I asked the wharfinger if he knew her, but he had never seen her before. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
A slow, sonorous voice was proclaiming aloud that victory had been adjudged to Stephan Kiesslinger, born in the burg of Antwerp, son of a wharfinger in that town. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
And all timber exported, to be paid for to Orphans 3L. per 1000 feet solid; returns of all embarked to be made to the wharfinger, under the penalty of 5L. for each neglect. From Wordnik.com. [The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811)] Reference
Good Master Lovel the wharfinger neither knew his daughter nor his father's name in this long-drawn compound of liquids; he was troubled, very doubtful, anxious for Gregory Drax; but all Lombardy and the Emilian March came to know it in time. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
The boats to be kept tight; carry four oars, one mast and sail; boatmen to treat passengers civilly; to give notice half an hour before they depart, by bell ringing; not to stop more than ten minutes by the way, nor to go alongside a vessel, without acquainting the wharfinger; and the proprietors to keep entry-books, under the penalty of forfeiting the bond and recognizances entered into at the time their license was granted. From Wordnik.com. [The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811)] Reference
Mr. Winkle is a wharfinger, Sir, at the canal, sir. From Wordnik.com. [The Pickwick Papers] Reference
Mr. Blackwood was a wharfinger at Brooklyn and had married Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Married] Reference
Son of Hugh Moore, wharfinger, on Fish Street, informs his father's. From Wordnik.com. [Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)] Reference
In 1806, he was a wood-wharfinger, on North Street, residing in Prince Street. From Wordnik.com. [Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)] Reference
"This is potentially a good way of controlling them," says Port of San Francisco wharfinger. From Wordnik.com. [SF Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference
By ten o'clock a nondescript youth arrived on foot, carrying a suit-case, which was turned over to me a few minutes later by the wharfinger. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference
By ten o'clock a nondescript youth arrived on foot, carrying a suit - case, which was turned over to me a few minutes later by the wharfinger. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 1] Reference
The wharfinger saluted them, William Ammidon joined his wife, and beyond she could see James Saltonstone conversing with the Surveyor of the Port. From Wordnik.com. [Java Head] Reference
A slow, sonorous voice was proclaiming aloud that victory had been adjudged to Stephen Kiesslinger, born in the burg of Antwerp, son of a wharfinger in that town. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners)] Reference
A slow, sonorous voice was proclaiming aloud that victory had been adjudged to Stephen Kiesslinger, born in the burgh of Antwerp, son of a wharfinger in that town. From Wordnik.com. [A Dog of Flanders] Reference
A slow, sonorous voice was proclaiming aloud that victory had been adjudged to Stephan Kiesslinger, born in the burgh of Antwerp, son of a wharfinger in that town. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Childhood] Reference
They had come there six years previously, on the death of Mr Shuckleford, a respectable wharfinger, who had saved up money enough to leave his wife a small annuity. From Wordnik.com. [Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life] Reference
I got him a berth as wharfinger to a steamship company at twelve pounds, and he was made as happy as a sandboy, I can tell you: Lizzie knows that much, for I told her. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Gerrard] Reference
Government watchmen guard the wharf where our goods are stowed and others in the neighborhood, night and day -- and the wharfinger has orders not to ship or deliver, by land or water, any goods marked W. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government] Reference
The truck drivers left the port shortly after 9 a.m. for Sacramento, where the emissions requirement was being discussed at a meeting of the California Air Resources Board, Port of Oakland wharfinger Ralph Reynoso said. From Wordnik.com. [KTVU.com - Local News] Reference
When he came back from America -- where he went from a lad's love of adventure -- he made a good marriage from a monetary point of view; married a wharf on the Thames, in fact, somewhere Limehouse way, and settled down as a wharfinger. From Wordnik.com. [The Wharf by the Docks A Novel] Reference
My father, who was supposed to be a wharfinger, was too fond of the drink ever to be able to hold a job, the consekence bein 'that my poor mother had to keep things goin' by takin 'in washin'; and, since there was seven of us young 'uns, it took her all her time to find us in grub and clo'es. From Wordnik.com. [Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship] Reference
Vollar, "Jeremy told her," while I see the wharfinger. ". From Wordnik.com. [Java Head] Reference
You would be benefiting the whole community and have a splendid object in life, a far more honourable one, for instance, than that of being a wharfinger. ". From Wordnik.com. [Married] Reference
7, 8. wharf, and shall have authority to appoint a wharfinger of the wharf who shall have power to enforce the aforesaid rules and regulations. From Wordnik.com. [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference
27. wharfinger. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
0, occupied by Mr. Crane,, wood wharfinger, at Oli. From Wordnik.com. [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference
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