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Example sentences for "jetty"

Lexicographically close words:
jetted; jetter; jetties; jetting; jettison; jetzt; jeu; jeune; jeuner; jeunes
  1. She wound around her fingers Her locks of jetty hair; And brought them into graceful curl About her forehead fair.

  2. He was rather above the medium height, of commanding figure, with jetty hair and mustaches and deep-set, piercing black eyes.

  3. Extends southwards from the jetty of the new port.

  4. Then I got a sort o' lonesome feeling standing on the end of the jetty all alone, and I went back to the Bear's Head and 'ad another pint.

  5. I stood on the jetty for a minute or two, trembling all over with cold and temper.

  6. Four men, who had been lying on their oars in a boat at the jetty stairs, sprang up.

  7. As the schooner arrived opposite the castle, a small postern leading out upon the jetty was opened, and an officer and six soldiers issued forth.

  8. A man stood on the jetty with a large basketful of bananas, which he offered for sale at sixpence per dozen, and handed them over the side of the ship to any one who would buy.

  9. There was a long jetty running out into the water for a great distance, but we did not go alongside.

  10. Just as I came to the end of the long jetty I saw standing there an aboriginal and three Gins.

  11. I walked along the jetty and up the street before I met any one; then I saw a man I remembered as one to whom I had spoken several times formerly.

  12. Then every one on the jetty laughed like fun, but I was totally ignorant where the joke came in, and asked, "Is it not a very good bottle?

  13. The hue of the orbs was the most brilliant of black, and far over them hung jetty lashes of great length.

  14. It was spotted all over, at irregular intervals, with arabesque figures, about a foot in diameter, and wrought upon the cloth in patterns of the most jetty black.

  15. We awoke lying alongside the jetty among the rocky hills of Panderma.

  16. Early that evening he had sent some one ahead with some bribes for the Turkish water police, whose duties were to examine any one leaving the jetty by Galata Bridge.

  17. Her hair of the loveliest auburn, her straight Grecian eyebrows and fair complexion, form a striking contrast to the gipsy-coloured skins and jetty tresses of her companions.

  18. Amongst the dancers, two young girls, whose jetty locks were braided with some degree of elegance, shone forth in a fandango, beating the ground and snapping their fingers with rapturous agility.

  19. We walked up and down agin, and every time we went near the edge of the jetty she 'eld on to my arm for fear of stumbling agin.

  20. Wot with shifting lighters from under the jetty and sweeping up, it was pretty near ha'-past seven afore I 'ad a minute I could call my own.

  21. We walked down to the jetty agin arter that, and sat side by side looking acrost the river.

  22. His hair, however, and beard were jetty black, without a single gray hair, and his complexion was of that deep Oriental yellow-brown not uncommon to his nation.

  23. I pulled away from the jetty of Umatilla at eight o'clock in the morning of November fifteenth.

  24. A solid jetty of stone could not have broken the rollers more effectually.

  25. Bain replied somewhat caustically that he thought it a pity he had not done so, as nothing would have given him greater joy than going to the end of the jetty and identifying his body.

  26. He said that he had found the work "too much for his head," that he had torn up what he had written, that he had nowhere to go, and had been to the end of the jetty with the intention of drowning himself.

  27. Before twelve o'clock, the troops were landed from the steamers near a village, where there was a sort of jetty convenient for the purpose; they then formed, and marched direct up towards the city.

  28. We landed from our boat, at a little stone jetty in front of a deserted temple, before which there was an open paved court, or square, crowded with people.

  29. But the Nemesis had little cause for fear; her light draught of water enabling her to anchor in a well-sheltered cove, near the stone jetty which has recently been constructed.

  30. As soon as the Modeste was cast off from the Nemesis, sail was made, and she was carried alongside a wharf or small jetty within the creek, close to the village of Woosung.

  31. How sedulously, with comb and brush, he sought to smooth into straight precision that luxuriant labyrinth of jetty curls, which had never cost him a thought before!

  32. Next minute we were almost as startled as they could be when three plump young jetty damsels dropped down right into the bushes alongside of us, off as many tall cocoas which they'd been climbing by a band round them, for the nuts.

  33. By great toil and exertion the doctor had succeeded in placing some of the timbers of the jetty together as launching-ways, and on the cradle he had laid the wreck of the old boat.

  34. When her letters were written, Edith dressed herself in a full Indian costume, which had been given her by Otaitsa; and a beautiful Indian maiden she looked, though the skin was somewhat too fair, and the hair wanted the jetty black.

  35. The skipper just asked where, and then 'im and the mate and a couple of 'ands tumbled into their boat and pulled under the jetty for all they was worth.

  36. They let go o' me then, and stamped up and down the jetty laughing fit to kill themselves.

  37. They were all on the jetty as I got there and tumbled into the skipper's arms, and all asking at once wot was the matter.

  38. There was no discoverable drapery; the dark head, with its crisp, curly, jetty hair, seemed just disentangling itself from out of curtains and clouds.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jetty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.