Fire fighting activities aboard theferryboat became better organized; the passengers, observing that Captain Barker knew what he was about, became calm and easily managed.
The ferryboat clung grimly to the blazing excursion boat, losing contact at times, then picking her up again, and pushing on toward the shoal.
Rasping and groaning in its timbers, the stout little ferryboatground her way through the sand.
And I'll show you as much of the ferryboat as I can," he added.
I want to go on a ferryboat and across the Brooklyn Bridge," said Flossie, one day.
This tiresome walk, however, did not last long; the landing place was reached sooner than Hermon expected, and the ferryboat bore the travellers and the horses to Tennis.
At last the ferryboat touched the land, and when Hermon looked around for the lad he had already leaped ashore, and was just vanishing in the darkness.
We were about a third of the way across the river when the cord of the ferryboat broke.
Olivain, "the rope which holds the ferryboat has broken and the boat is drifting.
Olivain managed in his turn to land, after crossing himself repeatedly; and the people in the ferryboat guided themselves as well as they were able toward the bank, with the aid of a pole which chanced to be in the boat.
In the meantime, the ferryboat had floated away, carried down by the stream, and the shrieks of those whom it contained resounded more and more.
They all said they had not noticed whether Tom and Becky were on board the ferryboat on the homeward trip; it was dark; no one thought of inquiring if any one was missing.
When the ferryboat with her wild freight pushed into the stream, nobody cared sixpence for the wasted time but the captain of the craft.
As twilight drew on, the ferryboatwent back to her accustomed business and the skiffs disappeared.
The old steam ferryboat was chartered for the occasion; presently the gay throng filed up the main street laden with provision-baskets.
Shortly before ten o'clock he came out into an open place opposite the village, and saw the ferryboat lying in the shadow of the trees and the high bank.
Three miles below town the ferryboat stopped at the mouth of a woody hollow and tied up.
The little steam ferryboat was about a mile below the village, drifting with the current.
It marked, indeed, an incipient stage in the art of suspension bridges, the ferryboat itself supporting a part of the weight, while the ferryman pulled it and himself across.
We played on the ferryboat a while and then we got off her, and Swatty saw where somebody had fastened a lot of logs and bridge timbers to the railway track.
We went down below the steamboat warehouse, where the ferryboat was tied, because nobody was apt to come down there, and nobody did.
At first Captain Hewitt didn't want to take the ferryboat out.
The ferryboat was buffeted by the waves; groups were in waiting on either side the ferry, and teams were in the fields.
On the steep above the landing-place I was introduced to Mr. Irving, with whom I had a few minutes' conversation before he stepped into the ferryboat which was to take him over to the foundry to dinner.
Wilson and Shadrack had stolen a ferryboat and crossed the Tennessee River at night, Brown and Dorsey had shared their food with two Confederate sentries who had stopped them as they crossed the railroad bridge at Stevenson.
The little ferryboat pitched and turned in the current of the river.
Illustration: The little ferryboatpitched and turned in the current of the river.
The next bend of the river, where it turned southward again, was only a few miles from where Tom had crossed in the ferryboat on his way to Chattanooga and Marietta.
Frontispiece The little ferryboat pitched and turned in the current of the river.
Alix and Peter watched the others at the railing until the ferryboat turned.
On Saturday morning of that week I stood on the deck of a ferryboat packed with little commuters who waved and cheered a huge ocean liner bound for Europe.
There came into my mind the picture of a little man I had seen that day, a suburban commuter by his looks, frowning from a ferryboat upon a cheering crowd of strikers.
On awaking, I took up my telescope to take another look across, but I only had it adjusted to my eye, when I again discovered the ferryboat in the distance.
My guide said, I would have to wait awhile till a ferryboat could come and take me across; so I sat down on the bank of the river and began musing.
My little boy has seen his first ferryboat to-day.
As the ferryboat turned into her slip she bumped smartly against the sides of the slip two or three times.
Sunny Boy, as they went down the inclined plank and stepped on the ferryboat deck.
As the ferryboat drew near the New York side, Sunny Boy saw the wonderful "sky line" which is famous all over the world--the outline made by the tall buildings against the sky.
But I've crossed the river every morning for ten years on the ferry, and it strikes me as funny to find some one who doesn't know what a ferryboat is.
There was a crowd of people waiting to get on the ferryboat and for a few minutes the Hortons had to stand at the closed door while the people on the boat walked off.
All day and all night the big ferryboat plied between Benicia and Port Costa, transferring rolling stock.
The early empire builders, striving to reach the Pacific by rail, found it necessary to cross the Carquinez Straits, and to that end built a huge ferryboatcapable of swallowing up long overland trains.
Mother, if you don't mind, I should like to become the boatman of the ferryboat when I am grown up.
The ferryboat was tied safely on the Gonzales side, and then the eighteen, every one a fine marksman, distributed themselves at the fords.
The cannon, a six-pounder, had been brought over on the ferryboat in the night and was now in the Texan camp.
You see, he come to town the morning after the murder, and told about it, and was out with 'em on the ferryboat hunt, and right away after he up and left.
Fort Yuma was delightful at this season (December), and after four or five days spent most enjoyably, we crossed over one morning on the old rope ferryboat to Yuma City, to inquire at the big country store there of news from the Gulf.
Over to the Jersey shore their blunt-nosed ferryboat had taken them, and thence north along the river to Twenty-third Street, seeing the gold and velvet-black city slide southward as in a dream.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ferryboat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boat; canoe; cruiser; ferry
