boatman

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The track, The Shadowy Light, paired her unmistakable voice with a cross-cultural ensemble, its imagery of a boatman guiding a soul across unknown waters reflecting on death and the afterlife.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

"I'm an old boatman, I have experienced another four floods in the village. This was the worst," he told media.

From Reuters • Sep. 9, 2023

Whenever he dropped a toy in the Nile, he said, a passing boatman would rescue it.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2022

Ford then noticed a small tender with a furiously waving boatman, who shouted that the plane had landed in a minefield.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2021

Perhaps it was Anna, who was married to Crocodile Guts, the boatman.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer