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Sentence Examples He said the improvised bomb was planted near one of the gates of the wharf. This week the container ship Southern Express arrived in port at the same time as a number of longline fishing vessels were tied up at the wharf. The place is bedecked with excellent furniture, huge gardens, a barn, a wharf and other buildings. Today, however, we're settling for a short stint off the edge of an Auckland wharf. Of course, we do not complain about a more systematic approach to wharf and ship security. At the present time shipowners and wharf people pretty much know who is coming in and out. In 1917, he was the shipping agent responsible for the first meat-carrying steamer to load at the wharf. The forest of streamers from the wharf to the ship's rail slowly broke as the vessel gained momentum. Jarrod and Nicola were just some of the hundreds of RAN men and women who shared some tearful minutes on the wharf before the warship cast off. Twenty non-standard containers, all having their back doors sealed, were found either on board or loaded on the 20 trucks waiting at the wharf. One of the most striking scenes portrays various fishing vessels buoyed to the wharf in the harbor with the lighthouse in the background. It is essentially a 747 jet engine that is bolted down on a stand and requires its own storage bunker of fuel at Napier wharf to supply it. In a small fishing village, a Newfoundlander was walking up the wharf carrying two live lobsters. Though beautifully picturesque to the untrained eye, it's also a new breed of high-tech wharf. You can still see the piles of the original wharf where the goods were unloaded. Farther along the wharf we find a small fleet of fishing boats bobbing in a slick of diesel, their grizzled crews eyeing us suspiciously. He also constructed a gristmill, wharf, and boatyard, and shipped the products of his furnace as far as New Orleans. Late on the twilit Alaskan summer night, she confronted him on the Juneau Company wharf. The very long jetty was used as a wharf for the area in the days of coastal shipping. Evidence of the place importance remains, with loading bays, a gauging dock, wharf buildings and the wharfinger's house still in existence. Show More Sentences You have a Gatling gun on the wharf to-day, and there is one on the turret of the Post Office, they tell us. The base is made from the stone remains of a defunct wolfram mine and its wharf. Like the workboats at the fishermen's wharf, the bay boats needed the same care. I met him at the official opening of a new dockland wharf where the drinks flowed freely. The following year, the Lascar crew of the Australia were locked in a shed on a Melbourne wharf under guard until they too were shipped out. The porter loaded their bags onto cart and began to lead them down the wharf. On Thursday the strike continued as other dock workers supported the striking longshoremen and refused to load ships at the terminal's wharf. Stage I includes 490 metres of wharf and facilities for bulk cargo handling, stock carriers and general cargo vessels. A ship inside the backlot is a near full-sized model of the Manuia berthed at nearby Miramar wharf. This week the container ship arrived in port at the same time as a number of longline fishing vessels were tied up at the wharf. Close to an international wharf, the hotel changed some guestrooms for young travellers, known as the youth hostel. As soon as the ship was close to the wharf, he jumped from the boat to the pier. Ropes were cast off and stevedores moved in with bargepoles to keep the hull clear of the wharf. As the last lines were cast off the ship edged away from the wharf. As the Ladies in Waiting gently assisted the queen on to the wharf there was a whisper of sound like the folds of her dress, like the rustle of dry leaves in a soft wind. The tower now stands out, loud and proud, flanked by two green open parks and the colourful wharf, with a riverside walk guiding amblers up to its refurbished doors. As we waited in the queue on the wharf, my first impression was of the tremendous amount of rope involved in supporting the rigging and in controlling the set of the sails. It angled steeply downward, for the schooner's deck was much lower than the edge of the wharf, but heavy cross battens promised plenty of traction for those who had to use it. My ageing father sat in a lawn chair on the Nelson city wharf, baitcasting, while I used his father's bamboo fly rod, a family heirloom made of Tonkin cane. Then bed down in the seaside town of Mystic, Connecticut, with views of the wharf from your private room at the steamboat Inn. Show More Sentences Long bright days encouraged work on the crumbling wharf, restoration of deteriorating residences, and a bathhouse which Tashakawa and Shiro designed and began to construct. It's an attraction in itself to rise early in the morning to watch the enormous luxury liners taxiing into a berth at the wharf near the bauxite terminal. Afterward, stumble out into North Beach and walk it off on a stroll down to the wharf. He persisted in these tactics for several years despite being resisted actively by the other harvesters and ostracized on the wharf and in the community. He struts with imperial stride to the wharf and down center stage. He gave instructions accordingly, but directed that all safety precautions should be taken to prevent inflammable material falling off the wharf into the oil. Sea-Cat Tails are what the architects call 'sea stethescopes', tubes which pierce the deck of the wharf to scoop in the sounds of the water through their funnel-shaped ends. After a few minutes of rowing she docked the boat at a small wharf. In around 1830 the Furzebrook Railway was built, connecting the pits to a wharf at Ridge. Originally Dartmouth's only wharf was Bayard's Cove, a relatively small area protected by a fort at the southern end of the town. Wigan Pier, best known from George Orwell's book The Road to Wigan Pier, was the name of a wharf on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan. Colt's complex also included the largest armory in the world, as well as wharf and ferry facilities on the Connecticut River. A jetty was built in 1887, with railway lines connecting it with the wharf and the main line. In 1906 it bought the Sun Mill, which it extended in 1913 to create the UK's largest flour mill, with its own wharf, elevators and silos. A wharf was built at Daneway Bridge, equipped with a warehouse and coalyard. The wharf owner asked the ship owner about the danger and was told he could continue his work because the slick would not burn. Water-hugging hotel, located on the end of the wharf and overhanging the harbour, has 280-degree views. Others were off at the shops getting ice blocks or squizzing at the boats down at the wharf. At that time many of them seagulled on the Mt Maunganui wharf to make a crust in order to carry on with their ideal of kiwifruit as a major exporting industry. The wharf owner allowed work to continue on the wharf, which sent sparks onto a rag in the water which ignited and created a fire which burnt down the wharf. Show More Sentences We decide to stop in Chemainus for lunch, so we tie up at the public wharf, set security, grab the manpacks, and stroll into the pretty little town... enjoying the stretch. On the day of the funeral truckies on their way to the container wharf slow down as they pass the Railway Hotel and sound their earth-shattering horns. A donkey engine was used on the wharf at Millertown to hoist the ore aboard railway flatcars for shipment to the port of Botwood, where it was loaded on a deep-sea ship. Military port activity ceased in the early 1960s, when most of the military infrastructure was abandoned, then dismantled, apart from the pier and lighterage wharf. Just then, a sailor, who had crossed the channel, and was making rapid headway, by rowing cross-handed, emerged from behind a merchant vessel which was moored at the wharf. Among groundbreaking projects Balcon supplied was the first phase of a Port of Baltimore wharf bulkhead, requiring 230,000 square feet of 120-mm thick paving stones. Bill had been seagulling on the wharf since he got back from the war. Examples from Classical Literature I preached on the wharf to a large throng in the afternoon, and at night heard a celebrated congregationalist. He is a wharf rat at Quebec, and is being used by these outlaws to further their treacherous ends. At length, however, came in the same sneering fellow I had marked on the wharf, calling loudly for swats. As a lighterman he did better, until the building of a wharf ruined his business. Was't less feeling, or more strength of body, enabled me to bide at the Tower wharf with dancey? At Ferriby the pump conveyed from the wharf to the tun, here it was from the tun to the wharf. There must have been time, at all events, for her to get away from the wharf, and to descend the Mersey. The pale, helpless soldiers had been debark'd, and lay around on the wharf and neighborhood anywhere. This is the end of our river journey, as is evidenced by the riverhead wharf, built out from the bank. Thinking that it might be possible to secure a canoe from here to Pueblo Viejo, we dickered with a boatman at the wharf. His eye fell on a small fishing schooner at the end of the wharf, the only boat of seagoing size that the place boasted. So I bought a muffin, ate it, and went down to the wharf to look for a job. The wharf superintendent hails us from the dockside before the warps are fast. The self-devoted Louisianian loses from sight the little knot of dear ones on the wharf. Here, on the wharf, they get a dollar for a day's work, and a dollar-and-a-half for night-work. As Spike uttered this order, his foot was on the plank-sheer of the bulwarks, in the act of passing to the wharf again. The day of the voyageur was gone, and lines of steamboats crowded its wharf. The settling of the wharf had thrown the door and its frame out of the perpendicular. When we got back to Charleston, our ship lay at her own wharf, and I saw nothing of my chap. Hardly had they scrambled on to the wharf when Trevannion's ganger came up. Show More Sentences We saw that wharf rat, Max, in the forest and I started away to follow him. Yes and we were compelled to exchange our perfectly good uniforms for some old rags that would disgrace a wharf rat! They crossed the street and went down the glacis of the cobblestoned wharf. Bat Harker was unobtrusively standing amongst the piled bales of groundwood that stacked the wharf from end to end. There was no wharf, and it was always necessary to get ashore through a surf. The short-wave operator came running to the wharf, waving a written message. Most of the principal stores were on bay street, their storehouses stretching out on the wharf. Pick up the Heart o' Dreams mail and bring it back to Huddleston, and meet us on the wharf at nightfall. He is usually defended by first-class criminal lawyers, and his wharf rat companions seem to be very desirable witnesses for him. It was close to noon before the river boat turned a bend and steamed up to the wharf at Kusiak. Thus we were able quickly to get back again to the wharf where the Haytien was berthed. We run alongside the wharf just as Booth Hank climbed over the stringpiece. We run alongside the wharf jest as Booth Hank climbed over the stringpiece. By the time Captain Briggs, followed by the faithful Ruddy, reached the stringpiece of the wharf, the schooner was already close. When the boat reached the alameda wharf she slipped away with the other passengers. We all went ashore in this canoe, then, and were soon alongside of a wharf. They were attended to the wharf by a concourse of people, who wished them a good voyage. Do you think, Captain Joe, he said to the dog, that you could go and get a wharf rat this morning? The wharf is naturally the first point of interest to new-comers. The boathouse at the end of the wharf offered a convenient refuge. Show More Sentences Then the whole party was to go down to the wharf and the sailboat. Out of another I get a lovely view of the bay and a little private wharf belonging to the estate. Robert uttered a shrill, piercing whistle which might have been heard back at the wharf. Several small punts and skiffs were lying about in the water and on the edge of the wharf. In a moment Sterne appeared, walking as noiselessly as a cat on the wharf. At the wharf we were informally introduced to a crowd of curious natives. It was a bright, tranquil evening when the boat stopped at the wharf at Louisville. Pontellier was up in good time to take the rockaway which was to convey him to the steamer at the wharf. Twenty-seven carts and trucks carried this money from the wharf to the provincial treasury. We parted true comradely, and I wandered down the wharf to the Razzle Dazzle. And there isn't an article shipped or unshipped at our wharf but I know the quality of it. They landed on a wharf, and went through an unswept, deeply-rutted lane up to the main street of Lyvern. It was over this miry marsh that they proposed to build a wharf. The door-sill of the home is the wharf where heavy life is unladen. It was nearly six o'clock, but only grey imperfect misty dawn, when we drew nigh the wharf. He ran in to the wharf at Vallejo, made the boat fast, and helped me out. He had thought of the vireo, which lay moored at the wharf in the inlet. Three cowards will hang on wapping wharf before the month is up. Two of them bore a small chest which they set down on the wharf. Down the wharf he walked, joyfully, as one who greets an old friend. Show More Sentences He was followed by the wharf watchman, who looked frightened. And when I find him, therell be one wharf rat less on the docks. There was a general warfare declared on the wharf rat in prison. And again, lying at the wharf disposing of my oysters, there were dusky twilights when big policemen and plain-clothes men stole on board. The lovers, who had laid their plans the night before, were already strolling toward the wharf. They landed at the little wharf and plodded through the heavy sand. Beside the wharf lay dozens of prahus whose occupants wore large domed hats giving an effect of a field of mushrooms on the water. Mr. Quimby bought him at the wharf out of a redemptioner ship. As he spoke he led the way to the end of the wharf where he knew another boat lay moored, and, lowering the woman into it, he jumped in after and pushed off. While they thus stood upon the wharf, the curiosity and inquisitiveness of the New England people would naturally lead them into the midst of the poor Acadians. How can a person start off from Grand Isle to Mexico at a moment's notice, as if he were going over to Klein's or to the wharf or down to the beach? It was a crazy old house with a wharf of its own, abutting on the water when the tide was in, and on the mud when the tide was out, and literally overrun with rats. Then I went down to the wharf and hid my things aboard the up-river boat that we had picked out, and then started back and had another streak of luck. When the boat, creaking, and groaning, and puffing, had loosed from the wharf, and was beginning slowly to strain herself along, the woman returned to her old seat. Have them down on the wharf to meet us or we are gone gooses. He would probably consider that to send back the launch or to keep it at a wharf would make pursuit easy if the police did happen to get on his track. Pedlers were backing their wagons to the edge of the wharf, and from the bargaining and chaffering that went on, I managed to learn the selling price of the oysters. Find more words! 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