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  • noun Alternative form of ferryboat.

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Examples

  • "You have given me a glimpse of fairyland," Martin said on the ferry-boat.

    Chapter 36 2010

  • But it was time to catch the last ferry-boat for Oakland, and

    Chapter 36 2010

  • The novella details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company.

    Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • And while Arthur took up the tale, for the twentieth time, of his adventure with the drunken hoodlums on the ferry-boat and of how

    Chapter 2 2010

  • The unseen ferry-boat was blowing blast after blast, and the mouth-blown horn was tooting in terror-stricken fashion.

    Chapter 1 2010

  • The novella details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • Nothing is going to be lost -- not one pile out of the docks, not one railroad spike, not one ounce of steam out of the gauge of a ferry-boat.

    Chapter XXIII 2010

  • He sat down on the opposite side of the ferry-boat and stared at me.

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

  • Once, warning against the perils of bootleg liquor, he told the story of a young woman on a Hoboken ferry-boat who took a drink from a flask carried in the pocket of her escort.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Once, warning against the perils of bootleg liquor, he told the story of a young woman on a Hoboken ferry-boat who took a drink from a flask carried in the pocket of her escort.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

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