Sentences with phrase «boatman who»

Enjoy an hour filled with insighful learnings courtesy of your boatman who will take your journey from one constellation after the other, from mangroves to plankton and to every interesting detail there is to fireflies.

«We've poisoned it all,» mourns Davide Casati, an aged boatman who treats Brunetti to languorous tours of the floating islands on the graceful, gondola - like rowing boat he built with his own hands.

He's a River Styx boatman who leads his own personal Cerberus around via a very short leash, the gifted demonic mimic able to contort his body in a manner that ups the anxiety quotient every time he makes an impromptu appearance.

The boatmen who bring the refugees across from Myanmar are charging $ 120 a person, which pretty much strips these people of the last of their assets.

Thanks also to boatmen who let me hitch going and coming out of the islands.

Not exact matches

The boatman is Charon, the mythical ferryman who carries souls across the river Styx and into the underworld.

Unfortunately, the good doctor is out of town for two days, so Armand ends up talking with his stern, moralistic housekeeper Louise (Helen McCrory) and his mysterious daughter Marguerite (Saoirse Ronan), who denies knowing Vincent well even though a local boatman (Aidan Turner) saw them rowing together.

Actor Luke Evans enters the fray as Bard the boatman, a man who is more than meets the eye and our company's ticket into Laketown, where a shrewd Mayor played by Stephen Fry awaits them.

Ghosh gives the reader a veritable feast of characters: Deeti, the strong - willed wife of Ghazipur opium addict, Hukam Singh; Hukam's uncle ruthless Bhyro, a recruiter of migrant labourers; carpenter Zachary Reid, the son of a Baltimore Negro freedwoman and her white master; Burnham, merchant and closet masochist; Jodu, a boatman; Raja Neel Rattan Halder, a debt - ridden zemindar; Serang Ali, leader of the lascar seamen; James Doughty, a pilot for ships entering Culcutta; Kalua, a low - caste ox - cart driver; Paulette Lambert, the feisty orphaned daughter of a French botanist; Baboo Nob Kissin Pander, Burnham's accountant who is a virgin celibate with strong religious beliefs; Captain Chillingworth, engaged for his last sea - voyage; first - mate Jack Crowle, a man with an inferiority complex and a sizeable cruel streak; and Chinese - Indian opium addict, Ah Fatt.

Both the despotic militants, who rule without true governance, and the ragged bands of fighters who resist them, vie for the boatman's support, and Marquos is drawn into a war many others don't realise exists.

Although I usually stay away from guided tours of any kind, we did meet up with a local boatman, a fourth - generation islander with a rich local accent — something like a cross between the deep south and Old English — who took us around the island and peppered his talk with references to what «used to be here,» or «burned down there,» or «went bankrupt over there.»

It tells the story of Mathew Gross, 31, the former rock band drummer, Colorado River boatman, and environmental studies graduate student, who is now Howard Dean's full - time blogmaster.