boatman
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According to legend, it took rough and rugged characters to tame the early American frontier: men like Daniel Boone, the trailblazer, or Mike Fink, the brawling river boatman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
The track, The Shadowy Light, paired her unmistakable voice with a cross-cultural ensemble, its imagery of a boatman guiding a soul across unknown waters reflecting on death and the afterlife.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
"I'm an old boatman, I have experienced another four floods in the village. This was the worst," he told media.
From Reuters ● Sep. 9, 2023
Levin Dukes, a boatman, built the house and was its first occupant.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023
The boatman nods to my mother and taps his wrist, to signal time to get off.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
Certainly the good Samaritans must have known the two boatmen were not going to be put on trial, owing to lack of evidence.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2025
The famous Dal Lake, as seen in the picture above, and other water bodies in Kashmir have partially frozen, making it hard for boatmen to ferry passengers and tourists.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2024
Just before the accident, onlookers from the river bank were shouting at the boatmen to navigate carefully.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
What takes me by surprise is the warmth of the boatmen, Italian American, old, kind, used to Hindu families carrying out the ritual of scattering ashes on water.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2022
He went in a rowboat with a couple of young fishermen of Low Torning, who wanted the honor of being his boatmen.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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