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Steamboat leaves wharf-twenty-two feet out in stream, when_ JENKINS _reaches string-piece.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870 Various

There were decrepit boats drawn up on the narrow beach; there were several decaying shacks bordering on the dock itself; and along the string-piece of the wharf roosted a row of "humans" that were the opposite of ornamental.

Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long

A few youthful couples, boy by girl and girl by boy, sat on the string-piece and whispered, or bandied fun with those other lovers who patrolled the flooring of the wharf.

Different Girls Various

They were there in groups, some seated on the string-piece with babes in arms or with perambulators before them, and others, facing these, standing and joining in the gossip, and swaying to and fro to soothe their little ones.

Different Girls Various

At the far end of the pier some young men and women waltzed, while a lad on the string-piece played for them on his mouth-organ.

Different Girls Various

For there was no craft tied to the string-piece, where he had fastened his motor-boat.

Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat, or, the Rivals of Lake Carlopa Victor [pseud.] Appleton

"Oh, we've really started!" cried Sue, as she saw the open water between the rail and the string-piece of the wharf.

Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove Laura Lee Hope

Italian had come to the string-piece, and was watching the embarkation.

Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Albert Walter Tolman

I would at any time have freely given ten cents for the privilege of overhauling old broad-beam's carpet-bag, which he always placed before him on the string-piece, with a view, I suppose, of frustrating anything like a guerrilla plunder-movement upon his widely extended rear.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

The wharf to which our couple strolled was a mere flooring above the water, edged with a stout string-piece, which formed a bench for the mothers.

Different Girls Various