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Example sentences for "wharfage"

Lexicographically close words:
whar; wharbouts; whare; wharever; wharf; wharfinger; wharfs; wharves; whas; whase
  1. One advantage to the first boat was free wharfage the balance of the season in every town and city along the river.

  2. A prize had been offered, free wharfage for the season, amounting to a thousand dollars, for the boat that would get to St. Paul first that year.

  3. But on the 18th of July, with unlimited wharfage at a distance of two miles and a half, with excellent roads, and with abundance of transportation (see Gen.

  4. From that day forward there was unlimited wharfage at disposal, and there were excellent macadamized roads leading to all parts of the command.

  5. He had been sent out to collect wharfage accounts.

  6. The largest steamers afloat can find wharfage at her docks and safe anchorage in her waters.

  7. In addition to these lines, many steamboats and crafts of all kinds, plying the waters of Puget Sound and the Pacific ocean, find abundant wharfage and anchorage in the harbor of Tacoma.

  8. What are wharfage fees when you've caught the fellow and secured the plunder?

  9. Because we're making this voyage as cheaply as possible, and mustn't pay any unnecessary wharfage fees.

  10. Why, I'd pay your wharfage fees at every landing from here to New Orleans.

  11. In return for this grant Carpentier agreed to build three wharves and a schoolhouse, and to pay to the town 2 per cent of his wharfage receipts—certainly a modest recompense.

  12. These rates were shown to be controlled by the class rate of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, which quoted a through first-class rate of 52 cents, including wharfage and handling, between San Francisco and Los Angeles via San Pedro.

  13. Wharfage facilities were limited to two concerns, one of them being the Southern Pacific Terminal Co.

  14. Yet it appeared on complaint that one merchant had been granted wharfage space under discriminatingly favorable conditions.

  15. The complaints in the memorial state that the landing at Quebec of cargoes for Montreal “must be attended with very heavy expense for agents, wharfage and labourers, besides the waste that will happen on cargoes of liquor by landing.

  16. The Harbour Commissioners’ tracks pass behind the sheds affording direct communication all over the harbour, while excellent wharfage facilities permit of the circulation of any amount of traffic.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wharfage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    admission; anchorage; brokerage; carfare; charge; demand; dues; exaction; fare; fee; hire; pier; pilotage; portage; salvage; shot; storage; toll; towage