As soon as there were roads, there were ferries and bridges.
Out from Boston to the main were ferries in 1639 to Chelsea and Charlestown.
We read at one time of the ferries being so frozen over that travellers had to make a hundred-mile circuit round by Cambridge.
With such a vast number to put across the river, it is probable that all the ferries and fords in the Leesburg neighborhood were used.
When fords and ferries failed, the mounted traveller swam his horse across, leaving the wayfarer on foot to such more precarious adventure as conditions and his courage offered.
After wheeled vehicles were used, these ferries were not large enough to carry them properly.
The ferries were watched, of course; he knew that the depots, too, were covered by the men whose only duty was to watch the coming and to halt the departing criminal.
Before this I had been collecting, from St. Louis and Chicago, yawls and barges to be used as ferries when we got below.
In all our moves, up to this time, the left had hugged the Big Black closely, and all the ferries had been guarded to prevent the enemy throwing a force on our rear.
Water-courses may be crossed by means of fords, on the ice, or by ferries and bridges.
When temporary bridges or ferries are constructed by the army in the field, they are classed under the general head of military bridges, or more properly, pontoniering.
But ferries in England and ferries in America are very different.
Steam ferriesply every three or four minutes; and into these boats coaches, carts, and wagons of any size or weight are driven.
I also destroyed telegraph and railroad between Tuscumbia and Decatur, and all the ferries between Savannah and Courtland.
Certain tugboats and wide ferries tooted their defiance at the ocean-going craft, for the vessel on which Ruth and Helen were traveling was one of the largest coast-wise steamers sailing out of the port.
The Staten Island ferriesdrummed back and forth, the perky little ferryboat to Ellis Island and the tugboat to the Statue of Liberty crossed their path.
We wish all the cities to destroy all the ferries except those in their immediate neighborhood, so that there shall be no ferries except those near the cities which are in the league.
Flags whipping noisily in the high breeze, the crowds, the bands, and the long khaki column in fours winding towards the North River ferries to embark for Mexico, on a task that called for inhuman restraint.
Cross-river ferries cant into a neighbouring slip, and the glow of their brilliant lights sets a reflection on the high facades of the water-front buildings.
Inasmuch as the bridge at Resaca was overtaxed, Hooker's Twentieth Corps was also diverted to cross by the fords and ferries above Resaca, in the neighborhood of Echota.
He now commenced waiting at the ferries and depots, though he did not immediately give up entirely the newspaper trade.
Lucas, at Independence, May 17th, with a statement that he might return the arms to either of the three ferries on the Missouri, the line between Jackson and Clay counties.
Other parties during the two days mentioned flocked to the Missouri River, and crossed at the ferries into Clay County.
At present there is nothing for us to do but lodge these people in the local prison, telephone the ferries and main towns, and go back to New York.
The four days bridging across the North American continent is no more to him than the Hudson river ferries to the commuter from New Jersey.
But when the horse-cars came and men were no longer forced to walk to and from the ferries or to ride in miserable omnibuses, Brooklyn and Williamsburgh became physically one.
At its feet the ferriescross the Delaware to the fair New Jersey land.
Phædria interposes, and ferries Sir Guyon (the Knight Temperance) over the lake again.
Seeing Sir Guyon, she ferries him across the lake to the floating island, where he is set upon by Cymoch´les.
If it was deemed important to hold these ferries at all, it was certainly advisable to retain a sufficient force to guard against surprise and capture.
The first blunder was committed by the officer who ordered all the forces, with the exception of the Seventh Ohio, from a position which enabled them to guard the ferries of the Gauley.
It was at this time that Lieutenant Irvin found that the ferries of the Ocmulgee River were guarded from one end to the other.
General Toombs spent much time on the Oconee trolling for trout, while bodies of Union cavalry were watching the ferries and guarding the fords, seining for bigger fish.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ferries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
