I was once a ferryman on the Nile and used to ply between the eastern and the western banks.
The ferryman swore his boat drew less water when 'he' got in.
It's called the bank of farewell, because it's the custom to say farewell here, before the ferryman ferries one across.
Indeed, this undertaking seems to the ferryman himself so supernatural, that he says these cannot be called men: "In Wahrheit, Menschen kann man sie nicht heissen.
Eleanor lightly, while they waited for theferryman to come back to them.
I tell ye, them girls air game," declared the ferryman watching them ride off as soon as the storm was over.
I swan," said the apathetic ferryman who had paid no attention to the previous confusion.
Telemachus, after having passed through the dark avenues of death in the retinue of Mercury, who every day delivers up a certain tale of ghosts to the ferryman of Styx, is admitted into the infernal bark.
LVI Yet more the haughty stranger to wrath would he provoke, So on the head of Hagan a boat-pole next he broke, The ferryman of Elsy was sure a lusty wight, Yet naught but loss and ruin got he by all his might.
XLVI The ferryman was wealthy, to serve he scarce could bear, And hence it seldom happened he deign'd to take a fare.
LXI Him well his comrades greeted beside the foamy flood, But when they saw the shallop reeking all with blood From that grim wound, that sudden the ferryman did to death, They put a thousand questions to Hagan in a breath.
XIX Then answer'd he of Trony, "Was that same ferryman thine?
Good speed will make the ferryman when once he hears the name.
The ferryman wax'd furious when Hagan there he found; Thus he bespake the hero, and speaking darkly frown'd.
Greek mythology, the ferryman who rowed the shades of the dead across the river Styx in the lower world: a ferryman generally.
The ferryman referred to is Charon, of Greek mythology, who was supposed to ferry the souls of the dead over the river Acheron to the infernal regions.
The travellers requested the ferryman to take them across.
Sribatsa proposed that first his wife and the mattress should be taken across, and then he; but the ferryman would not hear of it.
Hundreds of times, and with never a mishap, the ferryman had poled his clumsy scow across the dangerous passage between the rapids--the only possible crossing-place for miles in either direction.
The horse in pawn was left with the ferryman on the Island, and he was redeemed in time.
The ferryman and his sister had yet to pull a fearful distance for the time they had to do it in, to get out of that part of the current leading to the breakers: and they accomplished it.
The young ferryman now drew up the sweep alongside, and succeeded in getting the two unfortunate men into his boat.
We saw the ferrymanlean over the side of his boat, for a moment, as it passed them, while his sister backed water with her oar.
One of the poor fellows was so much exhausted, that the ferryman had to carry him on his back to the nearest house, where he soon recovered.
But the ferryman was of a different opinion, and could not brook the thought of their dying before his eyes without his making a single effort to save them.
His work as a ferryman showed him that there were other ways of making a little money than by hiring out to the neighbors at twenty-five cents a day.
Lincoln got his first glimpse of the world beyond Indiana when he worked for several months as a ferryman and boatman on the Ohio River, at Anderson Creek.
When acting as ferryman on the Ohio in his nineteenth year, anxious, no doubt, to get through the books of the house where he boarded before he left the place, he read every night until midnight.
They came flocking to the Acheron or River of Death, where the ferryman named Charon, with eyes like flaming wheels, bore them across.
The horsemen were close at Baumgarten's heels, and he begged the ferryman to take him across the water in spite of the danger, but to no avail.
The ferryman replied that he would not venture out on the lake in that storm to save the life of any one, for it was impossible for any boat to live in the sea that was raging there.
No ferryman was to be found, and for a few minutes it was a problem how I should cross to Nauvoo.
From the tavern, I proceeded to the landing-place, and engaged the ferryman to take me over to Montrose, on the Iowa side of the river.
Having proceeded considerably above Nauvoo, the ferryman and his men began to venture out into the broad stream, in order to cross.
The ferryman said he was, and Kit liked his looks.
But he was broke, and the ferryman charged forty dollars a ton.
When he reached the ferry, the boat was just ready, and the same ferryman who had once transported the young Samana across the river, stood in the boat, Siddhartha recognised him, he had also aged very much.
In the night when he slept in the straw hut of a ferryman by the river, Siddhartha had a dream: Govinda was standing in front of him, dressed in the yellow robe of an ascetic.
Vasudeva had again taken on the job of the ferryman all by himself, and Siddhartha, in order to be with his son, did the work in the hut and the field.
The ferryman got him across the river on his bamboo-raft, the wide water shimmered reddishly in the light of the morning.
Afterwards, it was almost the time of the sunset, they sat on a log by the bank, and Siddhartha told the ferryman about where he originally came from and about his life, as he had seen it before his eyes today, in that hour of despair.
But most of all, I have learned here from this river and from my predecessor, the ferryman Vasudeva.
Siddhartha reached the large river in the forest, the same river over which a long time ago, when he had still been a young man and came from the town of Gotama, a ferryman had conducted him.
For a long time, the ferryman looked at the stranger, searching.
In preparing a body for burial, the Greeks took a piece of money and put it into the mouth, to give to the ferryman Charon.
The nearest relation among the Romans closed the eyes and mouth of the deceased, after putting money into the mouth for the ferryman who was to take the soul of the dead over the lake it had to cross.
The ferryman simply stood in the bow of the wherry and hauled her across by main force, passing the ring along as he went.
One does not in terms request a ferryman to put one across the river.
Stepping into the boat is an offer to pay the usual fare for being ferried over, and the ferryman accepts it by putting off.
The ferryman took to the oar remaining With such a might, That all his body cracked with straining, And his heart shook with feverish fright.
With hands on oars the ferryman Strove where the stubborn current ran, With a green reed between his teeth.
The ferryman rises, growling and grumbling, And goes fum-fumbling, and stumbling, and tumbling Over the wares on his way to the door.
But he sees no more Than he saw before; Till a voice is heard: "O Ferryman dear!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ferryman" 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; sculler; yachtsman
