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Ferrying

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Ferrying
Charon
ferries dead across the river Styx. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Hall, 147; Ital. Lit.: Inferno.]
Christopher, St.
took the Christ child and the weak across river. [Christian Hagiog.: Hall, 68]
Julian the Hospitaler
carries leper across river. [Christian Hagiog.: Hall, 181]
Phlegyas
conveyed Dante and Virgil through Stygian marsh. [Ital. Lit.: Inferno]
Siddharta
“one who has attained goal,” personified in ferryman role. [Ger. Lit.: Siddharta]
Tuck, Friar
jolly member of Robin Hood’s gang; carries Robin over stream but dumps him coming back. [Br. Lit.: Robin Hood]
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"Ogg the son of Beorl," says my private hagiographer, "was a boatman who gained a scanty living by ferrying passengers across the river Floss.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
The husband and lover could not well do otherwise, and they were fain to become deeply interested, it is true, but passive spectators of this primitive species of ferrying.
The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
 
 
 
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