charon-like

Updated: June 13, 2025

Here was a ferry with its Charon-like boat, of the primitive sort flat barge, poled over by negroes, and capable of containing at one time many bales of cotton, a stagecoach or wagon with four horses, besides passengers ad libitum. This ferry constituted the chief source of revenue of Madame Grambeau, an old French lady, remarkable in many ways.

Catherine A. (Catherine Ann) Warfield - Miriam Monfort: A Novel

But I was weary and disheartened, and welcomed with a sigh of relief the closing of the show. As we passed out with our guide, the glare of many torches falling on the dark silent river made the swarthy forms of the boatmen weird and Charon-like. Mrs.

Anna Harriette Leonowens - The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok