The Brooklynites continued to make their uncertain ways across the river in times of storm and tide and ice as the Lord gave them strength, and the sacred ferryboats still paid dividends.
Ferryboats and excursion steamers, chartered for that day, heeled over almost to the water's edge with the unsteady weight of their passengers.
The excursion steamers and chartered ferryboats moved to points of vantage and took position, occasionally feeling the water with their paddles.
Whether you approach in the early morning, when gulls arc wheeling above the palette of tones of the Bay, or at night, when illuminated ferryboats glide by like the yellow-bannered halls of fable, the buoyancy of San Francisco is manifest.
By ferryboatsfrom Ferry depot, or via the Presidio, which see.
Crossing is made by huge ice-breaking ferryboats capable of carrying thirty cars and one thousand men, yet only during a part of the winter is the boat able to navigate, so persistent is the extreme cold.
The railway now extends around the southern part of the lake, and crossing byferryboats is not attempted when the ice is thick.
The ferryboats are larger and you might almost say clumsier; that is all.
The next day, as the steamboat was lying at the wharf at Detroit, conversation was turned to the great ferryboats plying across the river.
She knew that she was attractive to most people; babies and old men and women, servants and her associates in the office, strangers on ferryboats and sick people in hospitals alike responded to her friendliness and gaiety.
There was no moon, but Tamalpais' great shoulder was dimly outlined against darker blackness, and moving, twinkling dots showed whereferryboats were crossing and recrossing the distant bay.
Out on San Francisco Bay the lights flashed from the mastheads of ships at anchor or from brightly lighted ferryboats plying from mole to mole, while far to the left, Lake Merritt lay like a gray sheet amid the shadows.
Italian fishing boats with lateen sails go by, To cast their lines outside the Golden Gate; And ferryboats their ceaseless traffic ply, From mole to mole, from early morn till late.
The ferryboatsfrom Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, and Sausalito are plying their ceaseless traffic from mole to mole.
The ferryboats carried sailors and marines who were to attack and destroy the mole.
From the Vindictive's bridge, as she headed in toward the mole, with the faithful ferryboats at her heels, there was scarcely a glimmer of light to be seen shoreward.
On his reaching the Cumberland with his command, he had sent forward his cavalry to seize the ferryboats at Mill Springs.
McCook reached Florence on the 15th of June, where ferryboats had been provided by Mitchel for the crossing of his division.
From the Vindictive's bridge, as she headed in toward the mole, with the faithful ferryboats at her heels, there was scarcely a glimmer of light to be seen shoreward.
The Vindictive, working with the two Mersey ferryboats Daffodil and Iris, carried storming and demolition parties to the Zeebrugge mole.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ferryboats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
