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1. The landscape was becoming more built up as is drew nearer to the City … more farmsteads along the river, many with wharves selling produce, more large barn-like constructions doubtless used for craft activities, and, as they drew nearer to the city, glass houses covering vast areas of land, growing produce to be shipped to markets of London
2. Approaching one of the wharves on the outskirts
3. Fourteen ships of similar stance were tied alongside the breakwater and wharves in Aramell harbour
4. A half hour later, Longleaf and the three deputies were on their way again, cutting through the thick crowds in Water-Down’s docks and wharves
5. Many in the harbor, however, were amused to see a Man and three Halflings running across the wharves frantically, weaving in and out of the throngs
6. They were still frantically loading her and the wharves were awash with bustling bodies
7. I could see the port, the wharves and the buildings that lined both sides of the road
8. Servio's house, a dingy, ill-famed den, was located close to the wharves, facing the waterfront
9. Who am I to know the minds of the priests of Set? I can only speak what I have seen and what I have heard men whisper along the wharves
10. Stan thought to himself as he stared across the wide desk at this sharp young man that he just might have found himself a good trainee for the troubles brewing on the wharves in Vancouver
11. He walked along the ferry wharves, eventually finding the one to Watson’s Bay
12. In the olden days before the modern wharves were built, a ship had to wait for hours for the full tide before it could get to the port
13. Beyond the walls of darkened wharves,
14. Huge gropers (giant wrasse) lived beneath the wharves
15. But what person ever dared tell that this was evil? To a drunken English sailor in the grog shops… erected on the wharves, for the express purpose of separating a sailor’s wealth as quickly and efficiently as possible? And replacing it with an addiction for alcohol
16. One behind another, round or pointed, piercing the sky or massing themselves, like sailing ships, like granite cliffs, spires and offices, wharves and factories crowd the bank; eternally the pilgrims trudge; barges rest in mid stream heavy laden; as some believe, the city loves her prostitutes
17. The heave'e'yo of stevedores unlading ships by the wharves, the
18. Not the interminable rows of your houses, nor the ships at the wharves, Nor the processions in the streets, nor the bright windows with
19. The constructor of wharves, bridges, piers, bulk-heads, floats,
20. on wharves and levees,
21. wharves, thicken with colors,
22. City of wharves and stores--city of tall facades of marble and iron!
23. Give me the shores and wharves heavy-fringed with black ships!
24. Over the dense-pack'd cities all and the teeming wharves and ways,
25. The streets themselves and the facades of houses, and goods in the windows, Vehicles, teams, the heavy-plank'd wharves, the huge crossing at
26. I could distinguish with reasonable clarity the overall effect of its buildings, the ships made fast along its wharves, and those bigger vessels whose draft of water required them to drop anchor at the port's offshore mooring
27. The bank on that side was rocky, unsuitable for loading barges and rafts, so all the wharves were on the more accessible south side, in the suburb of Newtown
28. But the new wharves, protected from flooding by stone walls, squeezed the same quantity of water into a smaller funnel, through which it hurried as if eager to get past the bridge
29. The south bank of the river was lined with wharves and warehouses, and rafts and barges were being unloaded at several of them
30. Renting parts of it for wharves and warehouses was the least of his ambitions
31. Little had changed: there were a few wharves and storehouses at the west end and just one house, the one he had lent to Jimmie, at the east end, beside the road that led from one span of the bridge to the other
32. There were a lot of those merchant vessels crowding the harbor and its wharves, far more even than before the Charisian privateer onslaught with which the war had begun
33. When Prue perceiv’d that I was in earnest about finding a new Nurse (for Day and Night I spent interrogating Wenches with suckling Babes—or Wenches who’d recently buried ’em), she askt my Leave to have Susannah carry a Letter to the Wharves, where a Shipmate of her dead Husband’s, who had promis’d to look after her, was preparing for a Voyage to the Colonies
34. After what seem’d an Eternity to my heavy Mother’s Heart, we reach’d the Privy Stairs near Whitehall and hir’d a Pair of Oars to take us as far as the Wharves
35. Reaching the Wharves, at last, Susannah and I were astounded by the Flurry of Activity our Eyes beheld
36. At Fifteen she join’d a Band of Thieves down by the Charlestown Wharves, and when she was apprehended, her Papa bought her Liberty from Gaol
37. The front room was plainly furnished as a sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon the back of one of the wharves
38. He skulks about the wharves of Joppa, and seeks a ship that's bound for Tarshish
39. Huge hills and mountains of casks on casks were piled upon her wharves, and side by side the world-wandering whale ships lay silent and safely moored at last; while from others came a sound of carpenters and coopers, with blended noises of fires and forges to melt the pitch, all betokening that new cruises were on the start; that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye
40. But poorly could I withstand them, much as in other moods I was almost ready to smile at the solemn whimsicalities of that outlandish prophet of the wharves
41. While other hulls are loaded down with alien stuff, to be transferred to foreign wharves; the world-wandering whale-ship carries no cargo but herself and crew, their weapons and their wants
42. But he did not think it surprising, nor culpable, that those whose property consisted in ships, should be averse to seeing them rotting at the wharves, and even disposed to incur risks to find employment for them abroad
43. The tides rose from nine to twelve feet higher than ordinary, and in many of the principal cities and towns along the coast of New England, churches, houses, bridges, wharves, and in some instances valuable citizens, were buried in one common ruin
44. thought we had commenced this war for the protection of our commerce and the encouragement of our manufactories, and not for the purpose of extending the commerce and encouraging the manufactories of Great Britain; as by this war, with the partial importation act, (contemplated for the purpose of revenue,) we at once destroy our own commerce, by placing in the hands of the English the greatest part we have at sea, leaving the remainder useless, to rot at our wharves
45. We virtually held out to our great commercial cities—to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Charleston—the same language as Bonaparte had held to his own cities: "I know that you are suffering, and unhappy; that the grass is growing in your streets; that the ships at your wharves are rotting, until they are fit only for fuel; that your trade is dwindling only to nothing; but what is all that to my continental system? What are a few seaport towns—enterprising, wealthy, and prosperous, as indeed they are—what are they, compared to my continental system?" And, sir, what was our "restrictive" system? Similar in point of effect—certainly cotemporaneous in point of time—to Bonaparte's "continental system
46. ’s Custom House for many years, and have given every satisfaction, especially so far as durability is concerned, as it is almost a wonder that they are not broken and smashed long ago, considering the rough usage they are getting on board of boats, lighters, sailing ships, steamers, on wharves and in warehouses, where they have to be transported daily, having, for instance, weighed about five millions of piculs Rice last year, with only about a dozen scales, and without one accident