ferry-boats

Though people were no longer buying residence lots and factory and business sites, they were compelled to ride on his cars and ferry-boats and to consume his water.

Chapter XX 2010

Seeing as I had to have ferry-boats, I decided to build them myself.

Chapter XVI 2010

We are walking along the pier when I notice that the river in front of us is spotted by clouds of ferry-boats, each helmed by a single guy in a massive reed hat.

Zac Hill: Being Cool With Having Stuff: At-Least-Potentially Guilt-Free Super Bowl Cruising Zac Hill 2011

Between the two cities they could see the white ferry-boats on the water.

Chapter XVI 2010

Twenty stories below lay the alternate glare and gloom of the city; far in the distance the lights of the ferry-boats plodded across the harbor like weary fireflies.

Dear Carl Ginny Woods 2010

We passed between the ferry-boats, then jibed to the right and went out past the lighthouse.

Third Strike Philip R. Craig 2007

We passed between the ferry-boats, then jibed to the right and went out past the lighthouse.

Third Strike Philip R. Craig 2007

Crossing from among them to the opposite shore, were steam ferry-boats laden with people, coaches, horses, waggons, baskets, boxes: crossed and recrossed by other ferry-boats: all travelling to and fro: and never idle.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

After encountering more than the usual crush in Broadway, for we were rather more than an hour in driving three miles in a stage, we crossed the Brooklyn Ferry in one of those palace ferry-boats, where the spacious rooms for passengers are heated by steam-pipes, and the charge is only one cent, or a fraction less than a halfpenny.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

She also marvelled at the whistles of the hundreds of vessels in the harbour — the long, low cries of the Sound steamers and ferry-boats when fog was on.

Sister Carrie 2004