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  • Piecemeal expansion of the harbor-side victualing station at Table Bay slowly transformed a small but crucial outpost of the Dutch East India Company into a settler colony.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • He made one phone call and, an hour later, she had ten, one pound bags delivered to her harbor-side San Pedro office.

    Seventy-two Hours or Less 2010

  • That night we had grilled swordfish in Barnstable with good friends in their tiny, almost infinitesimal harbor-side cottage.

    DesignerBlog Will 2006

  • That night we had grilled swordfish in Barnstable with good friends in their tiny, almost infinitesimal harbor-side cottage.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Will 2006

  • The bear belched, drawing an appreciative look from the other customers of the harbor-side bistro.

    The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980

  • My father's study, as I entered it on an April morning in 1809, to learn his decision regarding a matter that was to determine the course of all my life, was dim and spacious and far removed from the bustle and clamor of the harbor-side.

    The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

  • He agreed with us that both the Northern Harbor and Ostia were certain to be swarming with spies and secret-service agents and informers: so, for that matter, was the harbor-side of Rome along the Tiber: but Rome, being many times as large as Ostia, was likely to be proportionately easier to hide in.

    Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900

  • Yes, though the cotton brought out to the harbor-side was now fifteen thousand bales and with its blazing made a show as if all the town were afire.

    Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884

  • Nan wished that she dared to go away for a long walk; it was a pity she had not told her aunt of a wish to see something of the town and of the harbor-side that afternoon, but it would certainly be a little strange if she were to disappear, and very likely the long nap would soon come to an end.

    A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

  • The air was fresh, and it was so pleasant on the wharf that the captain paced to and fro several times, while he pointed out different objects of interest along the harbor-side, and tapped the rusty anchor and the hawsers with his walking-stick as he went by.

    A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

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