Sentences with phrase «ferrymen who»

The earlier inn used to often house ferrymen who took passengers across the Kennebunk River, but today it's a relaxing family vacation destination.

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

I'd been posting on a wide range of softball - related forums, responding to ads on Craigslist, asking my softball teammates for any «ins,» even cold - calling / texting online retailers, trying to track down just one ferryman who'd allow a glimpse into this secret world.

As the mythology would tell it, Charon is the ferryman who trucks souls across the River Styx and into Hades proper.

Charon, the ferryman who transported souls across the River Styx to the realms of the dead in the myths of the Greeks, was appropriated by Dante to serve that same purpose in a more Catholic and more punitive version of the afterlife in the Inferno.