How To Use Boatman In A Sentence
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The only way to reach the building was by airboat, piloted by an Everglades boatman, as all streets were impassable from fallen trees, flood waters or both.
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Lt Welch has a team of 31, including 27 divers, an administrative assistant, a boatman and two artificers to maintain their equipment.
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In his years as lifeboatman Samuel Tyler had helped save a total of 233 lives.
THE MAIN CAGES
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The upstairs was used for the Boatmans Locker, a boating accessories and chandlery shop run by Joe and Mary Barker.
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Boatman never knows what's coming next, even as he checks dispatch calls crackling over his radio - a necessary distraction.
The Orange County Register - News Headlines : Top Stories
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He was a boatman, like her brother and father, a Scillonian, respected by the other men on the quay and on the fishing boats.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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They greatly improved his boatmanship, and strengthened his growing muscles.
Alec Forbes of Howglen
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(He turns to the harbor and calls seaward) Ho there, boatman!
Caesar and Cleopatra
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Certain it was that The Big Mallard was the supreme test of courage and boatmanship.
The Man from the Bitter Roots
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I have never so much as thought of giving the boatman five daler for your shoe.
Pan
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Early in March, before the first male canker-moth appears on the elm-tree, the whirlwig beetles have begun to play round the broken edges of the ice, and the caddis-worms to crawl beneath it; and soon come the water-skater _ (Gerris) _ and the water-boatman _ (Notonecta) _.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861
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`I suppose you heard about the body brought in by a boatman ?
THE QUEST FOR K
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On our way back, via the high ridge to the west, through Langton Matravers and Kingston, we began to understand why Thomas Hardy called Swanage a town "where everybody who was not a boatman was a quarrier".
Country diary: Isle of Purbeck
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The courage of our boatman was a little dashed; he suggested that we leave Ramon, Louis, and Manuel on an old scow standing on the bank and fast going to ruin, while he poled myself and the luggage over, after which he would return for my companions.
In Indian Mexico (1908)
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A better boatman, Clark usually stayed on the keelboat while Lewis walked on shore and made his scientific observations.
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Behind her she heard a yell, and urged the boatman on, over the dark, sinister lagoon.
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Clad in sou'wester and thigh boots, his rugged, bearded features are every inch the Victorian lifeboatman.
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From the depot he hurried through the quaint Japanese streets to the harbor, and hired a sampan boatman to put him aboard a certain vessel whose familiar rigging had quickly caught his eye.
The Lost Poacher
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I got sand and covered the bottom; I found two jagged stones and leaned them against each other on the sand; I gathered fronds of ulva latissima; I persuaded a boatman to bring me a bucket of salt-water from beyond the line of breakers, and I poured it carefully into the jar.
Hawthorne and His Circle
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Ferries have crossed the River Severn between Newnham and Arlingham since Roman times, but the last boatman packed up in 1947.
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Sitting in his small wooden boat, an old boatman surnamed Wu warmed up a pot of yellow rice wine, then carefully poured it into a bowl for himself.
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He wasn't going to accuse her of being a fair-weather boatman.
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And as for the five _daler_ to the boatman -- she gave him the money herself.
Pan
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Colin gave his little sister -- of whom he was very fond -- an unobserved hug, and then fairly sped down to the end of the pier and called a boatman to take him off.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries
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Which of them would have believed that a mere boatman could infiltrate their world?
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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A lifeboatman yesterday branded the would-be seadog, who earlier this month ran the vessel aground, a 'nightmare'.
The Sun
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A scholar asked a boatman to row him across the river.
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In Egypt your Nubian sailor prays in the stern of your dahabiyeh; and your Egyptian boatman prays by the rudder of your boat; and your black donkey-boy prays behind a red rock in the sand; and your camel-man prays when you are resting in the noontide, watching the far-off quivering mirage, lost in some wayward dream.
The Spell of Egypt
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Sir Stephen, already worried by the difficulty with Clephane and his pony, and angry with his sister for quitting the party, spoke with savage impatience to the old boatman, and assisted, himself, in shoving off the boat, and putting up the tiny sail.
Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
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The boatman is a fool!" said Shuffles, impatiently.
Down the Rhine Young America in Germany
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The stoic expression on Buddy's weathered face was almost identical to that of the other boatman as the boats closed rapidly on each other.
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Enter from the north bank, downstream from the bridge at the Tweed boatman's mooring site.
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After arriving at Fern Island, they had to hire a boatman to take them to Goldworth Isle.
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And as for the five daler to the boatman — she gave him the money herself.
Pan
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The boatman was willing to risk ferrying them across.
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Founding Chairman of the Newry Canal Preservation Society, John was a boatman, a sailor, a windsurfer and a musician from the Showband days.
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There was such a boat jam on the way that it took all the expertise and skillfulness of the boatman to reach the take off point.
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Lt Welch has a team of 31, including 27 divers, an administrative assistant, a boatman and two artificers to maintain their equipment.
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The water was now running in, submerging first one slab of slimy rock and then another, and the four men in the boat -- the workmen, that is, the boatman, and Mr. Fison -- now turned their attention from the bearings off shore to the water beneath the keel.
The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
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The boatman gave him a critical look, wondering no doubt why we employed such a dirty fellow.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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She was the St Mary's fast-afloat self-righting Arun-class lifeboat and Hal Carter was not just a Sallonian and a boatman.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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The now derelict site, next to one of England's most treasured heritage sites, has been a blot on the landscape since the Jolly Boatman pub was demolished.
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The boatman beaches us on a spit of land leading up to a stone house surrounded by willows.
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The boatman steers the boat out into the current where Paul and his fellow co-celebrity, Scotland rugby star Rob Wainwright, make the first casts of the season.
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The boatman steers the boat out into the current where Paul and his fellow co-celebrity, Scotland rugby star Rob Wainwright, make the first casts of the season.
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Edgerton, he began rowing towards me with Annabel, she happy despite herself, and when I see it wouldn't do to tarry no longer, I cuts loose the old deaf boatman and unstops his mouth.
Lahoma
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Instead, follow the river where it goes, and after a time, when the rapids no longer swirl and bash, you may hire a boatman to take you where you wish.
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The boatman refused to row him back.
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Everybody in the parish who was not a boatman was a quarrier, unless he were the gentleman who owned half the property and had been a quarryman, or the other gentleman who owned the other half, and had been to sea.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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The boatman gave him a critical look, wondering no doubt why we employed such a dirty fellow.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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Ain 'no trouble hyeh," the boatman said, shrugging his shoulders,
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries
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The isolated life, if at times adventurous, was always harsh and ultimately meagre of reward; it was essential to work as lumberman, teamster or boatman to help pay one's way.
Insightful Economist At Work - The Austrian Economists
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The boatman beaches us on a spit of land leading up to a stone house surrounded by willows.
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A lifeboatman yesterday branded the would-be seadog, who earlier this month ran the vessel aground, a 'nightmare'.
The Sun
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The sum which he demanded appeared exorbitant to the hadji, who, forgetting that he was a saint, and fresh from Mecca, fumed outrageously, and in broken Spanish called the boatman thief.
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
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When Mr. Presby, from the roof of the conservatory, had noted the direction he took, he had closed the window, and called the boatman to assist him.
In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant.
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LOOK out, Sim Shrimp!" called the boatman quickly, warningly.
Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks or, Two Recruits in the United States Army
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Scientists have found that an aquatic insect known as a backswimmer, which is similar a water boatman, releases a "scent" that scares off mosquitoes - although it cannot be picked up by the human nose.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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Behind them, on the island, glorious dark-pink roseate spoonbills roost in the dry trees; further on, flamingos delicately lift into the sky when the boatman claps his hands.
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The boatman had unshipped his oars in time, but his small craft groaned under the pressure and threatened to collapse.
CHAPTER I
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I have never so much as thought of giving the boatman five _daler_ for your shoe.
Pan
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Clad in sou'wester and thigh boots, his rugged, bearded features are every inch the Victorian lifeboatman.
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But most of all he was a lifeboatman and tonight he was in his element.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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We concealed our case and abode on coals of fire till nightfall, when I opened the river-gate and, calling the boatman who had carried us the night before, said to him, 'I know not what is become of my mistress; so take me in the boat, that we may go seek her on the river: haply I shall chance on some news of her.
Arabian nights. English
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The cooter is the terrapin, and a very expert boatman he is.
Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America
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With superb boatmanship he threaded the narrow, tortuous channel which no craft larger than a whaleboat could negotiate, until the shoals and patches showed seaward and they grounded on the quiet, rippling beach.
A SON OF THE SUN
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Not all is lost though, for about twenty five pounds sterling you can hire a boatman for six hours and have him anchor within casting distance of the feeding fish.
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Miss Prosody, quite genial and urbane after luncheon, was deep in consultation with the boatman as to the locality of certain ferns she proposed spudding up for her pet rockery at "The Maples," where her lighter hours were diurnally spent in washing and tending her spoils.
Bluebell A Novel
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Bhim, our Nepalese boatman on the sweep oar, skillfully hauls the raft around so that we hit the wave bow-on.
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`I suppose you heard about the body brought in by a boatman ?
THE QUEST FOR K
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Which of them would have believed that a mere boatman could infiltrate their world?
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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The boatman was willing to risk ferrying them across.
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He was a boatman, like her brother and father, a Scillonian, respected by the other men on the quay and on the fishing boats.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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Timson, a lifeboatman to the end, used the last of his strength to sit upright and try to stand.
LET NOT THE DEEP
