Sentence examples for ferry voyage from inspiring English sources

While on a ferry voyage in western Scotland, Mendelssohn was so struck by the misty scene and the crashing waves that a melody came into his mind, a melody with all the surge and power of the sea itself.

From Singapore it is a nearly three-hour trip involving a 55-minute ferry voyage to the island of Bintan, an hourlong drive across the island and a 30-minute boat ride to Nikoi.

Compliantly we pilgrims progressed on the hourlong express train ride to Shikokumura, the 40-minute walk to the glorious Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, the 30-minute taxi ride to Takamatsu station, and the peaceful hourlong ferry voyage to Naoshima Island.

After the ban on direct links was lifted earlier this month, he led the maiden ferry voyage to Xiamen, a mainland city of 1.2 million whose lights can be seen from Kinmen.

(His Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, was also known as the Scottish Symphony). While on a ferry voyage in western Scotland, Mendelssohn was so struck by the misty scene and the crashing waves that a melody came into his mind, a melody with all the surge and power of the sea itself.

It does not matter, though, with an author who is able to offer so many fresh and unexpected episodes; like a Channel ferry voyage he takes with his ailing father at the beginning of a trip to Lourdes, or the sun-kissed months he spent living with a changing cast of young friends in a caravan in the south of France.

There, groups of travelers chatted excitedly, watching the water parted by the ferry, whose voyage was smooth on a clear though windy day.

The couple had sailed to Sicily from Naples on a ferry and this voyage was very likely the inspiration behind "Südliche Küste abends" (Southern Coast at Evening), an almost childlike, but subtly constructed, vision of moonlit fishing boats bobbing on a dark-blue sea against a backdrop of soaring red mountains, painted in 1925.

When she departed Newport News on 7 October, Czar began her last voyage ferrying American troops to France.

To insure that the point is taken, a member of Saltaire's police force meets each ferry that makes the voyage from Bay Shore, L.I., six miles distant.

Rockaway Ferry Makes Its Maiden Voyage The new Rockaway ferry set sail from Breezy Point, at the tip of the Rockaways, to Lower Manhattan, with a stop in Brooklyn along the way.