cover that short distance.
The only exception was at Corfu; when all was ready, and we were just about to hoist the anchor, a Greek boatman came up alongside with a barge loaded with casks and boxes.
Then the boatman filled up the tankards, and said: "I drink to the lark, the bird of freedom.
The boatman went off to fetch them one of the pecks of corn he gave the horses that towed his boat, buying it himself so as not to be cheated by the drivers in the price of fodder.
Thereupon the boatman said to Lamme and to Ulenspiegel: "Let us go into the kitchen.
Lamme drank and looked at the boatman with a conquering air.
Ulenspiegel then says to him: "Thou art Slosse, the traitor boatman that brought into an ambuscade Messires Dandelot, de Battenberg, and other lords.
But the boatman took care for nothing except to save his face.
The boatman said a word in the ear of the lad hee-hawing beside him on the boat, and with the help of a boat hook, which he handled dexterously, came to the bank.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boatman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boatman; ferryman; gondolier; oar; oarsman; sailor; sculler; yachtsman
