A light, quick step on thewharf attracted the attention of the skipper as he leaned against the side smoking.
The men on the wharf had gone for the day, and the crew of the Elizabeth Barstow, after making fast, went below to prepare themselves for an evening ashore.
The moment the boat touched the wharf at either city, they were ashore; and they were not likely to be seen again till the last bell was ringing and everything in readiness for another voyage.
Perhaps the proximity of the lake and the lure of the small fleet of canoes and rowboats tied up at the wharfhad something to do with the success of the swimming classes.
Thus incited, they went down to the wharf and made their choice of boats.
Then all in the same dim, misty way I found myself aboard, watching the wharf where my mother was standing with a lady friend, both waving their handkerchiefs.
Then the wharf seemed to be slowly gliding away and getting more and more distant, and then mixed up with it all came the sound of the bluff captain's voice, shouting orders to the men, who were hurrying about the deck.
The colossal negro's head and the stone wharf had excited my curiosity to an extent of which I was secretly ashamed, and I was prepared to gratify it at any cost.
Who would be stupid enough to build a wharf in the middle of these dreadful marshes in a country inhabited by savages--that is, if it is inhabited at all?
Looks rather like a wharf where good-sized vessels have been moored, does it not, Uncle Horace?
Drake had gone down the wharf with John Hawkins of Plymouth, a town that was warmly defiant of Spain's armed monopoly of sea-trade.
Drake laughed and brought his craft alongside an old wharf near which an ancient farm-house stood, half-hidden by a huge pollard willow.
Fortunately most of those on the wharf had been too much occupied to see Ojeda fall before the pig, and just then the trumpets blew, and all hastened to get back on board ship.
They reached the wharf just as the passengers landing at Polktown were streaming up from the boat.
The sloop swept majestically between the old wharf and the pine wood where the echo "lived.
Making his way to the wharf he curled up on some bags in front of the freight-house door.
Afterwards, Janice realized that the big sail of the sloop, flattened as it crossed between the wharf and the distant wood, had caught her voice and held it, echoless.
In staggering out of the monkey's way he well-nigh tumbled over Ailie, and in seeking to avoid her, he tumbled over the edge of the wharf into the river.
They passed the police on the wharf without creating suspicion, and reached the vessel.
It was a magnificent tropical morning when the boat left the side of the Red Eric and landed Glynn and Ailie, Tim Rokens and Phil Briant on the wharf that ran out from the yellow beach of the harbour in which their vessel lay.
With a splash and a flounce the two set out together, the green bathing dress and the triumphant blue; while Glyn sat alone on the wharf with a leaden heart and rage at his soul.
We run alongside the wharf jest as Booth Hank climbed over the stringpiece.
Up on the wharf we went and round the corner into a straggly kind of road with old-fashioned houses on both sides of it.
When Persis Leigh stepped onto the old wharf John Selwyn took her in his arms--and folks stopped cheering and begun to cry.
Every soul in the Glen and along the shore was at the old wharfto meet her.
Vessels sailed up the harbor every day to the wharf at the Glen, or sailed out again through the sunset, bound for ports that might be half way round the globe.
Chi Naigow afterwards went to a bay of Boisblanc, where the public wharf now is, where he cultivated land and died.
I was also Wharf Master of the city, and held the position of Major in the Nauvoo Legion; also, I commanded the escort in the Fifth Infantry.
When I landed on the wharf at St. Louis I met a negro by the name of Barton, who had formerly been a slave to my mother.
Cautiously the little group of six made their way in the direction of the wharf where the submarines were moored.
Jimmie as the edge of the wharf was gained, "I clean forgot my kit!
The next afternoon Noel, at the same hour, went down to the wharf and boarded the excursion boat, for the deliberate purpose of having some practical talk with Christine.
While my trunks were being taken to the wharf by Pompey and the other two darkeys, I had to pass through the painful ordeal of bidding farewell to my mother and sisters.
I made Prince gallop into the town as hard as I could, in spite of all he could say, for I was anxious to get down to the wharf before the passengers had landed from the steamer.
My boat is now waiting at the end of the wharf to take his traps.
The end of the long wharfwidened to a great square, free of all buildings but a sort of warehouse near one end.
Leaving the vessel anchored off the point, the little sloop stood away again for San Francisco, reaching the California Street wharf shortly after daylight.
You are hereby ordered to report to Lieutenant Hewes at Stryker's wharf at nine to-morrow morning for special duty.
While I was hanging around the wharf looking at her, and expressing by my face the sort of an opinion I had of the way her crew went about their work, a mean-looking fellow came up to me and asked me if I didn't want to ship.
Or else to walk with Abby in the morning down the broad Embarcadero Road to the little wharf on the bay.
He railed against the citizens because they would not rush down to the wharf and repel the invader with clubs and stones.
The harbor boasted a single wharf or pier, of logs and earth, near which for protection two small cannon were placed behind an earthwork.
At the end of that time they reappeared at Havana, disembarked, fell upon their knees, and on their knees made their way from the wharf to the church, where they offered thanks for their deliverance.
Howes’ tender of £385 accepted by the Corporation for erecting the Fish Wharf master’s house; the same contractor on Aug.
Fish Wharf scheme proposed, and on April 20th the wharf was commenced by “turning the sod.
Two hundred and forty millions of herring landed at the Fish Wharf during the whole of the present season.
Policemen would stop us, and it was with difficulty and much trepidation that we walked through the burned district, and arrived at the wharf at 5:15, just fifteen minutes before the boat left.
Along thewharf front great ocean steamers have bodily dumped themselves on the big piers, and lie there, great masses of iron and wood that even fire cannot totally destroy.
I fancy that scores of men, wharf rats, who had looted wholesale liquor houses and were maudlin drunk, were burned to death without being the wiser, because of their condition.
On his reaching the wharf he presented the order, and two boxes were delivered to him by Mr. Bristoll, the foreman, which he put into the cab.
He gave the foreman of the wharf a shilling for his civility, and then drove away without the smallest suspicion being excited that he was not fully entitled to the goods which he had claimed.
When they were let off for dinner they skimmed off all they could get from the ship's slop barrel which stood on the wharf alongside, to help out their very scanty food.
Both landed at Benecia, and when we swung away from that wharf Rogers and I saluted each other with raised and swinging hats, shouted a good bye, and I have never seen him since.
As there was no wharf our schooner put out into the lake again for an hour or so and then ran back again, lying off and on in this manner all night.
We found a wharf and warehouse at the lake, and a steamer lay there all ready to go across to the other side.
Here nearly every one went on shore, and as there was nowharf for the vessel to lie to, the native canoes had many passengers at a dollar apiece for passage money.
The city is all on the right side of the bay and our coal yard was on the left at a short wharf at which we landed.
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