ferryman

How to use ferryman in a sentence

• You think of the ferryman in the Middle Ages, who basically said, yeah, you got to pay me if you want to cross the river here or pay a bridge toll.

  Building a better data economy | Jason Sparapani | March 11, 2021 | MIT Technology Review

• “Whenever we git there,” said Jimmy, pushing off the launch and waving his hand to the ferryman.

  Mr. Opp | Alice Hegan Rice

• He merely repeated: "I'm the ferryman, and it's my business to carry people across the lake."

  Little Wizard Stories of Oz | L. Frank Baum

• Looking at the ferryman more closely she saw that he had small eyes, a big nose, and a sharp chin.

  Little Wizard Stories of Oz | L. Frank Baum

• 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.

  The Mysteries of All Nations | James Grant