Ferrymen

Two women "ferrymen" found room to row in front, the coachman attended to his horses, one of which was inclined to be restive, while a man, whose flaxen hair was so light it looked positively white against his red burnt neck, stood rowing behind us; and thus in three-quarters of an hour we reached the other side, in as wonderful a transport as the trains we had seen put on steamers in Denmark, Sicily, or the States, but much more exciting and primitive. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

“As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen,” he says, recounting his bouts with writer's block, depression, dry flaky skin and existential torment. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

Trade isn't exactly brisk, although there's a handful of regular commuters and up to 100 ramblers on good days, so ferrymen traditionally find something else to do. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The lieutenant, in turn, who knew all the "rules and regulations" by heart, explained that the harbor police were not ferrymen, and that the police-boats had other functions to perform than that of transporting belated and penniless sailor-men to their ships. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are broad river estuaries to be crossed, and ferrymen waiting with rickety old wooden rowing boats. ❋ Gavin Bell (2010)

The runaway law of 1714 penalized ferrymen who carried slaves out of the colony without authorization from their masters. ❋ Maggiemac (2008)

The girl shares her stories with the enthralled young heir to the Sultanate, who returns again and again to hear incredible yarns about one-armed heroes, hunchbacked ferrymen, giants, voracious gem eaters, conniving hedgehogs, harpies, djinns and singing Manticores. ❋ Yuki_onna (2007)

In arranging their wedding, John and Carolyn set in motion a covert operation of monumental proportions, demanding signed statements of confidentiality from everyone connected to the event, starting with waiters hired for the meals and ending with ferrymen needed to transport the forty select guests to remote Cumberland Island, forty-five minutes by boat off the southeast coast of Georgia. ❋ C. David Heymann (2007)

The real town of Anogi inched closer as the ferrymen plied the big oars—a free-moving ferry, this, the Hisei being too big and too trafficked to be crossed with ropes—a kind of barge that described a crescent-shaped course from shore to shore, a compromise with the current, while larger and smaller craft bound downriver went straight courses past, fishing boats and cargo boats and such. ❋ Cherryh, C. J. (2005)

The ferrymen came on to the river-bank, putting on their torn sheepskins as they walked, swearing with voices husky from sleepiness and shivering from the cold. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The Tatar and the three ferrymen took the long, broad-bladed oars, which in the darkness looked like the claws of crabs; Semyon leaned his stomach against the tiller. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The shout on the other side still continued, and two shots were fired from a revolver, probably with the idea that the ferrymen were asleep or had gone to the pot-house in the village. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The ferrymen casually asked one of my Batoka if they had rivers in his country, and he answered with truth, “No, we have none.” ❋ Unknown (2004)

I left some beads as payment for some meal which had been presented by the ferrymen; and, the canoe having been left on their own side of the river, Pitsane and his companions laughed uproariously at the disgust our enemies would feel, and their perplexity as to who had been our paddler across. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The ferrymen had found that two fundo of these were of short measure, and two fundo more must be paid, otherwise the contract for ferrying us across would be considered null and void. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)

OLD SEMYON, nicknamed Canny, and a young Tatar, whom no one knew by name, were sitting on the river-bank by the camp-fire; the other three ferrymen were in the hut. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In another week, when the floods were quite ov er and they set the ferry going, none of the ferrymen but Semyon would be wanted, and the Tatar would begin going from village to village begging for alms and for work. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Close to the bank there was the dark blur of a big barge, which the ferrymen called a “karbos.” ❋ Unknown (2004)

The ferrymen swung the oars evenly in time; Semyon lay with his stomach on the tiller and, describing a semicircle in the air, flew from one side to the other. ❋ Unknown (2004)