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Jetting from here to the ferry crossing where Booth and Herold made their passage, Stanton receives a hot tip from a ferryman who witnessed Booth’s performance.
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2024
The blind ferryman Ayoub lives in the swamps of southern Iraq.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 18 May 2024
Even as few vehicles used the Rodolfo Robles bridge, the ferrymen went back and forth, back and forth, each time bringing more and more people to Mexico.
—David Culver, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
So the current heat wave, which is a reference to sort of Greek mythology to this ferryman who carried the dead across the waters of the Hades, the space that separates the living and the dead.
—Mark Sovel, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2024
The blind ferryman Ayoub lives in the swamps of southern Iraq.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 18 May 2024
Even as few vehicles used the Rodolfo Robles bridge, the ferrymen went back and forth, back and forth, each time bringing more and more people to Mexico.
—David Culver, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
So the current heat wave, which is a reference to sort of Greek mythology to this ferryman who carried the dead across the waters of the Hades, the space that separates the living and the dead.
—Mark Sovel, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
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“Ferryman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ferryman. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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