That merchants of all nations had their keys and wharfs at this city, whereunto they brought their merchandises before and in the reign of Henry II.
In this street, on the Thames side, are divers large landing-places called wharfs or keys, for craneage up of wares and merchandise, as also for shipping of wares from thence to be transported.
These wharfs and keys commonly bear the names of their owners, and are therefore changeable.
It feeds during the larger part of the year in the surf, and is caught from the wharfs or by long casts with heavy sinkers from the beach.
From the wharfs he can angle for smelt, mackerel and perch, as well as for halibut and other bottom fishes.
The boarding-house was a full half-mile from the wharfs of the village, and after a hundred yards Burns slowed down into a rapid walk.
When he had gained this information Burns hurried from the house and toward the spot on the beach between the wharfs where his dory lay.
The wharfs and fish-houses were at last burning and property on the leeward side of the flames was declared to be safe.
There is a good harbor, and there are wharfs where blackfaced men with blue stockings, caps, and gold earrings chatter the patois and smoke their pipes.
There are capacious wharfs and roomy warehouses, yet one laments over the absence of everything like trade and business.
The wharfs at New York are necessarily dirty, and are a scene of indescribable bustle from morning to night, with ships arriving and sailing, ships loading and unloading, and emigrants pouring into the town in an almost incessant stream.
Its wharfs are always crowded with freight and passenger steamers, by which it communicates two or three times a day with the great cities of the United States, and Quebec and Montreal.
At last, when it seemed as though I could not wade any more of those icy streams and continue to walk, we came in sight of the electric lights on the wharfs of Dyea, sparkling like jewels against the gray night.
The delicate iridescence of the London air gave the softness of a pastel to the gray stone of the buildings; and in the wharfs and storehouses there was the severity of grace of a Japanese print.
The wharfs and store-houses of the Surrey Side were massed in disorderly loveliness.
The oyster stands established on its wharfs appeared sprinkled with this water impregnated by shell fish.
Between their hulls and the vertical surface of the wharfs would be formed mountains of restless rubbish eaten underneath by the fish and pecked above by the sea-gulls.
It is a 1,300-pound iron piledriver which was once used to build wharfs and piers.
In order to accommodate such large sailing vessels, piers and wharfs had to be built at Jamestown.
Upon the wharfs and quays adjoining, all West India ships unload and load their cargoes.
The West and East India Docks receive now, most of the shipping used to and from those countries, and are considered more secure from robberies, than the open wharfs by the sides of the river Thames used to be.
It may then be compelled to a respect for cities and government signals and wharfs and mills.
One town and another have been ostracized or destroyed, their wharfs left far inland or carried away to some commerceless bayou.
They no longer draw the throngs daily to the wharfs as in the days of the glory of the steamboat.
The wharfs were built of wood; they jutted out, in every direction, and were well adapted for the accommodation of shipping; the largest merchant vessels being able to lie close alongside of them.
This place carries on a considerable trade; and the warehouses and wharfs are very commodious.
This noble river affords a safe navigation for vessels of a thousand tuns burden up to the wharfs of the city.
The launch was steered directly for the ironclad, which lay at one of the wharfs of Plymouth, protected by a raft of logs extending thirty feet.
The rapidity with which the swampy banks of the Neva were covered with wharfs and buildings has been almost unexampled in history.
Have I not seen you, and your two companions who are in the boat, reconnoitring us half the day, from the wharfs of the town, and even from the old tower on the hill?
Again and again the haze wreathed and went out, discovering wharfs and gold inscriptions, uncovering barges aground upon the purple slime of the Southwark shore, their yellow yards pointing like birds with outstretched necks.
The Peninsular and Oriental Steamers' wharfs are situated at the head of a small bay, with the island of Pulo Brani in front.
Hence distrust in commerce; and hence the sailor will not find a tithe of the shipping in Callao Roads that he will at the wharfs of Valparaiso.
Splendid wharfshave been erected by the many steam-ship companies and merchants, and there are fortifications which command the harbour and roads.
Around is the shipping of every clime; enormous ferry-boats radiating in all directions; forests of masts along the wharfsbearing the flags of all nations.
Valparaiso Harbour is always full of shipping, its wharfs piled with goods; while the railroad and old road to the capital, Santiago, bears evidence of the material prosperity of the country.
The Christopher who wandered amongst the wharfs and warehouses in that vague region across the river, remembered and was concerned over quite different matters to the happy boy who rode every morning in the Row with Mr. Aston.
We went into camp a mile or so from the historic old Yorktown, if a few old tumbled down houses and a row of wooden wharfs could be called a town.
The wooden wharfs were even with the deck, so we had no difficulty in stepping from one to the other.
It is hardly necessary to say, that these consist of wharfs and warehouses, and new buildings in all directions; and of a great many vast plans which are still 'progressing.
Similarly, the wealth of China and the East was first collected upon the wharfs of Batavia before it was finally despatched to the various ports of Europe and America.
The smooth fogbound water of the bay had possessed no voice that night except at the piling of the wharfs where, fumbling and muttering secretly, it encountered the transitory obstruction of the works of man.
The harbour is crowded with steamers and sailing vessels, and the wharfs present a busy sight.
The Persians are of sober habits, and can be relied upon for regular attendance at the wharfs and loading-stages.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wharfs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
