What is "ferryman"

Usage examples of "ferryman".

Smoke was pouring out of the funnel and the Ferryman was alternately welcoming passengers aboard and dashing amidships to check with Metalsmith about the engine.

Ferryman on the way to Towse, and that he was going to the ghost ranch by Abbyqu to check out the bodies.

Ferryman was heading in, he was probably making for the transport section of Towse, expecting to grab an armored wag or a two-wheel to make his escape.

They seemed to be alive, and if you looked at them long enough, even in process of construction or when they were being torn down and nothing remained but the torso, they were alive in every way: they sprinted along the dike, running figures beckoned, threatened, attacked, thrashed, waved from shore to shore, let themselves be carried by the wind, engaged in conversation with the sun, blessed the river and its fish, counted the poplars, overtook the clouds, broke off the tips of steeples, tried to ascend to heaven, to board or pursue the ferry, to take flight, they were never anonymous, but signified Johann Lickfett the fisherman, Pastor Blech, time and time again Kriwe the ferryman, who stood with his mouth open and his head to one side, Captain Bronsard, Inspector Haberland, or whomever else those lowlands had to offer.

Kriwe the ferryman -- the ferry had stopped for the day -- took the Schiewenhorst village mayor with red-and-white-checked daughter to the edge of the woods where Eduard Amsel, guarded as usual by his friend Walter Matern and the dog Senta, had lined up six or seven of his most recent creations against the steeply rising wooded dunes, but not in military formation.

Vehicles, fisherwomen with flounder baskets, the pastor, school-children, travelers in transit, salesmen with sample cases, the coaches and freight cars of the Island narrow-gauge railway, cattle for slaughter or breeding, weddings and funerals with coffins and wreaths were squinted across the river by ferryman Kriwe, who entered all happenings in his log.

The man we believe them to have contacted for the job is known in the trade by the name of Charon, after the Styx ferryman.

The sun had sunk half below the horizon and an evening frost was starring the puddles near the ferry, but Pierre and Andrew, to the astonishment of the footmen, coachmen, and ferrymen, still stood on the raft and talked.

The bogles kept clear of that, at least, but as the ferryman pushed away from the shore, Big Yan kicked Roland on the boot and pointed upward.

Though the ferryman rescued those he could, more than eighteen hundred men burned to death in the explosion or drowned in the freezing water.

Zanni uncoiled his incongruously big whip, gave it a brisk snap, the ferrymen let go—and the geese, willy-nilly, went off in an impetuous swoop downriver, having to hurry to keep the tub from running over them.

The helpful ferrymen then unlatched the coop of doves she had left with them.

Mullenax soon found the Tabán district, where lived all the Danube ferrymen and assorted other hard characters.

Incoming boatmen shouted at them in tones of questioning amazement, or warningly, or derisively, but Edge's ferrymen saved their breath and did not shout retorts.

The ferrymen threw curses at their backs, and one or two threw stones.