Examples of ferry

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On the other hand, tugs, construction site machinery, docks, and ferries belong to the city's unofficial existence.
Two young men are ferried to the island by an old man and his young niece.
The system of sorting mail as it was ferried between major postal terminals proceeded as follows.
Aeroplanes, railways, ferries and cars make migration possible.
However, his first task was skippering the landing pontoon, ferrying stores from ship to shore.
After that for ferries, but not other classes of vessel, boarding passes were introduced.
The new station is inconvenient to pedestrians, being a considerable walk from the ferries' landing stage.
Lost in this abridgment are the city dwellers, seen always at a distance as black dots scurrying along on sun-drenched pavements or as a compact mass in ferries and thoroughfares.
What (if any) machine or technical device lies "between" us in this questioning (signs, language, the ferry)?
On a ferry ride, one was witness to the entirety of the life and context of the city.
At this time, however, the government concentrated on fortifying relatively few but central places, especially at the frontiers and the most important ferry stations.
In three sites, transfer of patients to larger hospital facilities required an emergency volunteer ferry service or airlift.
The audience travelled by ferry between various wharves where most of the performances took place.
A casual inspection of the ferry steamers revealed that they were full of mosquitos.
He waited for all the other cars to depart the ferry, assuming (incorrectly) that the last car off would draw less scrutiny.
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