My last hope deserted me as I saw the little vessel lying beside the quay; for I continued to trust that in getting out from the dock some accident or mischance might occur to spoil our sport.
A ship whose mastheads protruded through the sky and could not be seen, was discharging grain, and the wind whirled the dry husks in spirals along the quay of a dock with no water in it.
There wasn't one overloaded ship in Penarth Dockat all.
Far off, Byculla way, the electric lamps at the dock gates shone on the end of lofty standards with a glow blinding and frigid like captive ghosts of some evil moons.
For every bag of coffee that passes over the dock the dock company charges one hundred reis (about two and a half cents).
These are weighed as they arrive on the dock by a licensed public weigher; and a sufficient quantity of the coffee remaining on the floor of the ship's hold is put into the bag to make it of the proper weight.
This process is known as "dispatching," while the dock company's charges are known as capitazias.
Accordingly, even before the unloading begins, the dock is chalked off into squares, each square having a number, or symbol, representing a particular consignment.
There is a separate "to arrive contract"; but this likewise requires delivery at a licensed warehouse, unless the buyer and the seller have a mutual understanding to deliver the coffee from dock or ex-ship.
The first wholesale coffee-roasting plant in the United States begins operation at 4 Great Dock Street, New York.
Paulo da Silva Prado; Theodor Wille; the Société Generale; and the New York Dock Co.
Storing at Santos At Santos most of the storing is done in the steel warehouses of the City Dock Company, a private corporation whose warehouses extend for three miles along the waterfront at one end of the town.
In time they raised the Capes of Virginia, and a few hours later steamed into the dock at Fortress Monroe.
The oil tender, Sarah Coville, was not here, and, on making some inquiries of the dock loungers, the boys learned that she had not been seen at Rivermouth since the night they had come in off the submarine chaser in the fog.
Torry told about seeing one hung up on the dock at Seacove weighing sixty-four and a quarter pounds.
The men being ready, the march to the dock was made, Seven Knott bringing up the rear to see that there were no loiterers.
This uniformity of level is of great service in dealing with cargo, but this type has the disadvantage of only permitting traffic in and out of the dock at high water.
They are granted by the proper officer at the dock to the importer in favour of any one that he may name.
The floor is graded to channels, leading to powerful pumps, usually of the centrifugal type, and capable of emptying a large dock in one hour.
The average life of a steeldock may be assumed to be 40 years, whereas a masonry dock may be said to last indefinitely, subject only to the fact that it may outlive its usefulness.
In making use of this type the dock is lowered by flooding the lower compartments.
The mobility of a floating dock may be considered an advantage, allowing it to be easily removed to another locality to meet changing conditions, but this adaptability should not be overvalued.
This disadvantage may be modified by the provision of a lock at the dock entrance.
And then suddenly he saw the little scarecrow man of last night advancing to the dock between two policemen, more ragged and miserable than ever by light of day, like some shaggy, wan, grey animal, surrounded by sleek hounds.
Through a wonder world of moonlit waterways and dark, mysterious channels, around peninsulas and between islands, across an open traverse and down a little bay, they took their course until Jim had them safely landed at their own dock again.
The Kenora docks were crowded with rowboats, sailboats, canoes and launches of all sorts and sizes, so that it took some steering skill on Jim's part to land them at the dock without bumping either themselves or any one else.
At the dock they found a launch filled with visitors bringing news--great news and glorious.
And again upon those left upon the dock the shadow settled heavier than before.
Isabel, who stood upon the dock clinging to her mother's dress, and who saw in the grave, faces about her signs of disaster.
Donald knew the main incidents of his dramatic career from the time he had been stolen by a Bengali bandit and sold into matrimony at the age of ten, to the day he had salaamed a tearful farewell from the dock at Bombay.
When we reached Japan, he couldn't wait for the steamer to dock but went ashore in the pilot boat, and made a bee line for Cook's.
It was a little dock with a thatched lodge in the rear of it and a few cords of wood stacked upon its end.
Indeed that was one of the jumping-off places; for a steep stairway led down the hill to the dock two hundred feet below.
Not a soul on the dock that day but fully realized this.
Stevens approached her dock we saw that an immense crowd had gathered to give us welcome.
A jolly crew, to be sure, and jollily we bade adieu to the fellows who had gathered in the dock to wish us God-speed.
The blue sea, stretching out into the hazy distance, sparkled around the little nipa-covered dock where commissary stores and sacks of rice were piled.
A "rooky," who had joined the company, stood on the dock disconsolately.
Near the new dock a gang of Moros were at work, perspiring in the hot rays of the tropic sun.
Stott's words to her on the dock had in part prepared her for the worst, he had told her what to expect at home, but the realization was so much more vivid.
He had learned also of the other misfortunes which had befallen Judge Rossmore and he understood now the reason for Shirley's grave face on the dock and her little fib about summering on Long Island.
If we do, that will get us to our dock about 11 o'clock Friday morning, I fancy.
It was with a few minutes in hand that Frobisher leapt out of his cab at the dock gates, and collected his few belongings.
As it is, I fear she is rather badly damaged, and it will probably mean a few months in dock for her before she is fit for service again--which is all the more deplorable, because we may need her at any moment.
And the young man darted out of the chart-house, across the gangway, and out of the dock premises like a sprinter, leaving Drake staring open-mouthed after him.
The first time I cannoned into him at the dock gates as I was coming aboard, and sent him spinning.
Pack them with anything you please, and follow us down to the dock with both bags when we leave here.
This time, instead of going down toward the lagoon and the dock where the amphibian lay moored, they turned off on a side road.
The big ship, which had been slowly drifting away from the dock and the irate Mr. Weed, began to gather headway.
As Fate would have it, the new launch got to the Boswell dock just as the craft containing Tom and his chums hove in sight.
Their wheezy boat puffed slowly along, and as it was steered in toward the dock they had improvised near their tent, the boys saw Boswell and his chum helping the girls out.
They reached the boathouse and dock in time to see the man in the motor-boat close and lock the door, with his craft inside.
On thedock I discovered a box containing blank post-cards given out by "The Missions to Seamen.
A few hours later we moved into the harbor and tied up at Devonport Dock where we lay all day, unloading cargo.
Ford and Hammett are at the dock all ready to search him when I give the word.
We're not off thedock yet," Denby said in a low voice.
They staid in the water a long time, and the girl with the Figure was always crawling out on the dock and then diving in to show off.
I only say that she was not modest, and that the way she stood on the Patten's dock and pozed for Mr. Beecher's benafit was unecessary and well, not respectable.
Oi'll be one to go an' pull her off the dock and jump on her.
Something she said about the dock having been leased to the Fertilizing Company caused Crane to leave his chair in a hurry, and ask his clerk in an angry voice if McGaw had yet been paid the money on his chattel mortgage.
Babcock was sitting on a keg of dock spikes inside this working shanty some days after he had discovered Tom's identity, watching his bookkeeper preparing the pay-roll, when a face was thrust through the square of the window.
A scow loaded with stone for the sea-wall that Babcock was building for the Lighthouse Department had lain three days at the government dock without a bucket having been swung across her decks.
Yes, and has for some years; but I must confess I never knew Grogan was a woman until I found her on the dock a few weeks ago, handling a cargo.
McGaw, in return, was to use his "pull" to get a permit from the village trustees for the free use of the village dock by Crane & Co.
The scenery in the neighborhood of Second andDock Streets is described by old historians as being very beautiful.
The first house erected in Philadelphia was a wooden one, on the east side of Front Street, a little north of the place now called “Little Dock Street,” and is said not to have been finished when William Penn first arrived.
The dockat Brookville was crowded by residents of the little town as the Beulah drove into comparatively smooth water in the coaling slip.
I'll pilot you there," was the prompt reply, and passengers and crew of the Olivia followed the speaker from the dock over to an old dilapidated building that had been in its palmy days the hotel of the place.
They came alongside a steam tug just through coaling at the dock at Brookville.
There is accommodation here for about a dozen large men-of-war, and on the north side stands the one dry dock for repairing large vessels of which Port Arthur can boast.
The new cruisers arrived safely at Yokohama on February 16th, and were at once sent into dock to refit and prepare for active service.
Twenty yards from the dock gates an expression of doubt crept into his eyes, as he caught sight of a military officer hurrying towards him from the direction of what looked like a miniature fortress.
Your father is at Dorby, and his private submersible is moored in an inner dock at Farlow, Son and Farlow's yards.
But at last he stepped out upon the Tamsui dock into a crowd of preachers, students, and converts who were weeping for joy about him and exclaiming over his improved looks.
The trying Formosan climate was proving too much for his young assistant, and one sad day he stood on the dock and saw Mr. Junor, pale and weak and broken in health, sail away back to Canada.
And so she would, and before she touched the dock Billy deftly caught a bundle of Boston papers and racing uptown sold them all before the passengers were off the boat, unless they moved quickly.
He could sight it about an hour before it would dock and as soon as he did the horn blew grandly and his voice rang out over the town in a rhyme, doubtless of his own composing.
The beginner who fishes in the salt sea does it almost invariably with a pole, whether from cliff or dock or from a boat.
The sailor instinct is strong in them, and they bring their barks alongside the dock or the stranger with a pleasant hail and without a jar.
