Of course it could not be forded with loads in the wagons, but the loading would have to be ferried in the boat.
General Slocum had already ferried two of his divisions across the river, when Sister's Ferry, about forty miles above Savannah, was selected for the passage of the rest of his wing and of Kilpatrick's cavalry.
Smith's division was then rapidly ferried across; that of General John E.
We took our wagon to pieces, and ferried it and its contents across, and then drove our mules into the water.
As I was being ferried across I saw him lolling in the stern-sheets of a little boat, the sun crowning his straw hat with glory.
Changing horses and rapid riding brought us to the main trunk of the Rio Grande, when embarking with our saddles and geer, in broad canoes, we were ferried to the opposite bank at Santiago.
Please yourselves," I replied; "if my party is not ferried across by the time the sum reaches that spot on the heavens (pointing to the position it would occupy at about 3 P.
After much hallooing, a canoe was brought from the island, which was not more than fifty yards from the mainland, and we were ferried across.
We wereferried across a river in large canoes, capable of carrying fifty men, but formed of a single tree upwards of four feet wide.
So I ferried both her and Nanette alike, and let them encounter one another, and charged no difference in their weight.
Instead of that, they all behaved as if I had never ferried them; and the ingratitude of the young women made me long to be in Wales again.
Arriving at the first river, the Mpozo, the Advance was already jointed, and we were ferried over to the other bank by fifties, and camped.
He wondered in a wave of tenderness if she ferried the river too in storm and, glancing at his watch found the hour disturbing.
And he hated the village boy who ferried the punt back and forth upon the river, hated the horn with its transforming miracles of reminiscence, for it pointed the nameless lack of sparkle now that struck melancholy into his soul.
He had humbly pledged himself to curb a tendency to speed and excitement and therefore ferried the river well until a wind rose at twilight, clouds thickened overhead and a spatter of rain blew into his face.
Ivan bowed down to him, went to the river, took the ferry, and ferried three whole years for nothing.
The ferrymen sprang up that minute and ferriedhim across the river.
Mr. Meredith descended from his seat and waited his turn to go through what was to him a form, and during this time the ladies watched the troops being ferried across the river.
Some of the streams we had to cross were not fordable, and we had great difficulty in getting ourselves ferried over.
After the service they were brought back to the place of crossing and again ferried over, all in a quiet way becoming the day and occasion.
Sabbath afternoon the families came in their wagons as far as the creek, where they were met by neighbors on this side, ferried across by Andrew Mitchell, and conveyed to the home of Mr. Wadsworth.
There was no bridge across the Mississippi river at that time and the trains wereferried across the river by means of a large, flat ferry boat.
The cars were ferried across the Missouri river during the summer months, and crossed on a temporary bridge during the winter months up to the fall of 1883, when the bridge across the river was completed and opened up for business.
Dyer Usher and Joel Howard ferried people across the Mississippi near Muscatine in the summer of 1839.
On the twelfth the freedmen were, under Brown's direction, ferried across the Detroit River to Windsor, Canada.
In haste the fugitive was ferried across the river to West Troy, only to fall into the hands of a constable and be again taken into custody.
These, one hundred and twenty in number, were conveyed to Rome, and they were ferried across the strait in the following way.
The beasts were put on board this and were ferried across without knowing that they were moving on the water.
In this way the elephants and all the rest wereferried safely over.
Why be some driven from the bank and some ferried across?
The Athapascans imagine that the soul must be ferried over a great water in a stone canoe, and the Algonquins and Dakotas believe that departed spirits must cross a stream bridged by an enormous snake.
Willingly," replied the Crane, who was very susceptible to flattery, and he ferried them across the river.
By this time the monster had gained the river, and on seeing the fisherman he asked to beferried over also.
The bridge rafts for one of the crossings could not be got up to the river bank because the men were continually slipping in the mud under the heavy load, and the attacking battalion at this spot was ferried over in coracles.
In the other places the covering parties of brigades began to be ferried over at eight o'clock.
The army was marched and ferried from Milliken's Bend to De Shroons' Landing, three or four miles below Grand Gulf.
During the night, Buell's divisions arrived, were ferried over the river, and placed in line for the battle of the next day.
The 3rd of January was taken up in getting the column ferried across a stream named the Balu, which runs below Loikaw, and is eighty yards wide and unfordable.
The two last packages ferried to the lighthouse contained, not only warm woolen wraps for the women and children, but a big bundle of letters and telegrams.
Do you mean that we could be ferried to the steamer by that means?
This must be a central point with them, where for some time they had secretly landed the goods ferried over from the nearby Canadian shore.
So it came about that when Mr. Spofford arrived on the dock, and wasferried across by Herb, he found some mighty fine odors wafting hither and thither.
In the night they were ferried across, and Grant's outlying commands were brought to the front.
Skillful fishermen safely ferried the rest of the American army across to New York.
The little dugouts picked up the poor fellows who were clinging to bushes and old logs, and ferried them to a spot of dry land.
The enemy thus secured the control of King's Ferry, where troops and supplies for the patriot army were ferried across the Hudson.
On the night of November 13, Arnold ferried five hundred of his men across the St. Lawrence, and climbed to the Heights of Abraham, at the very place where Wolfe had climbed to victory sixteen years before.
Under the cover of darkness, and in silence, Clark ferried his men across the river, and spread his little army as if to surround the town.
In the course of a night and a day the party were ferried over, two by two, a few of them, however, swimming 'with fardel on back.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ferried" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
