wharfingers

The buildings were ambiguous: warehouses? wharfingers offices?

Killer Dolphin Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1966

They are the largest warehouse keepers in the world and are able to store over 1,000,000 tons of goods, while accommodation for a further 1,000,000 tons is provided by the public wharfingers in the port.

The Port of London Pictured 1930

"Could we advertise, then, asking for information from wharfingers?"

The Sign of the Four Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

"Could we advertise, then, asking for information from wharfingers?"

The Sign Of The Four Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930. The sign of the four 1889

The scene was brisk; the cranes creaked and swung incessantly with a rattle of chains; stevedores and wharfingers toiled and perspired; boatswains and dock-masters shouted orders, drays rumbled, the water lapped at the piles; a group of sailors, painting the flanks of one of the great ships, raised an occasional chanty; the trade wind sang aeolian in the cordages, filling the air with the nimble taint of salt.

The Octopus : A story of California Frank Norris 1886

Here, closing my eyes on the sloops, lighters, and schooners lying at no great distance, and barring my ears against the cries of busy carmen and wharfingers, and the clanging of steam-engines, I calmly set about surveying in my mind's eye the group which ready imagination conjured up in colours, if not as true, at least as glowing, as the by-gone reality.

Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. Tyrone Power 1818

General line of bankers, factors, wharfingers, attorneys and policybrokers.

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General line of bankers, factors, wharfingers, attorneys and policybrokers.

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We coaled at Teneriffe, putting into the harbour of Santa Cruz for this purpose; and Mick and I were much struck by the fact of the black ladies who carried the baskets of coal on their heads along the jetty from the shore to the ship, doing the job, too, in first-rate style and as good as any gang of wharfingers at home, all of them wearing the most expansive crinolines, which, with their thin dresses and black stockings, of nature's own provision, had a very comical effect!

Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

She had passed Tate and Lyle’s factory, where the wharfingers with their barrows, like the figures on an old clock, run in and out of the buildings up sloping corridors.

The Port of London Murders Bell, Josephine, 1897-1987 1938