His father, by accident, neglected to furnish him the money with which to pay his ferriage. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
System, thus avoiding the long ferriage from Jersey City around the harbor to the Harlem River. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Paper No. 1150] Reference
Blackford reached Washington too late to present his claim for ferriage to the Board which had met on June 4. From Wordnik.com. [Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839,] Reference
After crossing the Green by another iron bridge substituted for rope-ferriage, our first important station will be Fort Bridger. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
The final demand for ferriage across was eight yards of cloth and four fundo9 of sami-sami, or red beads; which was at once paid. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
They were premitted to hire extra labor at rush periods and to spend money from the ferriage receipts without specific authorization. From Wordnik.com. [Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839,] Reference
For the ferriage he took money, since that was his business; for the night's lodging and supper and breakfast he would have none of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
Every ferry keeper in Illinois had to maintain “a post or board, on which shall be written the rates of ferriage … by law allowed.”. From Wordnik.com. [A History of American Law] Reference
I dined at Col. Millers, returned home in the evening. a wagoner with a 6-Horse team passed on without paying his ferriage 87 1/2 Miss E. James came over with Helena & C.K. from. From Wordnik.com. [Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839,] Reference
All those who are acquainted with the Old Port of Marseilles know the inconvenience of communication between one shore and the other, and the high price of ferriage by row boats. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881] Reference
I paid for my ferriage going and coming six dollars. From Wordnik.com. [Camps and Firesides of the Revolution] Reference
My partner and I never asked the price of this ferriage. From Wordnik.com. [With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon] Reference
"Have you any change," said Mr. George, "to pay your ferriage back?". From Wordnik.com. [Rollo in Paris] Reference
The ferriage then was by trig, long, sharp-bowed, black paddle steamers, with raking funnels. From Wordnik.com. [From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life] Reference
"If you will tell me what the usual ferriage is, I can then tell you whether we wish to go or not.". From Wordnik.com. [Rollo in Paris] Reference
Ferries are admitted only at such places as are particularly pointed out by law, and the rates of ferriage are fixed. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on the State of Virginia.] Reference
The ferriage would amount to six dollars, and how he was to raise this sum he was, for a time, at a loss to determine. From Wordnik.com. [Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made] Reference
Turkey Neck Bend, several miles below Burkesville, was scarcely so well provided with the means of ferriage as myself. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War] Reference
The lake was angry and white-capped, and though a hundred caches were waiting ferriage, no boats were plying back and forth. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of the Snows] Reference
There were so few boats on the creek, and the current, in time of freshets, was so strong, that ferriage was seldom thought of. From Wordnik.com. [What Might Have Been Expected] Reference
Had not he dealt satisfactorily with all, whether it was in the line of ferriage or in the providing of boats for pleasure-trips up the river?. From Wordnik.com. [A House-Boat on the Styx] Reference
When all other means fail, our subject visits the different ferries, and there asks the persons about to cross for enough to pay his ferriage. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the Great City] Reference
We learn from the Massachusetts Laws that often a rider had to let his horse cross by swimming over, being guided from the ferry-boat; he then paid no ferriage for the horse. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
A quarter then, with the ferriage and toll-gates, if you walked to. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl of Long Ago] Reference
My ferriage was three dollars. From Wordnik.com. [Camps and Firesides of the Revolution] Reference
For me the ferriage of myself alone. From Wordnik.com. [Avons Harvest. VIII. Avons Harvest, Etc] Reference
To Hen Bell 8S for ferriage signd Conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Carter Diary, 1724] Reference
Pistol mrs Hooper 10 bitts for her ferriage. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Carter Diary, 1724] Reference
Here there was a further delaying for ferriage. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
In ferriage, but lost his pocket-book, containing. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
Right of ferriage. From Wordnik.com. [The Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, from the Institution of the Government, February 8, 1861, to its Termination, February 18, 1862, Inclusive. Arranged in Chronological Order. Together with the Constitution for the Provisional Government, and the Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States, and the Treaties Concluded by the Confederate States with Indian Tribes:] Reference
"What's the ferriage?". From Wordnik.com. [Rollo in Paris] Reference
84; ferriage, receipts, 34. From Wordnik.com. [Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839,] Reference
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