By ten o'clock a nondescript youth arrived on foot, carrying a suit-case, which was turned over to me a few minutes later by the wharfinger. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Mr. Winkle is a wharfinger, Sir, at the canal, sir. ❋ Unknown (2007)
My father, then some time deceased, had been a wharfinger at ❋ Unknown (2004)
I asked the wharfinger if he knew her, but he had never seen her before. ❋ Melvin Linwood Severy (N/A)
A slow, sonorous voice was proclaiming aloud that victory had been adjudged to Stephan Kiesslinger, born in the burg of Antwerp, son of a wharfinger in that town. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
I told him the tale of my adventures, gave him the name of the schooner to which I belonged, the wharf at which she was lying, and also of the wharfinger, one of his intimate acquaintances, who had directed me to his office. ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)
The boats to be kept tight; carry four oars, one mast and sail; boatmen to treat passengers civilly; to give notice half an hour before they depart, by bell ringing; not to stop more than ten minutes by the way, nor to go alongside a vessel, without acquainting the wharfinger; and the proprietors to keep entry-books, under the penalty of forfeiting the bond and recognizances entered into at the time their license was granted. ❋ David Dickinson Mann (N/A)
And all timber exported, to be paid for to Orphans 3L. per 1000 feet solid; returns of all embarked to be made to the wharfinger, under the penalty of 5L. for each neglect. ❋ David Dickinson Mann (N/A)
He received information from the wharfinger of the place of business and position of my relative; and on the following afternoon, after making myself look as respectable as possible, I proceeded, with ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)
Mary was her name in our Lord, Lovel that of her father in the flesh, a respectable wharfinger of Bankside. ❋ Maurice Henry Hewlett (N/A)
Good Master Lovel the wharfinger neither knew his daughter nor his father's name in this long-drawn compound of liquids; he was troubled, very doubtful, anxious for Gregory Drax; but all Lombardy and the Emilian March came to know it in time. ❋ Maurice Henry Hewlett (N/A)
Tell the wharfinger to tell him to throw a few clothes into a suit case -- that he's to go to Papeete on mighty important business -- and to meet me at the head of Greenwich Street Dock at one-twenty, without fail, for his orders and his money. ❋ Unknown (1918)
Most of it came down after five o'clock in the afternoon after the wharfinger had left the dock, and as nothing but a disordered brain would have suspected the steamer _Maggie_ of an attempt to break the neutrality laws, the entire cargo was gotten aboard safely and without a jot of suspicion attaching to the vessel. ❋ Gordon [Illustrator] Grant (1918)
With the assistance of the wharfinger an automobile was summoned, and in due course the members of the syndicate found themselves ensconced in a fashionable suite in San Francisco's most fashionable hotel. ❋ Gordon [Illustrator] Grant (1918)
The wharfinger saluted them, William Ammidon joined his wife, and beyond she could see James Saltonstone conversing with the Surveyor of the Port. ❋ Joseph Hergesheimer (1917)
By ten o'clock a nondescript youth arrived on foot, carrying a suit - case, which was turned over to me a few minutes later by the wharfinger. ❋ Unknown (1914)
Mr. Winkle is a wharfinger, sir, at the canal, sir. ❋ Bertram Waldrom Matz (1895)
When he came back from America -- where he went from a lad's love of adventure -- he made a good marriage from a monetary point of view; married a wharf on the Thames, in fact, somewhere Limehouse way, and settled down as a wharfinger. ❋ Florence Warden (1893)
A slow, sonorous voice was proclaiming aloud that victory had been adjudged to Stephen Kiesslinger, born in the burgh of Antwerp, son of a wharfinger in that town. ❋ Unknown (1891)
