1145 examples of ferried in sentences

And they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed.

One of the wounded converts was up, and hobbling with a stick; but the other would never be ferried down any stream known to man.

He himself was at M'Quarrie's; but his men obligingly came with their long-boat, and ferried us over.

P. 16, l. 252, A boat, two-oared.]She sees Charon, the boatman who ferried the souls of the dead across the river Styx.

They ferried us over in the first place, and then our carts; and their boats were so small that they were obliged to use two boats tied together for one cart, putting a wheel into each.

Beyond this place the Tartars advance no farther to the north, and they were now, about the first of August, beginning to return into the south; and they have another village somewhat lower down the river, where passengers are ferried over in winter.

Most of the stone bridges in the district are in ruins, and the traveller is obliged to content himself with wading through a ford, or get himself ferried across upon a raft or in a small canoe, while his horse swims behind him.

Once I saw a ploughman and his team of oxen being ferried across the lake on a bulrush raft.

"Do you know, sir," said a citizen to a traveller, who, in 1819, was passing the road from Arcola to Eaglesville,"do you know, sir, who is that fine-looking man who has just ferried you across the creek?"

Some, as of old, would take boats and float down the Ohio; others would go on to Wheeling, be ferried across the river, and push into Ohio or Indiana or Illinois, there to "take up" a quarter section (160 acres) of government land, or buy or rent a "clearing" from some shiftless settler of an earlier day.

He sets out against Sir Guyon, but being ferried over Idle Lake, abandons himself to self-indulgence, and is slain by King Arthur (canto 8).Spencer, Faery Queen, ii. 5, etc. (1590). CYMOD'OCE (4 syl.).

They said good-bye to the destroyer men who had ferried them across, and climbed the ladder to the deck, where they were immediately surrounded and smacked on the back, and generally congratulated.

My heroes, of course, were Shivram Borkar and Babal Borkar, ace drivers who by day ferried the shift editorial staff to and from quarters in Margao to office in Davorlim .

It came as a shock to one's post-teenage idealism to hear Rajan argue after being ferried to a lengthy confabulation with a Congress dissident: "XYZ is a good politician.

In it the houndsa motley and rather worthless lotand the rest of the party were ferried across to the opposite bank, while Colonel Rondon and I stayed in the boat, on the chance that a tapir might be roused and take to the river.

That very night the Indian chief ferried his men across the river on rafts, six or eight miles above the forks, and by dawn was on the point of hurling his whole force, of nearly a thousand warriors on the camp of his slumbering foes.

But the great difficulty came in crossing the creeks, where the banks were rotten, the bottom bad, or the water deep; then the horses would get mired down and wet their packs, or they would have to be swum across while their loads were ferried over on logs.

Then I heard a trampling, a jingling, a bustling, and rushing, nearer and nearer; it went forward to my boat, and all stepped into it, men and women; as it seemed, and children; and the tall stranger ferried them over.

When we departed, late in the afternoon, four stout negroes ferried us across the river.

" He was told that the horses should be ferried across and taken care of.

They were in fine spirits, however, and we cheerfully took our breakfast and were ferried over the river to continue on the trail from that point to Bellefontaine, twelve miles distant from Fort Winnebago.

CHARON, in the Greek mythology the ferryman of the ghosts of the dead over the Styx into Hades, a grim old figure with a mean dress and a dirty beard, peremptory in exacting from the ghosts he ferried over the obolus allowed him for passage-money.

In the night they were ferried across, and Grant's outlying commands were brought to the front.

They deemed me fairly settled, As though just ferried o'er the Styx, But I was tougher mettled.

Esbern flew through the island on his fleet horse in Valdemar's clothes, leading his pursuers a merry dance, and when the young King's wound was healed, he found him a boat and ferried him across to the mainland, where the people flocked to his standard.

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