The two men walked along the quay and into the High Street, the skipper shrugging his shoulders good-naturedly as he caught, through a half-open door, a glimpse of his crew settling down to business.
He ran up the rigging, and stepping on to the quay seized her hand.
She stepped to the side, and, assisted by the skipper, clambered up on to the quay again.
He straddled from the quay to the rigging, and extending his hand in the midst of a perfect silence, helped her to the deck.
Two or three seamen came up the quay and went aboard the steamer in the next berth.
They paused at the top and looked back; Stone-pen Quay was still laughing.
The cook, with a flushed face, glanced along the quay to the schooner.
At midday he begged some broken victuals from a gamekeeper's cottage, and with renewed vigor resumed his journey, and at ten o'clock that night staggered on to Brittlesea quay and made his way cautiously to the ship.
He walked back as sharply as he could to the schooner, his mind in a whirl with the events of the evening, and as he neared the quay broke into a run, in awkward imitation of a small figure approaching from the opposite direction.
Almost as excited as the cook, the skipper sprang ashore and hurried along the quay with him, violently shaking off certain respectable citizens who sought to detain the cook, and ask him what he meant by it.
Men of marine appearance, in baggy trousers and tight jerseys, came slowly on to the quay and stared meditatively at the water or shouted vehemently at other men, who had got into small boats to bale them out with rusty cans.
The persistent tinkle of a cracked bell from a small brick church in the town, and the appearance of two girls walking along the quay with hymn-books, followed by two young men without, reminded him that it was Sunday.
After tea his impatience got the better of his caution, and, pulling his hat over his eyes, he went on the quay too.
The cook having replied in fitting terms, they moved off down the quay to the next tavern.
When they reached the quay the sun was setting, the boat was waiting, the sailors immovable, their oars held straight in the air.
As they neared the quay he took from the hands of one of his men two bouquets of gardenias and orchids, and offered them to the two ladies; they were in pretty cornucopiæ of silvered wicker-work.
I fear you will find it a dull story,' said he, as they left the quay and passed up a steep path, always under the shadow of the trees.
The beautiful walk from Cotehele Quay to the house is a wreck that fifty years will not set in the same form as it existed before the 9th of March.
Some of the stores along the North quaywere roughly handled by the wind, the roof of the new coal store of Messrs.
They had met again in the evening, and taken a short stroll along the quay where a noisy band was discoursing operatic airs.
Don Francesco, the smiling priest, soon outstripped both of them, in spite of a ten minutes' conversation on the quay with the pretty peasant girl of the steamer.
The smell of the herring is there, of course; the serried rows of steam-trawlers along the quay suggest that this herring fishery is a long way from being so picturesque a business as it was.
On the other hand, time spent in talking with the people in warm bar-parlours of an evening, or among the mariners who idle on the quay by day, as mariners always have and always will, is apt to be rewarded by no means ill.
Go down to the whaling quay and see what they bring ashore in a single day at this time of the year--it isn't far from your place.
Holm, when he had been standing a while on the quay and had caught sight of the man.
They drove down to the quayfor the chest, and then out toward the country again.
Up on the quay the police stood ready to fall upon the "Great Power" with ropes; but the old woman was like pepper and salt when she saw their intention.
Holm became so light on his legs one might have thought he was treading on needles; when the derrick swung round over the quay and the chain came rattling down, he ran right back to the granary.
Like a sleep-walker, she staggered along the quay and went over the long bridge.
It was like a quay on which people from all parts of the world had agreed to meet--artists, seamen and international agents.
The bank did not run more than thirty yards beyond the heap, and then plunged under the water which washed the quay wall.
The fugitive could not have thrown himself into the Seine, or have climbed up the quay wall, without being seen by his pursuer.
The pile of rubbish formed on the water-side a sort of eminence extending in a promontory to the quay wall; the pursued man reached this small mound and went round it, so that he was no longer seen by the other.
They quitted the quay and turned into the streets; and the driver, a black outline on his seat, lashed his lean horses.
This point of the quay is a very little distance from the house brought from Moret to Paris in 1824 by Colonel Brack, and called the house of Francis I.
All that we had time to see, this afternoon, was the fortress château, which stands high up on the Quay de Limoges, overlooking the junction of the Loire and the Thouet.
They tore about the littlequay and landing place in the greatest excitement.
This little quay communicated with a rude staircase, already repeatedly mentioned, which descended from the old castle.
Matthew Stanley Quay was a conspicuous figure in our political history.
Senator Quay was returned to the Senate after a desperate struggle.
Few men in American political life have had so constant a struggle as did Senator Quay to retain his ascendancy in Republican politics in Pennsylvania.
Quay was the bigger man of the two; but it must be said, in justice to both of them, that the word of either was as good as his bond.
But she knew no doubt, and when he halted in the shadow of the deserted quay and took her face once more between his hands with the one word, "Tomorrow!
As he went down the road that ran to the quay a terrible streak of lightning reft the dark sky, and the wild crash of thunder that followed drowned even the roaring babel of the sea.
Half a dozen fishing boats were unloading their catch upon the quayin the evening.
This quay had been built upon the river-front soon after the death, in 1615, of Marguerite de Valois, Henri IV.
Whatever they played, neither the rough men of the quay and of Port Saint-Paul, nor the bourgeoisie of the Marais, nor the fine folk of Place Royale, crowded into the new theatre.
Many of the buildings left on the quay are of the date and appearance of this, his last bachelor home.
And then, as they followed the quay of the Gave, they all at once came upon the Grotto.
It had been necessary to put back the river's bed in order to gain ground, and lay out a monumental quay bordered by a broad footway, and protected by a parapet.
At last he halted, and backed the little car against the quay parapet, in full view of the Grotto.
Then, taking a somewhat oblique course, he ended by reaching the quay beside the Gave, where there were only some spectators standing on the sidewalk, so that he was able to advance another fifty yards.
The girl who was working single-handed in this barn until we arrived was walking along the quay yesterday when a feeble voice called her from a stretcher.
But as the old familiar quay hove in sight my spirits rose.
In the evening, after dark, the really respectable travellers do not quit the brilliant dining saloons of the hotels, and the quay is left quite solitary beneath the stars.
But this modern quay of Luxor, where I disembark at ten o'clock in the morning in clear and radiant sunshine, is not without its amusing side.
The most commonplace of hackney-carriages, which I hired by the hour on the quay of Assouan.
On this quay of Assouan, so carefully levelled, defiles briskly a continual stream of fair travellers ravishingly dressed as only those know how who have made a tour with Cook & Son (Egypt Ltd.
After dinner we strolled along the quay to the south of Sebenico.
The people of Parenzo now are more concerned with developing their commerce than with insisting upon their rights, and the quay presents a busy scene when the wine-boats are lading.
It is interesting to watch the boatloads of country-folk arriving either by the Porta Terra Ferma, close to which are steps and a small harbour, or on the quay by the Porta Marina.
The quay has several fronting on to it, specially a lofty tower-like building of the fourteenth century with later windows and balconies inserted.
The quay was crowded with passengers, and a queerly shaped engine, belching forth thick smoke, with train attached, was drawn up behind them.
The wall of the quay was being rebuilt when we were there the second time, and a diver was working at it.
From the sea the walls appear almost perfect, but there is a wide quay all round the town, and the houses stretch a long way along the shore.
She rides, goes to the races in her carriage, and drives her husband at the same rate as her little phaeton on the quay at Asnieres.
You remember, Lambert, how five years ago, you were in New York, and we stood on the quay and saw your country people leave the ship, poor simpletons!
The big man touched his three-cornered hat, but, instead of leaving the place, went with heavy strides to the edge of the quay and looked at the ship, which had by this time raised its anchor and was being slowly driven on by the tide.
Do you see that man near the edge of the quay close to Mr. Pitcher?
A rather crude stone statue of William stands on the quay and a brass foot-print on the shore marks the exact spot where the Dutch prince first set foot in England, accompanied by an army of thirteen thousand men.
He seemed to recognize at once that we were strangers--Americans, they all know it intuitively--and left his task to show us about the immense quay where the fishermen dispose of their catch at auction.
