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Wharfs and jetties lapped at it like concrete tongues.
Spin 2005
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Now Butter pretended to give Commissions to officers under him to attend the Wharfs and Keys of the Port and to examine all Goods imported and exported, and to stop the same, and report to him if illegal, or
John Adams diary 12, 30 December 1765 - 20 January 1766 1961
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Rivers, Harbours, Creeks, and up to the very Wharfs on all the northern Coast of
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The Wharfs, Keys, Docks, etc. near the River Thames, of water-carriage to several Cities, Towns, etc. The Rates of Watermen, Porters of all kinds and Carmen.
The Parish Clerk 1892
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Wharfs for the use of ships and canal boats will also be constructed on this frontage.
The Story of Electricity John Munro 1889
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Conserwaters, and manage the River theirselves; and then, as they think as them little trifles ain't quite enuff for 'em, they are a going to arsk to be aloud to take charge of all the Docks and Wharfs on the
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 7, 1893 Various 1876
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Wharfs, -- and we were seven weeks at Sea before we fell in with a trade-wind, and then setting every Rag we could hoist, went gaily before that Favourable breeze, and so cast anchor at Port Royal in the island of Jamaica.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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We can also clear out the Channel so as to bring eleven and twelve feet water up to the Wharfs of the City, while at present we have but six and one-half feet water in the Channel at high tide.
House Journal--10th Sess. A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Florida, at Its Tenth Session, Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Tallahassee, on Monday, November 26, 1860. Florida. General Assembly. House of Representatives 1861
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In the A.M. transported the ship over to Onrust, alongside one of the Carreening Wharfs.
Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World James Cook 1753
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Those Wharehouse Wharfs on Clink Street with its foreshore must be the most photographed part of the River Thames, it is definitely a favourite with us tourists.
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