Next morning he was down at the wharves before six o'clock, smoking his pipe contentedly, after breakfasting sumptuously at a coffee-stall for sixpence.
But the day came when he had to spend his last shilling, and after a fruitless endeavour to get a job on the wharves to drive one of the many steam winches at work discharging cargo from the various ships, he returned home in disgust.
At nine o'clock the garrison left Bunker Hill; fleets of boats loaded with soldiers and Tories put out from the wharves of Boston.
At one end was what was known as the North Battery; the wharves of merchants and dockyards of shipbuilders lined the water side of it; while upon the other were gloomy-fronted warehouses and the offices of shipmen of various degrees.
If he danced all night at the wharves they were still with him, and if he walked far and wide over the frozen sea, they followed him there.
There will be dancing in the wharves every night of the week.
We were told that the channel from the sea to the town was to be deepened so as to admit of vessels reaching the wharves at all stages of the tide, and that dredging for this purpose would begin at once.
Two huge dredging-machines were seen busily at work deepening the channel, so that vessels drawing not over twenty-two feet of water can lie at the wharves and discharge cargo.
Dunedin is no exception to this rule, rising rather abruptly from the plateaux where are the wharvesand business centre of the town, to the summit of the foot-hills about which it lies.
Walking about the wharves in the early morning we one day saw and awaited the mooring of the incoming boat from Parametta.
Port Chalmers, situated a few miles below Dunedin, forms an outer harbor, so to speak; but vessels drawing twenty feet of water moor at the city wharves at high tide.
The wharves are spacious and most substantially built, with ample depth alongside.
A direct line of railway, seven miles long, connects the Exhibition with the wharves at Port Adelaide, where ships of the largest tonnage can lie at the pier and discharge their cargoes.
After a narrow entrance is passed, the harbor opens into a magnificent sheet of water, in which the largest ships may ride in safety and discharge their cargoes at wharves built upon the busiest streets of the town.
Their rank, fishy flavor renders them unfit for the table, though the Chinamen about the wharves secretly snare and eat them.
After receiving the November message he stopped haunting the wharves and commenced to frequent the steamship offices of the Hamburg-American, North German Lloyd and Llanarch lines.
For weeks at a time he haunted the docks and wharves along the New York water front.
Dredging is still going on with new wharves in process of construction and projected, so that today frontage on the bay is valuable and hard to secure at any price.
The Western Railway of Havana runs through the entire length of the vegetable belt, reinforced by a splendid automobile drive, more or less parallel, connecting the further extremity of Pinar del Rio with the markets and wharves of Havana.
A series of magnificent modern wharves have been built along the western shore of the harbor, furnishing splendid shipping facilities for incoming and outgoing vessels.
Under normal conditions $8 seems to be the ruling price for Cuban potatoes on the wharves at New York, where they are sold as exotics or new potatoes.
The complete system of wharves and warehouses at Regla passed into the possession of the Company at the same time.
The iron on the south coast is loaded into the steamers from the wharvesat Daiquiri and Juraguay.
Good wharves and spacious warehouses line the shores of the commercial part of the city.
Also mentioning more distant points visible to the spectator looking beyond the suburbs: The Lumber Yards, Wharves and Merchant Fleet, first attract our notice.
Its chief industry is the hauling from the hills and shipping from the wharves the redwood lumber, whose abundance has named the town.
The wharves at Brewster were much larger and better cared for than the Province Town landing places; but there were few boats to be seen.
Almost every day Anne and Rose walked to thewharves with Mr. Freeman to hear if there was any news of "The Yankee Hero.
The fine harbor and bay of Newport soon attracted commerce from all nations, which heaped its wharves with riches and made princes and magnates of its merchants--a position they seemed born to sustain.
Fredericksburg was all "a-bustle" at that time with foreign ships lying at the wharves and wagons rumbling along the streets.
In this way inland plantations could send their tobacco to wharves and warehouses on the waterfront for shipment overseas.
It was easy to make a landing in the lower counties of the Neck where the land was low and there were wharves at the plantations.
Ay, on the sacred seas we ne'er shall know They hoist their sails this day by peaceful quays, Great gleaming wharves in the perfect City of God, If she but claim her heritage.
The men employed on wharves and barges are a class apart from the ordinary workman, it always seems to me.
Silver lights dotted the wharves opposite, and in the west, behind the four tall chimneys of the power station, there was yet a smouldering red amidst the almost extinct fires of sunset.
The wharves were pushed further out, great warehouses built, and though it was a fact that fewer people came to seek their fortunes, more brought with them the idea of settling.
And it seemed as if the city was coming nearer and nearer, though it went southward, too, and all along the bay, docks and wharves and warehouses were springing up in a night.
It had stretched up and down the bay, the wharves were crowded with shipping.
Then the wharves were sure to swarm with the mischievous little chaps, all eager to carry out some favorite plan for amusement, in which old Ocean was sure to be engaged as a play-fellow.
Somewhere in the darkness along the wharves a concertina was stumbling uncertainly through the latest success in rag-time melody.
Then they dropped down the river until there were three wharves between them and the Nellis and found a new berth.
Beyond the flakes were the wharves and sheds, the masts of several schooners showing above the roofs.
But we want to get out pretty early and be back here before the folks along the wharves are taking notice.
On one side the quaint old town came tumbling down to the wharves and the dripping seawall, a delightful hodgepodge of weather-stained sheds and whitewashed houses.
He looked at me as though he thought I was crazy and said most of the wharves around there were broken down, but maybe the one I meant was the second one to the north.
All that he had learned on the streets and wharves and roof-tops, all that pitiable experience and dangerous knowledge that had made him a leader and a hero among the thieves and bullies of the river-front he called to his assistance now.
About the wharves of the village itself idle stevedores lounged under dripping roofs, watching the cloud-rack and speculating on the chances of going to work.
Mike always took much interest in the wharves by the side of the river.
When one looks at the crowded rows of steamboats at the Portland wharves now, it is hard to realize that it is only thirty-two years since the first one was launched there.
Then I felt the Helen Mar tugging at her anchor, and the water was going by her like a mill race, and Cuco was gone, and on shore people were running away from the wharves and the river toward the upper town.
I left Greenough in the year '65, and went to New York, and the wharves and ships of East River, and didn't expect it would take me long to get rich.
It was when these supplies were taken from the wharves and placed in the holds of vessels like the Hattie that the trouble began, and men like Captain Beardsley ran all the risk and reaped the lion's share of the profits.
The shipping at the wharves was fired and pandemonium reigned complete for 24 hours.
When the smoke cleared away the scene from the bluff overlooking the wharves was sickening.
Many of them he knew by sight as loafers on the wharves and as troublesome or riotous characters.
He spent the day down on the wharves talking to the fishermen and sailors.
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