Etymology
Origin of waftage
Example Sentences
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S. A ship you sent me to, to hire waftage.
From The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Clark, William George
Surely it is the line which describes the ghosts, staying for waftage on the banks of the river, and stretching out their hands in passionate desire to the further shore: Tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore.
From Romance Two Lectures by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
I stalk about her door Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks Staying for waftage.
From Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare, William
If, aged Charon, when my life shall end, I pass thy ferry and my waftage pay, Thy oars shall fall, thy boat and mast shall rend, And through the deep shall be a dry foot-way.
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Crow, Martha Foote
Thus Trimalchio says, 'I threw thy Cerberus a sleepy morsel, And paid thy Charon for my waftage over, And I have a golden sprig for my Proserpina.
From The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' by Awdeley, John
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