Seeing one of the boats approaching, he stepped back off the piles and onto a stringpiece, or beam, that was wide enough to get a footing and where, he supposed, he would be clear of the piles should they be forced against the beam by the docking boat. ❋ David McCullough (1972)
When she rose up from where she had been sitting and went along the shaking stringpiece of the dock, her back was still toward the shore. ❋ Helen Beecher Long (N/A)
The starboard quarter grated against the piling, and the open stern windows overhung the stringpiece for a moment. ❋ Aylward Edward Dingle (N/A)
The bridge had no protection along the side save a simple stringpiece of timber. ❋ Austin Bidwell (N/A)
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. ❋ Helen Beecher Long (N/A)
There was the usual crowd of loafers waiting for the boat -- all perched along the stringpiece of the wharf. ❋ Helen Beecher Long (N/A)
The decoration is all piled on the front, as elaborate a design, often, as Palladio ever dreamt of, but at the side, every cornice and stringpiece stops as short as if it had been sawn off, and the whole side is a flat blank piece of brickwork. ❋ Various (N/A)
Betty laid the Gem alongside the stringpiece, and Grace and Mollie, leaping out, soon had the boat fast. ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)
"She is all that," said the young person on the stringpiece of the dock, "and more too.' ❋ Unknown (1907)
"I wish we were going off with her—maybe to Singapore or Nagasaki," Carl said, slipping his arm through hers, as they balanced on the stringpiece of the wharf, sniffing like deer at the breeze, which for a moment seemed to bear, from distant burgeoning woods, a shadowy hint of burning leaves—the perfume of spring and autumn, the eternal wander-call. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
"Come on, jump in." I yells, and all hands piled in, and we shoved off; all in one motion almost, and by the time Argand's crowd got to the stringpiece we were a vessel length away, and pulling like homeward bound. ❋ Unknown (1912)
The swimmers were overboard in the cool river with the first shadows of night; the Quartermaster, so old that he dyed his hair for fear he'd be superannuated, lowered his lean body hand over hand down a rope and sat by the hour on a stringpiece of the dock, with the water laving his hairy and tattooed old breast. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
"Gwan, ye little devils!" said the Quartermaster, clutching the stringpiece and looking about in the gloom for a weapon. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
They found the Quartermaster on a stringpiece immersed to the neck and smoking his pipe, and surrounded him -- four small, shouting imps, floating barrels with splashing hands and kicking feet. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
The stringpiece and ground logs which Bonaparte had provided were, according to my ideas, entirely inadequate, and I sent four hands to an island near by to cut larger, heavier pieces. ❋ Unknown (1914)
While talking he had gone across the gap, stepping lightly upon a stringpiece probably a foot wide, and proceeding over the ties. ❋ Julian Street (1913)
He hove his suit-case aboard, made a one-handed vault from dock to deck (and from stringpiece to rail was high as his shoulder), and when he landed on deck it was like a cat on his toes; and like a cat he was off and away, suit-case in hand, while those of the crew who had only seen him land were still wondering where he dropped from. ❋ Unknown (1912)
He looked at the lake, where there was no longer sign or sound of the canoe, and he looked at Miss Flossy, who sat calm, self-confident, and careless on the stringpiece of the dock. ❋ Unknown (1907)
A girl was sitting on the stringpiece of the dock. ❋ Unknown (1907)
