quaysides

From the 16th to the 19th centuries, ships lined the quaysides ready to be loaded with goods from across Europe to be sold in Africa in return for slaves.

Legacy of Slavery Lingers in Britain 2010

The couple must have succumbed to one of those scribble-you-quick cartoonists who hang around on quaysides and embankments, trying to earn the fare back to their home village after their career fails.

See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

American artist Spencer Tunick cordoned off a section of the quaysides to create his latest piece of nude art.

The Great Naked Artscape | Impact Lab 2005

De Gier stopped and admired the three tall mansions ahead, reaching up into the sky from the narrow quaysides and the canal in between.

Hard Rain Van de Wetering, Janwillem, 1931- 1986

The things that acutely embarrassed naval officers were collisions between warships and quaysides, ladies visiting the crew's mess deck with the crew present and at ease, and dishonourable conduct among gentlemen.

Whip Hand Francis, Dick 1979

The things that acutely embarrassed naval officers were collisions between warships and quaysides, ladies visiting the crew's mess deck with the crew present and at ease, and dishonourable conduct among gentlemen.

Whip Hand Francis, Dick 1979

Photographs hastily developed and processed showed troops in large numbers on the quaysides.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

When they berthed at Dunkirk which, judging from the debris on the quaysides, had been receiving the RAF's attentions during their absence, the Anne Marie's captain produced a bottle of cognac from a cupboard in the little cabin below decks.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

Quite certainly it never occurred to them that it might be understood, however imperfectly, by a teen-age boy standing about the quaysides gawping at - their power-boats.

Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957

Sometimes their wrangling almost equals that of the gulls that clamour in crowds about the small harbour, and that are always on the look-out for refuse thrown from the boats or from the quaysides.

The Cornwall Coast