The ferryman was a soldier in the employ of the Telegraphic Commission. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
The ferryman was a poor man, and was likely to remain a poor man to the end of his life. From Wordnik.com. [Haste and Waste; Or, the Young Pilot of Lake Champlain. a Story for Young People] Reference
Now the ferryman was a noble and did not care for service, and those who helped him were as proud as he. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine] Reference
Those words, as the story goes, were used in calling a ferryman, asking someone in the house to come out, and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [OUPblog] Reference
The "ferryman" who kept watch over the river of death was called Arad-Ea, "servant of Ea". From Wordnik.com. [Myths of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
Big David the keeper Donald the ferryman you and I. From Wordnik.com. [Real Ghost Stories] Reference
"Most willingly, reverend father," said the ferryman. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
The ferryman clung to a rope and pulled the load over. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
"That won't do either," answered the enraged ferryman. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
"You fired too quick, Mr. Rodolph," said the ferryman. From Wordnik.com. [The Tory Maid] Reference
They found the ferryman in his shanty, hugging a stove. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
They entered the boat, and again the ferryman pushed off. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
Vain-hope, a ferryman, that with his boat helped him over. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
What a ferryman! he mused as Joan sculled the punt from shore. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Charon is the ferryman; they who ride on the wave found a tomb. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
I prayed dat de Lord wouldn't let de ferryman ax me for my pass. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
They watched the ferryman pushing off into the river's darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
While we were pressing the ferryman to favor us, down came one of. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story] Reference
"Here, ahoy! here, most reverend father!" answered the poor ferryman. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
They came flocking to the Acheron or River of Death, where the ferryman named. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference
"Here, ahoy!" responded the ferryman, but with some strange sensation of fear. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
"Treats 'em as though they were prize stock," answered the ferryman in disgust. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
When he returned to Pembroke thirty years later, an old ferryman there remembered him. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of General Gordon] Reference
The repeated hallooings for the ferryman are at length responded to from far upstream. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
At that time my father was ferryman, and Mr. Burton wanted a boat to take him to Barton. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe] Reference
'Dear me Murdoch,' said Donald the ferryman, 'you surely, don't mean to go out to-night.'. From Wordnik.com. [Real Ghost Stories] Reference
"I swan," said the apathetic ferryman who had paid no attention to the previous confusion. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Wales Senior] Reference
At Newnham the ferryman stood knee-deep in the water washing his boat and hoping for a fare. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
The ferryman put about the head of his boat, and began to row back towards Andernach, as he had threatened. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
As she had been over so often, she said, the ferryman hardly ever asked her for her pass, for he knew her so well. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
When the poor ferryman recovered his senses, day had long dawned, and he was lying alone at the bottom of his boat. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
"Step in, then," said the ferryman, not over courteously, for he remembered the trick played on him by their predecessor. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
In his forty years 'experience of the river, the ferryman had never before beheld such a tempest -- so dreadful and so sudden. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
The ferryman looked surprised, then disgusted, and finally he turned an inquiring glance upon Joe, who said that Dan told the truth. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference
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