"The boatman is a fool!" said Shuffles, impatiently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down the Rhine Young America in Germany] Reference

"LOOK out, Sim Shrimp!" called the boatman quickly, warningly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks or, Two Recruits in the United States Army] Reference

Likewise, the wish to achieve Buddhahood for oneself and all beings simultaneously is known as the boatman's way of generating bodhicitta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Integral Options Cafe] Reference

Asian carp are reviled as vanquishers of native species, feared as hefty jumpers able to break a boatman's jaw, and scorned as, well, carp.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant.] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hand of Ethelberta] Reference

The boatman is a freelance photographer called Nikola who assures us that "whoever comes here will return.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

At once she and the boatman engaged in a verbal duel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference

"It left here two hours ago," the boatman informed them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference

The boatman they engaged was a man of very low character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference

Once upon a time there was a husband and wife; the husband was a boatman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Popular Tales] Reference

The boatman steered carefully, but the engine was not yet working in good fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference

The coach, Miss Mallory, beckoned the assistant boatman and ordered out the launch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference

'Then,' said the boatman, 'the whole of your life is gone for this boat is sinking!'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference

Meanwhile, the head boatman winched up the other lines and gave me a fair field of action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference

Moved with pity he urged upon the boatman to go to his rescue and deliver him from drowning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference

Again, it is said that the boatman has as much to do with catching trout in a loch as the angler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scotch Loch-Fishing] Reference

A good boatman is a wonderful help in such a case; indeed without his help your chances are small.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scotch Loch-Fishing] Reference

Others, who did not own boats, hired them of a boatman below the estate, near the railroad bridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference

And goodness only knew when the gale would subside enough to tempt any other boatman out upon the bay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference

After this load full, the boatman would not ferry any more sheep over and we were compelled to swim them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference

"He is quite a boatman," remarked Bess, watching the man ply his oars, and make rapid progress up the lake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference

The boatman shook his head at the small Bulldog I put on; he would have preferred a darker fly, salmon size.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference

Inuit, for if a kayak upsets and the boatman is drowned, Ka-lo-pa-ling grabs him and puts him into the hood.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treasury of Eskimo Tales] Reference

After they had spent some time on the raft, drifting aimlessly on the river, a boatman had towed them ashore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

Their boatman sang songs to her, -- strange songs that thrilled her, though she did not understand the words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference

Belle dear, "continued Ed," until suddenly the boatman interrupted him with: 'Say, did you ever study swimming?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference

The cabin of Tom Pearce, the boatman, was an ordinary fisherman's hut, built in the midst of white sand-hills, with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference

In an untried loch it is necessary to have the guidance of a good boatman; but the same argument holds good as to stream-fishing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scotch Loch-Fishing] Reference

The charge for boatman is 5s. to 6s. and lunch; and though this seems high, it must not be forgotten that the distances are great.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scotch Loch-Fishing] Reference

The canoe came ashore, I greeted the boatman, and together we walked up toward the camp, the hound following us in a leisurely fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

If such a one has engaged a boat, he arms each boatman with a rod, and, of course, fishes himself, thus having three rods going at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scotch Loch-Fishing] Reference