Wharfs

It certainly is the occasion of much over-speculation; but if the parties who speculate are ruined, provided the money has been laid out, as it usually is in America, upon real property -- such as wharfs, houses, etcetera. -- a new country becomes a gainer, as the improvements are made and remain, although they fall into other hands. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

But I did not go in the Beaver, which ship "wharfs" some two or three miles further ahead, at Holland River Landing, commonly called "the Landing," par excellence. ❋ Richard Henry Bonnycastle (1819)

The south branch of the Chicago River would carry barge traffic, but with plenty of places for “delightful loitering” since the banks were modeled on Parisian quais, with streets overlooking lower-level wharfs. ❋ Witold Rybczynski (2010)

She has worked as a store manager, a bank-teller, and as a clerk in a company that fixes bridges, wharfs, and piers, continuing to write poetry on the side. ❋ Jewish Women's Archive (2010)

The backs of the factories opened onto great stone wharfs–loading docks where for generations human beings were stuffed into the holds of ships and dispatched to Cuba, Brazil, and the United States. ❋ BILL FLANAGAN (2010)

A dozen villages pass in the night, card parlors, tumbledown hotels, the skiffs of fishermen, lamps swinging above wharfs like wayward stars. ❋ Anthony Doerr (2010)

Brownstones popped up after the Civil War, and the bay, home to railroad piers and wharfs, was filled in and developed by the end of the 1860s, according to the Turtle Bay Association. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The proper plaintiffs include the private individuals whose beaches and wharfs have been blackened by the oil spill. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Small houses occupied the cusp of land overlooking swamplands and the harbor wharfs. ❋ Malla Nunn (2010)

Teacher Ke asks her to carry his letters to the wharfs and see if passing boats will take them to another village to mail them. ❋ Anthony Doerr (2010)

The villagers are currently setting up a tent camp along the rocky shore line where the Navy intends to pour concrete to cover the rocks and tiny marine life to make their wharfs where the Aegis destroyers will be homeported. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“[To hell with that] [bra], [I’m] wharfing it!” “If you’re wharfing, I’m wharfing too.” ❋ Nauti In Newport (2021)

I'm about to [wharf]! ❋ EMRAT (2003)

she is a [wharf], everyone [ported] on her before, don't [you know]? ❋ Lursey (2009)

Girl: eww what is that [mangy] looking thing? Guy: Its a fuckin Wharf Cat [bub] Girl: [oh dear god] ❋ Lyfe 268 192 (2007)

"[Oh dear God], look at that creature at the end of the bar. Is that a girl or a boy? Is that thing even human? I can't believe how wharf [she/it] is!" "Stop staring at her/it! It's rude to stare!" "I can't help it. She is possibly one of the most disgusting human beings alive! I would rather kiss a shitty [dog's ass]. I think I'm going to vomit." ❋ Daddy John (2007)

"Dude, where's [Simon]?" "He's [wharfing] in [the toilet]" ❋ Tea-jjj (2013)

[Ya know] who [has it] the worst? The [whore] dwarfs--wharfs! ❋ Still_trippin' (2006)

You should have seen this [nasty bitch] [dawg]! [You better] believe I gave her a Purdy's Wharf! ❋ Barfy (2005)

You can find the [Wharf] Rats congregating where the yellow [balloons] are during [intermission]. ❋ Woody Thomas (2006)

Gary went to [Long Wharf] tonight looking for a romantic encounter with a random [patron] of the area. Gary was hoping to find a nice [Twink] to spend the evening with. ❋ Kingbling203 (2010)