There was an ample pier of heavy masonry; upon this, under shelter, were some thousands of barrels containing that product which has carried the fame of Bermuda to many lands, the potato.
We went ashore and found a novelty of a pleasant nature: there were no hackmen, hacks, or omnibuses on the pier or about it anywhere, and nobody offered his services to us, or molested us in any way.
It was Sunday afternoon, and on the pier were gathered one or two hundred Bermudians, half of them black, half of them white, and all of them nobbily dressed, as the poet says.
I was on the pier at this time, and shortly after I saw Mr. Parasyte coming down to see the students.
On the day that I was called up charged with fighting, the Splash--for that was the suggestive name I had chosen for my trim little craft--was lying at the boat pier on the lake in front of the Institute building.
The pier ran out from the island to the deep water, so that I had only to run the bow up to it, and make fast to the ring.
Mr. Parasyte stopped to procure his hat, which gave me the advantage in point of time, and I reached the little pier at which my boat was moored before he overtook me.
Who struck the first blow in the affray on the pier with Thornton?
It was fortunate for us that she lay at the pier in such a position as to require no special skill in handling her.
Again I distanced him, and ran as near to the pier as I dared to go, fearful that I might lose the wind under the lee of a bluff below the school grounds.
Mr. Parasyte reached the pier while I was thus engaged.
Both boats then pulled to the pier at the Institute.
Between the two islands there was a channel not more than twenty rods wide, by which alone the wood pier could be reached.
Vallington stood on a stump near the path leading from the pier to the interior of the island, and his forces were gathered behind him, leaving the road open for the passage of the invaders.
Near the south station, in the deepest water, there was a rude pier of logs built out, for the convenience of landing the parties.
The mistake was easily apparent and excusable, considering the confusion that had obtained on the pier at the time of their departure.
While I was gone, her examination was evidently finished, for when I came back she had left the pierwith all her things.
At the pier end beside her, he marked the ranks of casks, brown with sweating oil.
He made a Hercules for Pier Francesco de' Medici; and from the Guild of Porta Santa Maria he received the commission for a statue of S.
Everything below the cornices, between one pier and another, he adorned with festoons of stucco, vastly rich, and others painted, and all composed of most beautiful fruits and every sort of foliage.
When the pier was cut down its upper surface was therefore sloped toward the south, in order to compensate the error in the casting.
In July, 1898, the pier was therefore cut down two feet.
On the other hand, to stretch a solid pier across the drift, and to divert a current, may be to affect the coast line for hundreds of miles along the coast affected by the drift.
The inner side of the gateway, with the exception of the two columns and the pierwhich stand at the entrance of the Via di S.
Each pier has on the exterior twelve niches in two rows, with semicircular shell-shaped crowns.
One pier of the outer row towards the Forum has been restored by Rosa so as to show the original height.
Verification of the stability of an arch, and calculation of the pier supporting this arch.
The pier sheds have direct connection with the electric railway system of the city, so that freight can be quickly and cheaply transported under cover.
At Bais, Negros, a timber pierfor vessels of sixteen feet draft, with a stone causeway approach a mile and a half in length, and a warehouse for the temporary storage of sugar, have been constructed.
At Paracale, in Ambos Camarines, a reënforced concrete pierfour hundred ninety feet in length has been built.
Frequently the entire Pier is moulded without shafts, and the whole of the mouldings are carried round the Pier-arch.
The Pier is frequently so disposed that its transverse section is greater than its longitudinal section, or, in other words, it is thicker from North to South than it is from East to West.
He also brought word that the King had ordered a wooden pier to be run out into the water, with a small pavilion at the end of it.
On the ground floor the house is divided into three long and spacious apartments, opening into each other through centre arches, and which are redoubled upon the view by immense pier glasses at each end.
After ascending a flight of steps, from a handsome court yard, we entered a beautiful hall, which was lined with pier glasses, and decorated with festoons of artificial flowers, at the end of it was a fine statue of Venus de Medicis.
Just round the Nothe, the green and jutting headland between which and the pier the entrance to Weymouth Harbour lies, are Portland Roads, the magnificent harbour in which, when not at sea, the Home fleet frequently anchors.
Sure, ye'll be tired of waitin' on the ould pier hours afther ye get back," he said cheerfully.
The journey was not a long one; they turned down a slope presently, and drew up before a great gate across the end of a pier where two policemen were on duty to prevent the entrance of anyone without a pass.
The pier itself was crowded with officers, with a sprinkling of women and children--most of them looking impatient enough at being kept ashore instead of being allowed to seek their quarters on the ship.
She decided that she would walk; it would be more interesting, and the long wait on the pier would be shortened.
St. Kilda and all the foreshore were gay with flags, and all the ships in the harbour were dressed to welcome them; and beyond the pier were long lines of motors, each beflagged, waiting for the fighting men whom the Nauru was bringing home.
Orde tramped out to the end of the pier and back, mulling over the tangled problem.
For the few moments before she glided the length of the long pier to stiller water this fact sufficed.
The watchers streamed down from the pier for a better view.
At the edge of the pier was the tug's captain, Marsh, listening to earnest expostulation by a half-dozen of the leading men of the town, among whom were both Newmark and Orde.
It was necessary to pass the line around the end of the pier and back to the beach.
The crowd gathered at the pier comprised fully half the population of Monrovia.
Slowly the tug rose against its shoulder, was lifted onward, poised; and then with a swift forward thrust the wave broke, smothering the pier and lighthouse beneath tons of water.
I could see my mother, as of old, walking down to the pier to welcome and embrace, or to remonstrate and fondly chide when I had remained absent in stormy weather.
There was a boat, with rude stonepier and boat-house.
Arrived at the "Bluff," we found the greatest difficulty, from the violence of the wind, in walking along the wooden pier to where we saw the red funnel of the Union S.
We could only see the wooden pier by the light of the lantern held by an old man (we found it was full of holes the next morning), and we stumbled after him up a rough pathway.
Touching at the various thriving towns, we judged by the crowd who came down to the pier that it was the usual thing for the population to stroll down in the evening and watch for the arrival of the steamer.
The arching, thus extended outward from each pier and held in equilibrium, would have been connected at the crown with the extremity of the arch advanced in like manner from the adjoining pier.
The process of puddling and pumping out the water, and building up the pier within the dam thus formed, then proceeded in the usual manner.
By the 22d the first stone of the pierwas laid, and on the 14th of August the masonry was above water-level.
As it came down on the pier with a thud, his friend sprang to his feet.
The cruiser which John had sighted earlier in the morning drew up within easy distance of the pier and dropped anchor.
John sat down on the piersuddenly and very quietly.
He'd a' stayed on the pier all morning and hooked the big carp again.
The gaunt, gray-faced southerner stretched out on the pier for a nap.
So the boys dangled their feet over the edge of the pier until the lengthening shadows told that it was time to leave for home.
Say," John scratched nervously at a knot in a pier plank as he summoned courage for his request.
A fellow had returned from the pier with a string of perch a yard long dangling from his pole.
I'm going down the pier and see what the other fellows are catching.
His head felt heavy and kind of funny, but he didn't think that lazying around on the pier would be harmful.
They stretched themselves full length on the pier end and, with an occasional eye to the fishing poles, munched the uncouth slabs of bread and jam contentedly.
Once more they resumed their journey lakewards, breaking into the inevitable dogtrot as the long, dark pier came in sight.
It was day; the tidal train had come down to the pier bringing the passengers from Paris.
He had loafed on the pier at high tide, loafed in the streets, loafed in the cafes, loafed at Marowsko's, loafed everywhere.
Another and a similar voice answered with such another moan, but farther away; then, close by, the fog-horn on the pier gave out a fearful sound in answer.
And immediately, as if it had heard him, as if it had understood and answered him, the fog-horn on the pier bellowed out close to him.
A large crowd, the crowd which haunts the pier every day at high tide--was also drifting homeward.
This part of the pier had been but lately refaced with blocks of granite, so that it was almost clear of seaweed; but when I came to the old part, I found it so slippery with green weed that I had to climb up on to the roadway.
Keeping close to the wall that went about the pier on the seaward side, to escape the driving foam and the wind, which threatened every moment to lift us off our feet, we made our way in silence to the door of the square building.
