London, as has already been observed, possesses no line of quays on the river.
Most unfortunately, the beauty of this noble stream is much hidden from the spectator, there being very few quays or promenades along its banks.
There are twelve acres of water area, and about as much of quays and warehouses.
Bordering the Loire at Tours is a series of tree-lined quays and promenades which are the scenes, throughout the spring and summer months, of fetes and fairs of many sorts.
Its quays and its squares lend an air of gaiety to its proud old hotel de ville and its grim chateau.
It is not that it is so very hot in degree, but that the lack of shade-trees along its quays gives Amboise a shimmering resemblance to a much warmer place than it really is.
Skill and enterprise have deepened the Clyde, dredged away its shoals, built quays and wharves along its banks, and rendered it one of the busiest streams in the world, It has become a great river thoroughfare, worked by steam.
Tio-King, since he discovered Cornaro's little book on the quays of the Seine, has been seeking to make his existence conform to the "art of living long in perfect health.
Following the slope of the streets, I come out on the quays by the Koura, the bed of which divides the town into two unequal parts.
Here am I wandering at a venture; but to wander is human, says the collegians of Bordeaux, as they muse on the quays of the Gironde.
Alexandria was completed, with its unrivalled harbours, its stately public buildings, its broadquays and its spacious streets.
It was from its quaysthat the vessels started for the Syrian coast.
Commissioner street faces the quaysand monopolizes much of the wholesale trade.
The new picture gallery close to the southern quays is a fine building divided into ancient and modern sections.
All this time the feelings of the crowd on the bridges and quays appeared to be singularly calm.
The streets were now alive with people, the quays and bridges being still resorted to, on account of their affording an unobstructed avenue to the sounds that came from the quarter where the conflict was going on.
From the Pont Royal I proceeded to the Pont Neuf, where the collection of people was still more numerous, every eye being fastened on the quays in the direction of the Place de la Bastille, near which the disturbance had commenced.
As I crossed the Pont Royal, a brigade of light artillery came up the quays from the Ecole Militaire, the horses on the jump, and the men seated on the carriages, or mounted, as belongs to this arm.
There were a few people on the quays and bridges, and, here and there, a solitary National Guard was going to his place of rendezvous.
I met but half a dozen people between the quaysand the Hotel de ----, and all the shops were hermetically sealed.
Walking along the quays he admired “the granite quays” which are remarkable for their beauty, solidity and extent.
The type of Port of Montreal is a combination of a protected tidal basin, riverside quaysand pier jetties.
But as it is almost wholly of stone in the business portions and along the extensive and massive quays which line the banks of the river, Montreal makes a dignified, indeed, an imposing effect.
But London, the oldest and greatest of river ports, does not possess as much as a hundred yards of open quays upon its river front.
They lie open to their stream, with quays like broad clearings, with streets like avenues cut through thick timber for the convenience of trade.
A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint.
The door slammed, and the carriage drove rapidly away, ascending the quays in the direction of the Bastille.
Not a single light burned in the houses of the city; no one was passing; all of the streets and quays which could be seen were deserted; Notre-Dame and the towers of the Court-House seemed features of the night.
On a windy Saturday morning--a week after the death of my poor dog--I was loitering about the quays in the port, when I was attracted towards a little crowd that had gathered round an old capstan.
At certain places roadways would cut through the promenade to provide access to ramps leading down to the quays and to provide places for freight trucks to stand while being loaded and unloaded.
On days when the sky was clear, they could see the long line of quaysstretching away into space directly they had crossed the Pont Louis-Philippe.
All along the quays they scarcely spoke; the matter remained unmentioned between them while the sun set in the coppery sky.
Claude restrained a gesture of impatience; and, letting his friend cross the bridge, he went his way along the quays by himself.
At the Quai des Ormes she always bade Claude go back, as if Paris, with her crowds and possible encounters, began at the long stretch of quays which she had to traverse on her way home.
A week later, when the sun again showed itself, and Claude extolled the solitude of the quays round the Isle Saint Louis, Christine consented to take a walk.
I may also mention, perhaps, that the long walks on the quaysof Paris which in the narrative are attributed to Claude Lantier are really M.
And when he had reached the quays again, he thought of going home to see whether his picture was really so very bad.
The quaysstretched away showing double rows of those luminous beads whose reverberation glimmered on the nearer frontages.
He dragged his black melancholy along the quays until mid-day, his head so heavy, so full of thoughts of his lack of power, that he only espied the well-loved horizons of the Seine through a mist.
The quays become vocal with shouts, yells, calls, whistles, and the most stupid din and hubbub confounds the night, utterly destructive of sleep.
It was a variety to launch the dingey, and scull along the quays and visit the other yachts, all of them most hospitable to the Rob Roy.
An immense concourse of people followed by a natural impulse this mass of bayonets that slowly descended the quays and the rue du Gros-Caillou, towards the Champ-de-Mars.
In the morning she traversed these quays with holy zeal, in order to go to church, and that she might not meet in this lone road any thing to distract her attention.
The quays were crowded with persons whose anger vented itself in reproaches against him, which he supported with the utmost apparent serenity.
Behind the quays rises a wall of rubble-work faced with Maltese stone, in which at regular intervals are pierced the arched openings that form the entrances to the dry docks.
The roads adjacent to the harbour and all the quays were so densely thronged, that it was only with considerable difficulty that we could force our way along.
For a long while he wandered about the quays in a state of gloomy indecision, stopping every now and then to run his eye over the shipping, and his expression becoming darker still every time he did so.
In the days before the railway came through, Woodbridge was the commercial centre for a large section of East Suffolk; it was a busy port, and the quays were crowded with shipping.
They lived with their grandmother, near the quays in Amsterdam, where the masts of ships and the smell of tar interfered with their lessons.
Do you remember a little lad sitting crying on the quays at Dublin, to whom he gave a bundle of old clothes?
The Shannon is a good deal of a river, and has been walled in with cut stone and wide quays that are equipped with modern machinery for loading and unloading vessels, although there isn't much commerce.
The entire distance from these quays to the Atlantic Ocean at Queenstown, about twelve miles, is a panorama of beauty.
They are walled up with masonry, and wide quays on either side furnish plenty of room for handling the commerce, which seems to be considerable.
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