ferryman

Example Sentences

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As an employee of a Manhattan establishment that catered to traveling assassins, Charon — named after the ferryman of Hades in Greek mythology — was the soul of discretion.

From New York Times

In the ancient Mediterranean, people sometimes placed a coin in the mouth, on the eyes, or in the ashes of the dead, a fare for the mythological ferryman to take souls to the underworld.

From New York Times

The narrator spends much of her time with an old man, a former ferryman who lives on a boat that now registers to them only as an unusable object.

From The New Yorker

The movie is also more creature feature than paranormal opus as the girls encounter that bloody bride, a ferryman and his victims, a werewolf and Annabelle’s ferocious ram-horned demon.

From Washington Times

From swimmers to sewage workers, boatbuilders to bailiffs, salmon fishers to ferryman, the voices are varied and vividly brought to life.

From The Guardian