He was the waterfront merchant who had recognized Berdue.
The waterfront housed the temporary prison, the immigration offices, and the launch service that went out to the aquariums and hydroponics plants that floated on vast pontoons three miles away.
On thewaterfront street, the noise was thunderous.
Thick with humanity and garbage, it reached from the waterfront to the border of the hive houses in which lived the clerks and professionals of Toron.
At the traffic dummy swing right and then left at Thurston's Spar Yard and follow Rogers Street along the waterfront to the main office of the Frank E.
We'll try," I said, and that same night Marsh sent word through a friend to the mayor asking him to close all barrooms on the waterfront during the strike.
And now here he was down on the waterfront with only the stars above him and great shadowy spaces all around, out of which at any moment he expected rushes by strikers.
And over across the way," he went on, "I saw something on the waterfront that fitted right into the scenery.
And when the barrooms and the women and all the waterfront sharks have stripped 'em of their last red cent, then the crimps collect an advance allotment from their future wages to ship 'em off to sea again.
On walks along the waterfront he would treat it all like a graveyard.
As I went along thewaterfront I felt a confused disappointment.
The weather had turned cold over-night, and when I came to the waterfront I felt the big raw breath of the sea.
There are over seven hundred miles of waterfront in this small port, and I'm not going to have you trudging around and getting lost and tired and cross and working off your grudge in your writing.
And from the waterfrontbelow the same puffs and coughs of engines, the same sharp toots and treble pantings, the same raucous whine of wheels.
In the strike these wanderers over the earth had met on the waterfront under a wagon where each had come to sleep the night.
Meanwhile I had gone in June to the South Brooklyn waterfront and had taken a room in a tenement near the end of a dock peninsula which jutted out into the bay.
But I doggedly found other blemishes here--swamps, railroad yards and sooty tracks that filled the waterfront for miles where there should have been parks and boulevards.
The waterfront was empty, swept clean of all that I disliked.
Walking now down the waterfront I met only a figure here and there.
One other thing he did, however, before the sailboat left Barmouth, and that was to get a canoe he owned out from a shed on the waterfront and fasten it behind the Argo.
On the waterfrontthey encountered a man--he had been a sea-captain in his day--smoking a pipe and regarding the lights of the harbor.
The business day ends at the many freight-houses along the waterfront of Manhattan and Brooklyn at four o'clock in the afternoon.
What would they say to the boys of my time bathing in Nature's suit only, and that on the waterfront from James Bay bridge all around to the Hudson's Bay Company's wharf?
The waterfront side of Wharf Street, from the Hudson's Bay Company's store south, is a blank until you reach the old cooperage, next to the late custom house.
All the same, to me the waterfront is the most fascinating part of Riverview," Penny declared.
Ben walked with her through the waterfront district, and then reluctantly said goodbye.
I intended to drive to the waterfront this morning and see how Ben Bartell is making out.
There's a place here on the waterfront that serves good meals, but it's not stylish.
Sometime when I need a good waterfront story, I may call on you," Penny said jokingly.
No guards were anywhere near, and the entire waterfront seemed deserted.
The waterfront is strictly guarded now," the reporter told Penny.
Down the lane, in the darkness, I tore like a hurricane, then along the waterfront until there was a mile between me and the scene of my late encounter.
He was quite insensible of our presence, for he was as drunk as any waterfront loafer.
In the most obscure alley in Marseilles there is a caf frequented by sailors, riff-raff from the waterfront and thieves.
But for the most part the waterfront was deserted.
So we find the plant along the Brooklyn waterfrontoccupying an area of a dozen city blocks.
Storing at Santos At Santos most of the storing is done in the steel warehouses of the City Dock Company, a private corporation whose warehouses extend for three miles along the waterfront at one end of the town.
I tried to persuade the other fellows to come up to the Queen's Hotel along the Scheldt waterfront on the northern side of the city, where I was then encamped.
For a moment the walls of the houses trembled and every window on the waterfront was broken.
After dusk, the crew poured en masse to the nearestwaterfront saloon with me.
Then, one afternoon, in high disgust over my usual quarrel with the English teacher, I returned to my room determined to leave for the New York waterfront that same afternoon.
These passed through the city to the waterfront at a spanking trot, unlimbered on the quays and opened fire with shrapnel on the retreating Belgians, who had already reached the opposite side of the river.
The mines which were exploded beneath it did more damage to the buildings along the waterfront than to the bridge, however, only the middle spans of which were destroyed.
All the workers and loafers of the waterfront were about it, but Goeltz would let none enter it, he believing it might be needed untouched as evidence of some sort.
Imagine the excitement along the waterfront when, almost coincident with the sighting of the Noa-Noa, the Saint Michel appeared, pulled by the Cholita.
The stevedores and roustabouts of the waterfront made ballads of happenings as their forefathers had chants of the fierce adventures of their constant warfare.
The crew were of all sorts, the usual waterfront unemployed, wretchedly paid and badly treated.
You'll have half the waterfront on your heels if you let it out that you're taking Dinshaw to his island.
His shares in the Commercial Wharf lay in the safes of a banking house, and the dollars he had raised on them were valiantly doing duty in holding at bay a pressing debt on precariously held waterfront equities.
As fast as he acquired a dollar, he invested it in a new chance, until his interests extended from the Presidio to the waterfront of the inner bay.
If you want to make money, you just buy some of those waterfront lots.
The whole deserted waterfront lay wrapped in the shroud of the fog, lulled by the lap of water against pilings and the faint creakings of small craft at their moorings.
I pointed out how the Legislature could give the whole waterfront to the hayseeds over the head of the Dock Commissioner in the same way, and warned the Mayor that nations had rebelled against their governments for less.
We don't own our streets or our docks or our waterfront or anything else.
A breeze had come up during the night, and it was driving the fire onward toward the waterfront of the building.
In order to watch all sides of the boathouse, he had been tramping around three of its walls, from the waterfront on one side to the waterfront on the other.
Rick's idea was to go through the quadrant of town they were now traversing, until he saw the waterfront on the west.
The boys moved rapidly along the street at the top of the T, toward the waterfront on the south.
The boys turned swiftly at Hartson Brant's call and hurried from the waterfront to the big Brant house.
As the taxi carried the Spindrifters from the airport past the waterfront area, Rick saw bright-colored sails mixed with the drab steel of cargo ships.
It wasn't likely that the thief would leave the launch anywhere around the town, but they searched the waterfront thoroughly to be on the safe side and then ran across the river to the Groton shore.
By the time that repast was ready the waterfront was wide awake and the sun was shining warmly.
About her in the darkness the lights of other craft twinkled and the curving waterfront of the old town was dimly illumined.
