In 1718 he published a piece called Charon, or The Ferry-Boat, a Vision.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland]

Anon #5, I've considered the name Sharon a play on Charon, which is why I'm sure you suggested it.    From Wordnik.com.  [HH Com 227 (223)] Reference

And a multinational corporation in biopharmaceutics called the Charon Group is also active in the area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunter] Reference

The poem goes on in the same vein, with the vendor in the ticket booth being Charon, which is obvious without the poet mentioning it.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Is Not a Spade: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney] Reference

And, really, "Charon" would have been too obvious.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Lost' Dueling Analysis: 'The End'] Reference

The majority of the book takes place on the ship crossing the river, and if the captain isn't named "Charon," he probably should be.    From Wordnik.com.  [You know what time it is – it’s graphic novel time! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference

Its largest moon, Charon, is half its size!.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Moons Confirmed] Reference

But thou shalt hear him calling Charon back.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06] Reference

Dialogue, entitled "Charon," when Mercury points out the tomb of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century] Reference

But he allows figures of ancient mythology such as Charon, Minos and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atheism in Pagan Antiquity] Reference

Charon, that is excellent news.    From Wordnik.com.  [Want to submit to Ms R?] Reference

Charon, which is a moon, which is annoying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

Charon, and eventually was known as Brother Louis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference

Doubtless Charon claimed heavy compensation when the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference

Charon grew in size up ahead as the taxi approached.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference

Charon and his boat might be the means of conveyance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference

To send foes o'er the Styx in the barque of old Charon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 22, 1891] Reference

Charon, with eyes like flaming wheels, bore them across.    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

Charon is the ferryman; they who ride on the wave found a tomb.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

The mottled moonlet, Charon, orbited the mother planet tightly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference

Charon, attends with a ferry-boat to carry them to the other side, at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

Charon operations are to be fully automated and robotically maintained.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference

Charon drifted into view from over the horizon as the Raven nosed forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference

Step aboard the boat; Charon is waiting for you, you're keeping him from pushing off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference

Charon, but still Lancaster wondered if he weren't being ferried over the river of death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Security] Reference

Charon and the Slingshot Logistics Depot hung off near the edge of the tank's flattened top.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference

Charon says that emotional de­tachment eventually can drive doctors out of medicine altogether.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writer Will See You Now] Reference

Charon, however, suddenly appears upon the scene and seizes them just as they are about to flee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference

"Mehercle, be Charon propitious to thee when thy soul meets him at the river in Hades," he cried.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making] Reference

When Charon saw a living man among the dead he sternly ordered Dante to return whence he had come.    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

There is an ancient ferryman, Charon by name, who will pass you over in his little boat for a diobolus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference

All of them are unified by one principle, says Charon: "If you take the stories out of medicine, there's little left.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Med-School Makeover] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

Sometimes they left the Charon and the Cerberus moored by grape-vines to the pine-trees, and made expeditions into the woods single file.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference