There were several wharves in the bay where fishing boats could unload their catch. From LearnThat.org.
Verb (used with object) : The schedule allowed little time to wharf the cargo. ,The new structure will wharf several vessels. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : The ship wharfed in the early morning. From Dictionary.com.
Around others at the wharves was the cheery hum of contented labor. From Wordnik.com. [War-time sketches : historical and otherwise,] Reference
Moors you see along the wharves are the spon-ta-ne-ous born of the soil. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862] Reference
For some reason, now quite incomprehensible, the wharves were our most common rendezvous. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of Boyhood] Reference
A salt-water creature very destructive to shipping and the wharves is the teredo, or ship-worm. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of California] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [By England's Aid Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604] Reference
"wharves," thus providing a vantageous place for the citizens to congregate when they had a boat race over the lower course. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Saronia by this time has almost reached the wharves. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Let me pass to the wharves, or I will see the Tribune. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
As the rickshaw wheels away from the noisy wharves of busy. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
A large number of vessels lay about at the wharves and at anchor. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
A familiar figure on the wharves of Wilmington was the gigantic one of. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
When we arrived at Baltimore (nine o'clock P.M.) the wharves were afloat. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference
I had neither the time nor the men to spare to construct permanent wharves. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
By 1930 the port of London employed some 100,000 people on approximately 1,700 wharves. From Wordnik.com. [In Praise Of London's 'Old Father'] Reference
Not a boat was frozen into the ice at what had once been the wharves at the abandoned city. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
Ocean freighters dragged anchors in the channel and were soon crashing against the wharves. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
Mary River, and vessels drawing 19 feet will be enabled to reach the wharves at Maryborough. From Wordnik.com. [Report on the Department of Ports and Harbours for the Year 1890-91] Reference
Street, because there were the deepest water and best wharves, but in this I made a mistake. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Pictures of it were made, with steamers lying at the wharves and a university in the suburbs. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
A few men at the wharves watched the flying figures, but no one imagined it more than a game. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Maid of Old Maine] Reference
The port is unusable because many of the wharves are rubble and most of the cranes have collapsed. From Wordnik.com. [Put the Pentagon in Charge] Reference
All the women and children and such men as had been left behind, were now hurrying toward the wharves. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Maid of Old Maine] Reference
Bristol was a great seaport in days gone by, but today only coasters and colliers make use of its wharves. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
Its docks and wharves extend on either side of the Thames for twenty-four miles from London Bridge down to. From Wordnik.com. [Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)] Reference
It is also used in all kinds of farm implements, mill machinery, for piles and wharves, railway ties, etc., etc. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Just after the war of 1812, our laboring men stood, as they stand to-day, idling about the wharves and public places. From Wordnik.com. [Parks for the People Proceedings of a Public Meeting held at Faneuil Hall, June 7, 1876] Reference
The fifth day after my arrival, I put on the clothes of a common laborer, and went upon the wharves in search of work. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
The tree-covered wharves and the typical Dutch crowds, the dog-drawn little carts and the "morning waker," are all there. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
It is a city of about 150,000 and is an important industrial center, having extensive shipyards, factories, wharves, etc. From Wordnik.com. [In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France] Reference
These were shops which kept supplies of ready-made clothing for sailors and other transient people who harbored along the wharves. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
We leave the banks of the Brandywine and the wharves of Christine, and try to lose ourselves in the thickly-built heart of the city. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
He went first to one of the principal shops, or the post office, and told his story, and afterwards went to the schooners at the wharves. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
The great wharves and warehouses were alternately compared to the pyramids of Egypt, the aqueducts of Rome and the engravings of Piranesi. From Wordnik.com. [In Praise Of London's 'Old Father'] Reference
Negroes themselves, moving among them in their homes, at the places where they worked, or on the wharves where they stopped when traveling. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
He wandered along by the wharves, making inquiries about any vessels that were to sail immediately, little caring what their destination might be. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
A scheme was proposed to burn the fleet, but this got noised abroad too early, and the ships were moved from the wharves to the centre of the city port. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Large vessels can now lie up against wharves, to discharge or to load their cargo, and passengers can embark and disembark in comfort, and the increase in trade has been great. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Madras] Reference
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