Short-distance commuter boat

Usage examples of ferry.

Two catamarans flying brightly colored flags and loaded with tourists were pulling away from the dock, and more tourists were lined up to board the regular ferry that ran back and forth between Anguilla and St.

We had to cross the Assiniboine on a ferry, and then rose nearly all the way to Rapid City, twenty-two miles, going through pretty country much wooded and with hundreds of small lakes, favourite resorts of wild duck.

The Assiniboine we crossed just before getting to the fort, on a ferry.

Major Dillon had not one but three stopwatches, all hanging from cords around his neck, and then, as the ferrying of the avgas to the Catalina was carried out, understood what he was doing with them.

The birdcage guys are ferrying meter-wide chips of water ice through the veils hung over their filigree space ship, busy as ants tearing apart a grasshopper.

Its shops and inns clung so closely to the shore of Lake Biwa that the masts of the fishing smacks, the pleasure boats, and the ferries beached there seemed to sprout from thatched roofs.

When the last trembling back had disappeared, Bolivar and I went out the front door and walked towards the waiting ferry.

During the next few days I obtained railway time-tables which listed cross-Channel ferries and train connections on the Continent, and spent quite a lot of time between my other duties in studying these together with brochures from shipping companies, trying to work out how best to travel from Bournemouth to Athens.

That Deimos ferry that was hijacked to Pallas last monththey claimed to be Byelorussians, seeking to liberate their homeland.

Seen from the bow of the low-slung ferry, it rises like the archetypal island of dreams, green with spring grass all the way to its camelback ridge, its shores salted with patches of humid evening mist.

On the ferry in the middle of the Strait of Canso, Lily puts the diary down and looks behind her at Cape Breton because she will never see it again.

They were approaching Strome Ferry, running along the banks of Loch Carron, and before answering her he remarked upon the beauty of the scenery they were passing through.

So now it was the medical teams being ferried down from orbit, civilian volunteers complementing entire mobile military hospitals.

But seven people from the town were there, and some of the Dogon too, for Freedom Love had lent them Gudrun Sarkis to ferry them across the lake.

It was a seven-day journey, but Dolley enjoyed every moment-the crossing of wide waters by ferry, the rough rides over muddy, rutted roads, even the nights in noisy, drafty ordinaries.