Sentence examples for boat passage from inspiring English sources

Those who have the means pay for airplane travel, avoiding what are widely acknowledged to be the greater hazards and hardships of an overland or boat passage.

For many years it has been the duty of a secretary of the Bank of England named E. Skinner to engage boat passage for officers of the bank.

Local Transport My boat passage from Ha'apai to Vava'u on the Pulupaki, one of two regular ferry connections between the Tongan islands, cost $14.50.

One solution would be to recreate the natural barrier between Lake Erie and the Hudson River by building a barricade along the Erie Canal that would allow essential canal operations like recreational boat passage while impeding the movement of invaders.

In enclosed water bodies with strong currents (such as bays and sounds), turbid channels show up on Landsat imagery, showing where currents are carving deeper channels that are safe for boat passage.

Within days, attempting to find boat passage across the North ­Pacific threatened to thwart our plans.

Once in Libya, they find themselves at the mercy of smugglers operating the dangerous boat passages across the Mediterranean.

This first characteristic is embodied practically, in the bridge's function as a swing bridge that allows boats' passage, as well as aesthetically, in the LED threads which transition the structure from day to night.

Yi Sunsin's Nanjung ilgi ("Diary of the War") and his sijo, Pak Il-Lo's Sŏnsangt'an ("Boat-Passage Lament"), Yu Sŏng-Nyong's Chingbi rok ("Record of Learning from Mistakes"), and Kang Hang's Kanyang nok ("Record of a Shepherd") all recount the Japanese invasion and illustrate its trials and tribulations.

The person who would become the 16th president began his public career advocating canal construction in Illinois, and in 1849, before he became a prosperous railroad lawyer, he received U.S. Patent No. 6469 for a device to facilitate boats' passages over sandbars and shallow water.

"Passage across" (in Strabo) means the usual boat-passage, but the terminal points of this passage are now unknown.