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Wharf in sentence

25 examples of Wharf in a sentence

So we dug, dug, and we found the wharf.
AT: Well, I think we focus too often on licensing in order to get the rate of return, because what we are getting from license fees is about 10 percent of the landed value of the catch on the side of the wharf, not in the retail shops.
Then we cut to a two shot, on a wharf pier, at a juice stand.
Near one pit there was a wharf with moored vessels which were laden directly from the trains at the foot-bridges.
There the Katrin ferry transferred men, horses, and carriage to Brooklyn, that great New York annex located on the left bank of the East River, and in a few minutes we arrived at the wharf next to which the Abraham Lincoln was vomiting torrents of black smoke from its two funnels.
In fact, there beneath my eyes was a town in ruins, demolished, overwhelmed, laid low, its roofs caved in, its temples pulled down, its arches dislocated, its columns stretching over the earth; in these ruins you could still detect the solid proportions of a sort of Tuscan architecture; farther off, the remains of a gigantic aqueduct; here, the caked heights of an acropolis along with the fluid forms of a Parthenon; there, the remnants of a wharf, as if some bygone port had long ago harbored merchant vessels and triple-tiered war galleys on the shores of some lost ocean; still farther off, long rows of collapsing walls, deserted thoroughfares, a whole Pompeii buried under the waters, which Captain Nemo had resurrected before my eyes!
It was floating next to an embankment shaped like a wharf.
Huck was already upon his watch when the ferryboat's lights went glinting past the wharf.
'Bless my dear eyes!' said Mr. Roker, shaking his head slowly from side to side, and gazing abstractedly out of the grated windows before him, as if he were fondly recalling some peaceful scene of his early youth; 'it seems but yesterday that he whopped the coal-heaver down Fox-under-the-Hill by the wharf there.
Between the wharf and the bedroom window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water.
There is a fierce eddy between the wharf and the house.
The vessel was quite ready to sail, and the captain was waiting on the wharf.
At the end of Broad Street it ran right down to the water's edge, where there was a small wooden wharf.
Several small punts and skiffs were lying about in the water and on the edge of the wharf.
"He might have bought some at a wharf down the river."
She may have touched at any wharf on either side of the stream between here and Greenwich.
It was a little past seven before we reached the Westminster wharf, and found our launch awaiting us.
The launch was not at any landing-stage or wharf, nor had it returned.
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.
He was to bring his boat round on a certain night to an old wharf which was never guarded, and there he was to pick me up.
At the night named he had his boat at the wharf.
The same formalities having been gone through at the French consulate, and the palanquin having stopped at the hotel for the luggage, which had been sent back there, they returned to the wharf.
Opposite them, on the other side of the street, between a coal wharf and a petroleum warehouse, a large platform had been erected in the open air, towards which the current of the crowd seemed to be directed.
Thus she remained for a moment, stunned, watching the water flow past; when she gradually returned to her senses, she found herself alone on the wharf with the unknown.
Soon the immense timber-yards were thronged with spectators; not a part of the quay, not a wall of the wharf, not a factory roof showed an unoccupied place; the river itself was covered with craft of all descriptions, and the heights of Govan, on the left bank, swarmed with spectators.