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Example sentences for "quayside"

Lexicographically close words:
quavered; quavering; quavers; quay; quays; que; quean; queans; queasy; queat
  1. That grizzled, tough old lumberman who toted you along up from the quayside is the brain of this organisation.

  2. The business of running in to the quayside was beginning in earnest.

  3. For Bat, the walk up from the quayside was one of the many milestones in his chequered life.

  4. Guess I've a trunk back there in the hold somewhere," Bull replied indifferently, taking his interrogator for a quayside porter.

  5. He turned from the morning noises of the quayside and walked through Lime street.

  6. Hurrying to her squalid deathlair from gay Paris on the quayside I touched his hand.

  7. Crates lined up on the quayside at Jaffa, chap ticking them off in a book, navvies handling them barefoot in soiled dungarees.

  8. Muhammed dropped back into the shadow of the quayside booths, and sauntered carelessly up the citadel ramp.

  9. A guardia civile sauntered along the quayside edge and looked down into the waiting boat.

  10. Its foam-plumed crest roared over the quayside and the Marina five fathoms deep.

  11. Before they reached the quayside the last wisp of vapor had disappeared.

  12. A brief telephone message to the little hut on the quayside from the adjacent naval base to the effect that M.

  13. An episode of this kind occurred one snowy January night in 1917 on the quayside of a northern seaport.

  14. On the quayside a big aerial torpedo had made a crater large enough to bury the horse which it had killed in a near-by stable.

  15. Tramping through the streets of the ancient town to turn in at the dock gates, company after company of troops file down the quayside to embark on the great adventure.

  16. Cargo work on the quayside comes to a halt for want of service.

  17. The Quayside always was too big, As scullers have attested; Tant ships, that come with rampant rig, Against its sides are rested.

  18. On the quayside hundreds of troops, French, Serbians, Russians and Greeks, were shouting and making the harbour a babel of foreign tongues.

  19. As soon as the train stopped on the quayside we were busy transferring our stores, and for a couple of hours fatigue parties were constantly up and down the gangways.

  20. They have waylaid me at the House or Club, sometimes on the quayside at Calais--threadbare, furtive and spirituous, even at ten in the morning.

  21. And then the roar of the quayside in Marseilles.

  22. After sending off a reply telegram to Cherbourg (which reached the quayside too late and was afterwards returned to him), the shipowner got a telephone call through to Olive at the Hotel des Hespérides.

  23. As the liner lay by the quayside with smoke pouring from her funnels and the bustle of near departure on her decks, a telegram in reply was brought to Arthur Dean.

  24. On the quayside is the old Priory Mill, now called Place Mill, which is mentioned in the Domesday Survey.

  25. The quayside is always a busy spot, and a good deal of shipbuilding and repairing is still carried on.

  26. I carried out my orders on the quayside and learned that four of Spinola's galleys have set out this morning to hunt down the black galley.

  27. Myga sat in her little room behind the city walls along the quayside in Antwerp.

  28. The lights of the quayside shimmered redly through the mist and the rigging of the galleon, the Andrea Doria, dripped with condensation.

  29. The crowd was thronging round the quayside down below.

  30. In the sentry box on the quayside a drum came to life and beat out the Spanish call to arms.

  31. The following evening Myga van Bergen was sitting in one of the high gable houses behind the city wall on the quayside in Antwerp in the immediate vicinity of her small night light.

  32. I have endeavored to describe the scenes at the quayside on Thursday morning, and I now turn to the Central Station, where incidents of a similar kind were happening.

  33. People stood in dumb and patient ranks drawn down to the quayside by the announcement that two boats would leave at 11 o'clock for Ostend, and Ostend looks across to England, where lie their hopes.

  34. Immense crowds of them, men, women and children, gathered along the quayside and at the railway stations in an effort to make a hasty exit from the city.


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