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1. line of cement jetties
2. We stopped and gazed vacantly across at the remains of jetties and villas on the other side of a swamp that had once been a canal
3. Although the harbour walls and jetties had been built up several meters to combat the rising sea level, there was nothing to be found of any use and he was beginning to accept that it was likely to be the same story at all the other small ports spread along the south-westerly Spanish coast
4. After searching along the deserted jetties, Siri was delighted to find the occasional taught mooring line running into deep water, but each discovery was followed by disappointment at finding that they were attached to larger power-boats
5. They were kissing on her gravelly drive one minute and at the bank the next, holding hands on the jetties, about to jump
6. He held her close, keeping her warm, and was about to kiss her again when they heard the crunch of footsteps along the jetties
7. ” Here there was little sand compared to the beach at Punta Arena, mostly boulders and gravel along the shoreline, and one stretch of rock that formed jetties on the eastern side
8. "Unfortunately," he went on, "I can't take you through that Suez Canal, but the day after tomorrow, you'll be able to see the long jetties of Port Said when we're in the Mediterranean
9. the jetties of Port Said stretching out to sea
10. He took them to the jetties where half the city also went after nightfall, he took them wherever he could, and sometimes even where he could not, and not infrequently he had to hurry into a dark entryway and do what he could, however he could do it, behind the gate
11. That afternoon he left her at her school under a steady downpour just as the Angelus was ringing, after the two of them had watched the puppet show in the park, had lunch at the fried-fish stands on the jetties, seen the caged animals in the circus that had just come to town, bought all kinds of candies at the outdoor stalls to take back to school, and driven around the city several times with the top down, so that she could become accustomed to the idea that he was her guardian and no longer her lover
1. that forms the carcass of a jetty,
2. the wooden floor of the jetty
3. There came a roar of panic and dread as everyone rushed toward to the bow where it became obvious the hawsers were still firmly attached to the bollards on the jetty
4. We tidied up and were walking between the boats along the jetty with our catch when a tourist whipped out his digital and took a flash photo of the local fishing folk coming home after a long day hunting the fish
5. But Seaboy held him firmly until they had reached a jetty jutting out to reach a large island
6. Seaboy pushed him gently toward the jetty
7. To see a jetty in your dream implies that you are trying to create a sense of calm around yourself
8. The boat slid alongside a wooden jetty, built in the crystal clear waters
9. Longleaf couldn’t finish that thought, for, as he turned, he saw that the Calamity had already dropped her ropes and caught a gust of wind towards the jetty and, beyond, the open sea
10. He then walked onto the beach in the hope of seeing a jetty where the Caroline might be tied, but the land came to a point and there were rock outcroppings obstructing sight
11. He drove the entire length of town several times, peering into the entrance of every waterfront property, but there was no sign of any fishing boats at all, a phenomenon he found strikingly odd: after all, the pueblo’s name in English was Old Port and what was a port without boats other than dug-out canoes or a public jetty? He returned the car to the general store, and decided to endure the heat trudging the length of the beachfront road in a more careful search for a dock or someone who knew the whereabouts of the Caroline
12. As LP pulled up against a small jetty he asked "What’s the name of this island and who lives here?"
13. On the jetty nearest her, fishing nets lay unfolded; young fishermen
14. Little rowboats bobbed gently under a full moon alongside the jetty, the night was magic, the small combo played the samba, the rumba, the slow English waltz, the tango
15. When I stepped aboard as a freshly hired hand for the princely pay of one hundred marks (twenty five dollars) per month, she was lashed to bollards on the jetty, running her engine
16. They said there was shooting but I never saw a body on the long roadway which ran parallel to the hundreds of pipes and valves on the jetty
17. Following this she came on to a little jetty
18. There was another alternative which had also been too risky and that was the little staff ferry, she could have stowed away on it but the chances of being seen were very high and there were always security guards at its jetty
19. This took up three underground floors and had a concealed tunnel which terminated in a boathouse and jetty on the river bank
20. into the waves, was a single solid strip of land like a jetty
21. cast the spel from out there—at the edge of the jetty
22. We reached the base of the jetty
23. "The jetty, we can run down the jetty and use Babsy to fly us to Jezzabell," Slinks suggested
24. Slinks on the other hand was sitting on the edge of jetty, his head held down with a sad face and
25. "Quack," Babsy answered him swimming around the jetty
26. Daniel grabbed the last and lonely pebble that lay on the end of the jetty
27. the ridge and hopped over to the jetty where Slinks and Daniels were standing still
28. Drove through Grahamstown, by-passed Port Elizabeth, Clarkson and then a few kilometres before Woodlands turned left down a little country road to a small holiday cottage, surrounded by lush tropical foliage, on the beach, which was owned and used by Hu Lyang, when he was not staying at his Cape Town mansion – there were no other cottages in the area – the only other structure being a wooden boathouse which had its own jetty attached…
29. two identically-painted small motorboats were moored to the jetty, bobbing up and down in the gentle swell, the setting sun creating a picture-book scene, tranquilly reflected in the calm sea
30. He herded them onto the jetty and into one of the speedboats, cast off the mooring rope and with a roar from the outboard motor sped off out to sea
31. Rory stared after the rapidly diminishing speedboat, then dashed down to the jetty and jumped onto the remaining speedboat untying the mooring rope as he did so
32. After about a half-an-hour, they turned off the main road on to a small road leading down to an abandoned beach, the vehicles parking on a crumbling cement stretch, that had once been a jetty
33. The group took their leave of the Reeds and Briar Cottage and walked along the road towards the government jetty and the waiting seaplane
34. Nothing! A small fishing boat tied to a jetty
35. Steve pulls in behind him and jumps out; Curly Pete has parked the Mercedes as close as he can to the little wooden jetty that is Steve's berth and Steve squeezes past and approaches his boat
36. “No, you can help me throw him off the jetty
37. After roping it tightly against the jetty, he had it bailed to around the halfway mark before he saw water leaking in between the planks, but enough weight had been reduced to allow him to manoeuvre it to the workshop slipway
38. There was a small jetty to the left of the cliff, and Siri manoeuvred his boat toward it with the intention of landing, stretching his legs and, possibly, catching some fresh game
39. However, when he was within fifty yards of landing, he thought he saw movement behind the jetty wall
40. Then again, higher up the pathway leading down to the jetty
41. As soon as it became obvious to the watchers, who were waiting in ambush behind the jetty wall, that the boat was not coming closer, they came out of hiding
42. He waved to his cousin Phillip who stood proudly on his new ferryboat tied to the jetty
43. It was with a sense of indefinable relief that Moose and Razzle, stood by the handrail of the launch that had taken them to the island, watched as the rope was cast, heard the engine start, and felt the craft slowly depart from the jetty onto a choppy sea to begin the twenty mile voyage back to Dundercliff
44. Fixed cranes alongside railway tracks, with grain silos across from them, dotted the shoreline, but the ships at the jetty were like the smaller Great Lakes carriers
45. And during the part of the year when the full moon set behind the Harbour Bridge, Robbie often sat on the end of his jetty and marvelled at how the surface of the water shimmered like mercury
46. On the harbour side of the sunroom, Robbie built the new jetty, which projected about six metres out towards the water
47. At the end of the jetty he built a wooden, sloping slipway, designed to fit his Hobie Cat
48. He kept the catamaran at the top of the slipway, on the flat part of the jetty
49. At the beginning, when he first acquired the cat, he sailed up to the jetty, got off and dragged the boat up the sloping ramp
50. At full speed, the cat slid all the way up the ramp and neatly parked itself on its spot on the flat part of the jetty