How To Use Wharf In A Sentence

This appears to have led to his death after he lost control of a scooter on a bridleway above the Wharfe's steep banks near his home. Jimi Heselden obituary
I don't remember seeing del's recommendation of Alioto's but the wharf is big and we mostly stuck to pier 39. I'm going to be in Oregon mid September doing a little sightseeing along the coast on Highway 101 with my wife.
By the time the sloop's deck was perpendicular, we had unbent the boom-lift from below, made it fast to the wharf, and, with the other end fast nearly to the mast-head, heaved it taut with block and tackle. SMALL-BOAT SAILING
The club is now looking forward to the forthcoming Wharfedale Championships and is hoping to shatter last year's record trophy haul.
These fish prefer shallow water and are commonly found in bays around eelgrass, oil platforms, pilings of wharfs and piers, and in back waters.

Depart the Bay Area for Monterey Bay, visit Fisherman's Wharf and the Cannery Row, made famous by writer John Steinbeck.
However a theatre director who was once worked for the Wharf Theatre in Devizes, which is a member of Sir Ian's Little Theatre Guild, was jailed in 2008 for having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Ropes were cast off and stevedores moved in with bargepoles to keep the hull clear of the wharf.
The Under-18 team went on to be crowned champions and the club's Wharfedale League team was promoted to the Second Division.
Until last year, the port's wharfs were only intended to accommodate bulk cargo which was not transported in containers.
A small number were waiting on the solid rock-filled reach, the wharfinger's office at its head and a stone warehouse blocking the end, where the _Nautilus_ lay with her high-steeved bowsprit pointing outward. Java Head
Water from a beck which feeds into the River Wharfe at Ryther, near Tadcaster, backed up and blocked the main road through the village.
In the organization of this transport the constant and helpful cooperation of the Shipping Board, the railroads, and those in control of warehousing, wharfing, lighterage, and other terminal facilities has been invaluable. World's War Events, Vol. II
The following morning Mr. Pontellier was up in good time to take the rockaway which was to convey him to the steamer at the wharf. The Awakening
As many as three bidders are chasing after one of the biggest landlords in Britain, Canary Wharf.
More than 100 people aired their views on what should happen to a two kilometre stretch of land along the River Wharfe.
Burley-in-Wharfedale based Burley Developments Limited, has applied to build seven apartments and 14 three-storey town houses surrounding a new open courtyard at the site.
She did not notice him until the bows of the punt bumped into the wharf beneath her. THE MAIN CAGES
The bottom level below the bluffs along the riverside is the seat of the river shipping business, and has as well the usual fringe of low quarters; it is paved, and there is a broad public landing fronted by floating docks, wharf-boats, etc. The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado
The boss of a train down there is the conductor del tren; a commuter is a commutador; switch is used both in its American railroad sense and to indicate the electrical device; slip, dock and wharf (the last pronounced guÿ; fay) are in daily use; so is socket (electrical), though it is pronounced sokÿ; ytay; so are poker and many of the terms appertaining to the game. Appendix 2. Non-English Dialects in America. 3. Spanish
Then the River Wharfe at the top of the lane bursts its banks, bringing flood water, mud and misery to the close - knit community.
the big ship wharfed in the evening
Namibia is believed to have offered Ramatex a 20-year tax holiday, free wharfage, free earthworks at the factory site and free electricity infrastructure up to the factory site.
I ran out of the house and took a taxi to the wharf.
It's an attraction in itself to rise early in the morning to watch the enormous luxury liners taxiing into a berth at the wharf near the bauxite terminal.
Quartered at the southern end of the Philadelphia waterfront, Willing operated a countinghouse, warehouse, a retail store, and below those, a wharf, berth to his several square-rigged frigates. Robert Morris
He suddenly understood that no matter what he had thought standing on the wharf, he very much wanted to stay alive. THE LAST TEMPTATION
Up to c. 1700, Britain's ports had been largely natural coastal or riverside sites, sometimes with quays and wharfs for lading, and beaching vessels at low tide.
The first involved suspending a camera from a crane high above Canary Wharf. Times, Sunday Times
The very long jetty was used as a wharf for the area in the days of coastal shipping.
In the end, he came to my landlocked town of Nelson, British Columbia, and we fished for kokanee from the city wharf, sandwiched unromantically between the hotel and the airstrip.
From our offices, we could hear the call of seagulls and the sound of halyards slapping against the masts of sailboats docked alongside the wharf, one of which belonged to Bernie and was available for our use.
She did not notice him until the bows of the punt bumped into the wharf beneath her. THE MAIN CAGES
A holt has been built on the banks of the River Wharfe to encourage the animals to continue using the river.
A friend met me at the Ocean River Sports dock at noon; 30 minutes later, we crossed the runway and bee-lined for Fisherman's Wharf, a klatch of pastel-colored houseboats and floating restaurants on the edge of the Inner Harbour. Victoria, By Sea
From the earliest battles against swamps and unpredictable tides, to the occurrence of fatal wharfside fires, the history of Port Adelaide is infused with misfortune and tragedy.
He said the improvised bomb was planted near one of the gates of the wharf.
It proposed the continued infilling of the southeastern shore for industrial land and wharfage.
If an application to secure a full-time licence is successful, organisers of Wharfedale FM plan to develop it along the lines of the old pirate radio stations.
The River Wharfe was close to bursting its banks at several points.
The Don Eusebio crunched into the Zamboanga wharf at noon, four hours behind schedule.
A room at the Marriott Fisherman's Wharf can run you up to $369.
The club wants to create a protective ‘bund’ or embankment barrier on a grassed riverbank area close to stepping stones on the River Wharfe.
Indeed, the cynical may argue that in winning each of their last four games by less than a single score and an aggregate of a mere 14 points, Wharfedale are struggling at the top!
He said something to the helmsman, and the boat veered towards a narrow wharf where a couple of launches were moored. THE LAST TEMPTATION
Then there was a clamorous demand for “wharfage,” and the hackman charged half a dollar for taking me a quarter of a mile. The Englishwoman in America
As Spike uttered this order, his foot was on the plank-sheer of the bulwarks, in the act of passing to the wharf again. Jack Tier
A ship inside the backlot is a near full-sized model of the Manuia berthed at nearby Miramar wharf.
Yarmouth has been fortunate over its history to be located on a good harbour that continues to provide wharfage for ships plying waters off the Nova Scotia coast.
Three fides confift of the Exchange and the public offices; the fourth is formed by the Tagus, which is here edged by an extenfive and noble wharf, built of coarfe marble. Almada hill: an epistle from Lisbon
Moored alongside the wharf in the Yarra River in Melbourne, the ‘Nella Dan’ looked far too small to withstand the buffeting that was likely in the Southern Ocean.
Evidence of the place importance remains, with loading bays, a gauging dock, wharf buildings and the wharfinger's house still in existence.
A lanky man, with grizzled brows and untrimmed beard, got up slowly from the stringpiece of the wharf and slouched forward to meet Janice Day. Janice Day at Poketown
He suddenly understood that no matter what he had thought standing on the wharf, he very much wanted to stay alive. THE LAST TEMPTATION
There are already rumours of anglers catching barbel and carp well downstream of the tidal limits of the Ouse and Wharfe.
We easily transformed the spelling into "gondola," and in fancy were afloat on Venetian waters, under some overhanging balcony, perhaps at the very Palace of the Doges, -- willingly blind to the reality of a mudscow leaning against some rickety wharf posts, covered with barnacles. A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)
Players can also build custom pirate-themed houses with the new objects that are included in Barnacle Bay, such as porthole doors and windows, wharf and stone fences, and more! IGN PC
It is also one of the top attractions for the flocks of visitors who visit the Wharfedale stately home and its extensive estate and grounds.
We travelled along the Wharfe into the Dale, that takes its name from the river, which reaches from York about 20 miles, enlivened almoft all the way with gentlemens feats at a little diftance from each other; and left Otley-cheven, on the fouth fide of the river, a fmall market - town, no otherwife of note than for its fituation, which is under a large craggy cliff. A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ...
First, that all marchants of the sayd kingdomes and countreys may come into our kingdome of England, and any where else into our dominion with their marchandises whatsoeuer safely and securely vnder our defence and protection without paying wharfage, pontage, or pannage. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Three ships, six fishing boats and a filthy dredger stood along the busy wharf where the river flowed into the firth. A Small Death in the Great Glen
To them Montreal is a convenient sea-wharfing spot to conduct big business; otherwise a French Canadian city and so, hopeless. The Masques of Ottawa
Signaling with one long shrill of his whistle followed by one short blast, he waits for an echo from the harbormaster, then comes about and eases his boat against the wharf of a two-story shed.
The ship was wharfed
As logs are lashed, he lists the many benefits to Astoria of bringing in a log exporter, including dozens of $40-an-hour stevedore jobs filled with every shipload, and some $100,000 in wharfing fees each month. Log Exports Hammer Lumber Mills
The Telephone Tree appears in the wonderful oral history of the wharfies, "Under the Hook", by Tom Hills (a wharfie) and Wendy Lowenstein, originally published in 1982 but now reprinted in an expanded form to cover the The Telephone Tree
He said something to the helmsman, and the boat veered towards a narrow wharf where a couple of launches were moored. THE LAST TEMPTATION
Grayling are starting to shoal on the rivers Eden and Wharfe with the rise in water levels and drop in water temperature after the rain.
Additional sailing flats were brought on to the river, wharfage was leased, and during the remaining months of 1827 some traffic that normally went by canal was sent coastwise.
The TWA also known as the "Dog Licence Act", or the "Dog Collar Act" allowed for the dismissal of the wharfie work force, and their replacement by untrained, non-union workers, each of whom needed only to purchase a licence for one shilling to work on the wharves. The Pig-Iron Song
The merchants of Truro formerly used it for the place of lading and unlading their ships, as the merchants of Exeter did at Topsham; and this is the more probable in that, as above, the wharfage of those landing-places is still the property of the corporation of From London to Land's End
They were connected to the Wharf by long, often slippery metal gangplanks, which could be very steep when the tide went out and hazardous in the rain.
He was a qualified referee and officiated in the former Wharfedale League and the Red Triangle League.
First, my temper was tried by the almost interminable journey, in the noisy and comfortless vehicle which they call a cab, from the river-wharf to the west-end of London, where Marmaduke lives. Little Novels
Low tide on a recent morning at Traeth Coch, or Red Wharf Bay, saw yachts high and dry on chocks as seabirds swirled below the radiant cloudlets. Country diary: Anglesey
There was the usual crowd of loafers waiting for the boat -- all perched along the stringpiece of the wharf. Janice Day at Poketown
But La Fayette, as usual, did not hesitate between the word and the deed -- he was already on the wharf, striding the last few yards to stand before Bonaparte and receive his salute. He Don't Know Him
The official wharfs of such departments of customs, frontier defense and public security may not engage in port business operations.
The Truro-men also receive several duties collected in Falmouth, particularly wharfage for the merchandises landed or shipped off; but let these advantages be what they will, the town of Falmouth has gotten the trade — at least, the best part of it — from the other, which is chiefly owing to the situation. From London to Land's End
There will be many complaints about the noise, danger and disturbance yet again of construction work traffic impinging on the sleepy area nestling by a perfect spot on the River Wharfe.
Like Winnie, the residents of the 16 houses and three farms on Castley Lane, Pool-in-Wharfedale, near Otley, would not choose to live anywhere else.
For years, a character known as The Bushman has sat on Fishermen's 'Wharf in San Francisco and scared people for their spare change. CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2004
Close to an international wharf, the hotel changed some guestrooms for young travellers, known as the youth hostel.
As we waited in the queue on the wharf, my first impression was of the tremendous amount of rope involved in supporting the rigging and in controlling the set of the sails.
As soon as the ship was close to the wharf, he jumped from the boat to the pier.
Late on the twilit Alaskan summer night, she confronted him on the Juneau Company wharf.
Despite the TSC's recommendation against volume discounts, the final 1983 tariff did introduce wharfage volume discounts-the more containers per vessel that call at the ports, the greater the discount possible.
Dame Nellie Melba met them at the wharf, yoo-hooing at the top of her substantial voice and bustling the new arrivals off the ship, ignoring the officials who tried to forbid her.
Canary Wharf towers above the Dockland area of London.
All the timber used, including the matchstick screens of the garage and the double-height oriel above, is recycled jarrah - a tough Australian hardwood - some of it sourced from an old wharf from the port of Fremantle in Western Australia.
He struts with imperial stride to the wharf and down center stage.
From the proceeds of a year on Broadway as Salieri in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, he bought a riverside terraced house in Limehouse, within sight of both Canary Wharf and Tower Bridge.
Lion Wharf Road seemed to offer a route to the water's edge, but a brown heritage signpost said there was no through route and I couldn't see how to get on to the disobliging path anyway. Running London (A Marathon Endeavour): Leg 3 - Hounslow West to Kew Gardens
As I understand it, Mr. Murren," he said, as they stood on the wharf together, waiting for an approaching boat, "the government looks on the business of growing sponges much as it does on the growing of wheat or any other form of farming, only it is called aquiculture instead of agriculture. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries
A traditional Wharfedale community is set to increase by a third due to major planned housing developments.
The Don Eusebio crunched into the Zamboanga wharf at noon, four hours behind schedule.
Granted, gentrification has improved much of the burg, but be that as it may, whether the locals like it or not, Fisherman's wharf is an essential tourist trap. Eric Lurio: Essential Tourist Traps, Part Four: Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco (PHOTOS)
She lay long hours by the wharf-boats of busy towns, exchanging one cargo for another, in that anarchic fetching and carrying which we call commerce, and which we drolly suppose to be governed by laws. Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)
Wharfedale is clearly one of the hot-spots in terms of producing excellent orienteers.
The captain trusted me to berth the ship at the wharf.
Long bright days encouraged work on the crumbling wharf, restoration of deteriorating residences, and a bathhouse which Tashakawa and Shiro designed and began to construct.
Traders in Canary Wharf were left twiddling their thumbs as the administrators arrived. Times, Sunday Times
The police launch slowed at the harbor entrance, then angled toward the Sham Shui Po wharf.
The base is made from the stone remains of a defunct wolfram mine and its wharf.
Like the workboats at the fishermen's wharf, the bay boats needed the same care.
Mr Lee said the ARC and Government would consult with the Historic Places Trust over the two wharf sheds. NZ On Screen
After a few minutes of rowing she docked the boat at a small wharf.
Hundreds of Wharfedale supporters will be heading to Harrogate tomorrow hoping their nearest rivals are in clement mood.
Disabled and able-bodied children will be able to play side by side at the pioneering inclusive playground at Wharfemeadows Park in Otley.
From the wharf at Selby's we watched with careless interest the lubberly manoeuvre performed of bringing the yacht to anchor, and the equally lubberly manoeuvre of sending the small boat ashore. The King of the Greeks
Taking the 200,000 dwt Ore Wharf of Fangcheng Port as an example, this paper analyzes how to optimize the design for the bucket wheel stacker-reclaimer′s rail foundation.
I wonder if his buddies at the wharf called the lovelorn fisherman “Mr. Baiter” behind his back. GUIDO BEACH: STALKER EDITION
He suddenly understood that no matter what he had thought standing on the wharf, he very much wanted to stay alive. THE LAST TEMPTATION
"But if I'm not mistaken, I think this Saturday we have the guy that reffed us down in Lydney and over in Wharfedale, and that concerns me."
I met him at the official opening of a new dockland wharf where the drinks flowed freely.
The lat time the pirates of the dark stronghold had carried fire and sword to a dozen wharfed ships. Rogue Of Gor
This erroneous mode of wharfing seems to have been introduced when im - mediate interest only was considered, and without an anticipa - tion of the growth and population to which the towns were destined to arrive. Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital: Containing Notes and Correspondence exchanged between Jefferson, Washington, L'Enfant, Ellicott, Hallett, Thornton, Latrobe, the Commissioners, and others
She did not notice him until the bows of the punt bumped into the wharf beneath her. THE MAIN CAGES
The porter loaded their bags onto cart and began to lead them down the wharf.
The wharf was a few blocks down on their right; Dannors flat was to the left, past the tavern and over the footbridge. A CALL TO DARKNESS
Wharf the mouth of the river
Pickford's and Chaplin & Home, who were the two big ‘wharfingers’ and railway carriers, worked as agents for a number of railways, especially until the mid-18 70s.
A flutey voice, like some birds I've listened to," returned the girl ruminantly, "but with something a bit odd and different in her speech that made us think her an American, and Hope even spoke of it; but just then the carriage came to take us to the wharf, and she forgot to answer. All Aboard A Story for Girls
The development comes after the government mulled over the idea of decentralising tourist activities at the Gateway of India by moving the entry points to various wharfs in the city. Daily News & Analysis
If you make to san fran (hwy 101); fisherman's wharf is a must stop for good eats. I'm going to be in Oregon mid September doing a little sightseeing along the coast on Highway 101 with my wife.
And this I likewise might confirm of two elms, planted by me about 35 years since; which being little bigger than walking-staves, and set on the very brink of a ditch or narrow channel (not always full of water) wharfed with a wall of a brick and half in thickness, (to keep the bank from falling in) are since grown to goodly and equally spreading trees of near two foot diameter, solid timber, and of stature proportionable. Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
Farther along the wharf we find a small fleet of fishing boats bobbing in a slick of diesel, their grizzled crews eyeing us suspiciously.
We were taking the best precautions we could, but when it came into the Wharfedale valley we were not very hopeful.
She goes from being a reader who can listen, for example, to the ambiguities in the Wharfinger play.
Among the victims was the Skipton to Ilkley line and about 80 stations and halts in the Aire and Wharfe valleys and in the Bradford area.
Canary Wharf, an icon of modern capitalism, is now a totem of state-funded corporatism.
The following year, the Lascar crew of the Australia were locked in a shed on a Melbourne wharf under guard until they too were shipped out.
Since the arrival of container ships in the 1960s, with their need for giant cranes and open acres of wharfage, the 43 deepwater "finger piers" of San Francisco's northeastern waterfront have largely become an anachronism. Free to Focus on the Pictures Inside
He bought his first tractor in 1949 and has sold at wholesale markets since he was 16 and trucking lettuce to the old Fisherman's Wharf.
With only enough space for one foot on each stone, it takes a while to negotiate the stepping stones across the Wharfe at Bolton Abbey.
Among the other news which did manage to squeeze its way into the paper was a report of heavy falls of snow in Wharfedale.
Apart from a few forays into Wharfedale territory, which were defended with relative ease, the remainder of the first half was played out in the Moortown half.
Today, however, we're settling for a short stint off the edge of an Auckland wharf.
Above Abadan, which is just a cluster of circular tanks, slender chimneys and square houses on the arid plain, with a mass of barges lining the numerous wharfs, we passed Mohammerah. In Mesopotamia
And the valley of the River Wharfe takes some beating.
Finally he grabbed him by the collar, and with a spasmodic effort tipped him off the wharf into the canal.
We were talking it over one night over beers and clam linguine at a place in the old cannery across the road from Fisherman's Wharf. BETTER THAN THIS
There they found two boats tied up alongside the wharf, waiting to unload their cargo of dolphin corpses.
Former wharfie Mr Stubbs, 72, has been on a pension for several years. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
The police launch slowed at the harbor entrance, then angled toward the Sham Shui Po wharf.
You can still see the piles of the original wharf where the goods were unloaded.
Morning , Sightseeing tour of Golden Gate Bridge , Fisherman Wharf , Lombard Street, Palace of fine Art, etc.
She was one of a group who rented the redbrick premises in Wharf Street as a local contribution to preparations for protests against the Gleneagles G8 summit in 2005. Second police officer to infiltrate environmental activists unmasked
Passing the town-wharf laggingly like the maimed thing she was, limping nearer and nearer the spot whence she had set out three-quarters of an hour before, Mr. Carstairs's _Cypriani_ slowed down at an abandoned private landing -- the same one by which Peter's trunk had been conveyed ashore that morning -- and ran out her stairs. Captivating Mary Carstairs
The forest of streamers from the wharf to the ship's rail slowly broke as the vessel gained momentum.
He claimed the lighting and netting would ruin residents' views of Canary Wharf, and that nature groups believed owls nesting nearby would disappear.
He persisted in these tactics for several years despite being resisted actively by the other harvesters and ostracized on the wharf and in the community.
Australia's waterside workers (dockers, longshoremen) had a big defeat a few years ago when both business and government got tough on their overmanning practices and cut the wharf workforce drastically.
He listened to his heavy tread as he walked down the wharf.
Wharfedale churches and business have been holding their own collections and charity shops have also witnessed incredible local generosity.
At some point in the night I apparently wharfed up a cat while sleeping. Wilberteets Diary Entry
Morning , Sightseeing tour of Golden Gate Bridge , Fisherman Wharf , Lombard Street, Palace of fine Art, etc.
He discovered the otter droppings - or spraint, to use the technical term - while checking the site destined to become Grays Wharf, a riverside office development.
The 13 coal merchants and some of the 12 corn and seed merchants no doubt operated from the wharf.
Canary Wharf said its net value per share increased from £5.18 to £6.78 in the year to June.
Struan was gauging the distance from the wharf to China Cloud and to the eastmost thunderclouds. Tai-Pan
Having been brought up hearing nothing about wharfies save how they loafed around in the intervals between striking and stealing cargo, I got a rude shock when the task began.
At age 60, he swam from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf, handcuffed, shackled, and towing a 1,000-pound boat.
Workers back then were beings with blue collars, drivers or wharfies or factory hands.
Bolton Abbey is perhaps Wharfedale's most famous landmark, however, strictly speaking this name relates only to the attractive village adjacent to the ruins of Bolton Priory.
Besides the fact that I know of at least one current national tabloid editor (and many Canary Wharf executives) who has enjoyed a toot in my presence, it's the point that his readers are doing it that is bothering me.
Many of those present headed for individual reunion locations before regathering that night at Wharf 8 for the Sunset presentation by the RAN Band.
Quartered at the southern end of the Philadelphia waterfront, Willing operated a countinghouse, warehouse, a retail store, and below those, a wharf, berth to his several square-rigged frigates. Robert Morris
There is no quay, the canoe must act gondola; the wharf is a mere platform with steps, and in places the filthy drains are not dry even at this season. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
Both were presidents of the Upper Wharfedale Field Society and involved in vernacular architecture.
The tower now stands out, loud and proud, flanked by two green open parks and the colourful wharf, with a riverside walk guiding amblers up to its refurbished doors.
In such circumstances they agreed that they would raise an appropriate purchase order for them to work directly for Canary Wharf if that was an agreeable way forward.
The conductor sold me the ticket on the train and I got off at Burley in Wharfedale with a load of other people, all dressed in suits as I was.
By 1900, Cardiff was exporting 5 million tons of coal annually from more than 14 miles of seething dockside wharfage. Storyteller
Follow the riverside path straight on across fields to reach a road just to the right of Bolton Bridge across the River Wharfe.
April 2009: Both titles relocate from Canary Wharf to the Press Gazette Latest News
Twenty non-standard containers, all having their back doors sealed, were found either on board or loaded on the 20 trucks waiting at the wharf.
_ In nautical Spanish _prois_ or _proiza_ is a breastfast or headfast, that is a large cable for fastening a ship to a wharf or another ship. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503
The company had been displaced over the summer when the City Council refused to grant the Wine Bar on Wharf Street an entertainment license due to the so-called dispersal ordinance which prohibits venues within 100 feet of one another from receiving an entertainment license. BroadwayWorld.com Blogs Stories
In fact he supported the communists in Vietnam and the rest of Indo-China, and used his position in the ranks of the wharfies to help undermine the morale of the Australian troops fighting there.
Following the demise of the canal, the old wharf buildings found a new use as hay barns for the adjoining farm.
Up to c. 1700, Britain's ports had been largely natural coastal or riverside sites, sometimes with quays and wharfs for lading, and beaching vessels at low tide.
The landlubbers gathered at Gunwharf Quay and stepped aboard, nervously scanning the bright sky.
I have watched the river Wharfe and I am concerned about the number of houses going up in the area and the increased abstraction of water.
In the 1880 census they identified themselves as sailors, shipbuilders, ship carpenters, teamsters, wharfingers, inspectors of customs, spar makers, seamen, and sea captains.
As lunchtime neared, we moved the interview down to a seafood restaurant on Stearn's Wharf.
He added that farmers' anxieties had been increasing in Ryedale following the recent new cases in Wharfedale.
Victoria Wharf. is one of the few sites on the Greenwich riverside which is in not owned by Morden College. Bessemer in Greenwich
David Hird won first prize in the Wharfedale Audi Young Designer of the Year competition after designing a quick-release boat rigger attachment for rowing boats.
That Wharfingers ihouldbe Uabto for plunderage of goods in the warehoufcs under their charge y (which is known to be very extenfiv. e at prefent;) and that fiich Wharfingers a»nd 'Warehoufe-men ffiould fee that all ffigar calks are flowed upon their bulge, and not upon their ends, as at prefent, to prevent drainage. A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and ...
On seeing me, Maurice changed direction and went along the wharf instead.
Wharfedale started the second-half the strongest, and gave Ilkley a few frights early on but determined defence work kept them at bay.
Then in the evening we strolled over Tower Bridge and drank cold beers by the river at Butlers' Wharf.
Wharfedale had chance to go ahead with a penalty but the kick was wide of the posts.
York matched Wharfedale until the last five minutes when they notched a decisive try.
Farther along the wharf we find a small fleet of fishing boats bobbing in a slick of diesel, their grizzled crews eyeing us suspiciously.
Swear at the pollies, remembering how they were short changed by the government in WW2 - especially the infamous wharfie strike re ammunitions for the troops. Cheeseburger Gothic » Anzac Day
Of course, for the New Year's Eve bout to go ahead, Trout must first beat Melbourne wharfie Frank LoPorto in Texas on November 11. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
It's in Gabriel's Wharf which is just a swanked up name for what is, in essence, just a street with some shops full of artsy fartsy froo froo.
Paddy Kenneally (1916-2009) quit his job as a wharfie the day Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in Undefined

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