wharves

A salt-water creature very destructive to shipping and the wharves is the teredo, or ship-worm.

Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

There is a quaintness and unworldliness about its old streets and wharves, which is indescribable in print; there is a wonderfully impressive expanse of sea and sky on the Bay of Bidassoa, a couple of kilometres away, and all sorts and conditions of men may find an occupation here for any passing mood they may have.

The Automobilist Abroad

Moors you see along the wharves are the spon-ta-ne-ous born of the soil.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Various

Around others at the wharves was the cheery hum of contented labor.

War-time sketches : historical and otherwise, Adelaide Stuart Dimitry 1911

For some reason, now quite incomprehensible, the wharves were our most common rendezvous.

Confessions of Boyhood John Albee 1874

Lying by one of the wharves was a large boat laden with peat, which was being rapidly unloaded, the peat being sold as soon as landed, as fuel was very short in the city.

By England's Aid Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604 1867

On the wharves was the smell of tarred seams and cordage, -- sweltering in the sun; in the counting-rooms the clerks could barely keep the drops of moisture from their faces from falling down to blot their toilsome lines of figures on the faultless pages of the ledgers; on the Common, common men surreptitiously stretched themselves in shady corners on the grass, regardless of the police, until they should be found and ordered off; little babies in second-rate boarding-houses, where their fathers and mothers had to stay for cheapness the summer through wailed the helpless, pitiful cry of a slowly murdered infancy; and out on the blazing thoroughfares where business had to be busy, strong men were dropping down, and reporters were hovering about upon the skirts of little crowds, gathering their items; making

The Other Girls 1865

In the case of the Rhine shares in the German navigation companies and property such as wharves and warehouses held by Germany in Rotterdam at the outbreak of the war must be handed over.

World's War Events $v Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. 1902

If a merger went ahead, each company would retain individual ownership of core infrastructural assets such as wharves, and a new merged company would be formed to manage the operations and commercial activities of both ports.

NZ On Screen 2010

"wharves," thus providing a vantageous place for the citizens to congregate when they had a boat race over the lower course.

Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden