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Sydney's several wharves and quays, given such vibrant new life, draw huge crowds.
The Dublin excavations are amongst the most informative in Europe for the development of successive waterfront quays and revetments.
If he lived by a port, then his duties would require him to deal with the maintenance of ships and quays.
The ships will berth on the city's quays, allowing visitors a chance to get up close to the world-class vessels.
I remember entering a shipyard, along the quays of the Seine, outside of Paris.
For the first century the Royal Navy used the quays around Rosia Bay as their victualling yard.
London was a port and a sequence of waterfronts, quays, and warehouses developed along the north bank of the Thames.
As he examined the excellent facilities and looked out over the rough waters along the quays yesterday, he vowed to remain champion.
The granary is an old 19th century grainstore, six storeys high, fronting onto the river Suir whose quays were once crowded with sailing ships.
There are some high quality office spaces available at present, particularly along the quays and docklands area.
The Transport Minister could clear the quays by invoking parking slot limitations on Dublin Bus.
The men created a world of their own on the docks, levees, plantation landings, city quays, and steamboat decks of the Mississippi River economy.
Leisure time spent in masculine environments such as black boardinghouses, city quays, grog shops, and city jails all facilitated friendships.
Before the docks were built lightermen ferried goods from ships in midstream to the river quays.
The port tunnel will steer lorries away from Dublin's quays, drawing people back to the river.
Harbour facilities, such as timber quays, jetties and revetments were recorded at many of the ports.
In Istanbul, too, there was the problem of privately owned areas that had to be expropriated to make way for the new docks and quays.
For some years now, Dublin's quays and waterfronts have been in the process of vigorous urban redevelopment.
Individual quays and jetties are often operated by independent terminal operators who specialise in servicing a wide range of vessel types.
Money is now more likely to go into quality office developments in the Dublin docklands and around the city quays over the next two to three years.
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The railway station is above the town, and is connected with the fine quays by a funicular railway.
After an interminable tour of the quays he finally tumbled into a beer hall.
This I learned from a waterman at the quays, who had helped to load their goods.
After breakfast he and Climene sallied forth to take the air upon the quays.
Of course if they ran a tramline along the North Circular from the cattlemarket to the quays value would go up like a shot.
The streets and quays swarm with the most vociferous, dirty, multitudinous life.
How he avoided falling into precipices, off the quays, or down staircases is a great mystery.
They lie open to their stream, with quays like broad clearings, with streets like avenues cut through thick timber for the convenience of trade.
In due time this happy party landed at the quays of Rotterdam, whence they were transported by another steamer to the city of Cologne.
I had bathed and breakfasted, and was strolling on the bright quays.
Those be seafarers coming up from their ships which lie at the quays at the city's edge.
However, I stumbled on it after that ramble along the quays!
Fish-scales glistened on the cobbled quays of the little port.
The street pavements, the flaggings of the quays and the boulevards, when first laid down, were a boon to him.
These quays, rising and falling with the tide, thus facilitate the loading and unloading of vessels.
A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint.
Construction of new quays with caissons and diaphragm walls.
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