chain-pier

The chain-pier, as every body knows, runs intrepidly into the sea, which sometimes, in fine weather, bathes its feet with laughing wavelets, and anon, on stormy days, dashes over its sides with roaring foam.

The Newcomes 2006

It consists entirely of hotels, boarding-houses, and bathing-machines, with a pavilion and a chain-pier.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841 Various

The water is shallow, the surf does not extend very far from the beach, and there seems really no reason why a chain-pier should not be erected, which might answer not only for the accommodation of passengers, but for the transit of goods to and from the shore.

The Lieutenant and Commander Hall, Basil, 1788-1844 1862

He asked her to dance, and she had said yes, all on a sudden, without thinking, and then she fancied he would go away; she begged him not to come again, but whenever she went out on the chain-pier before breakfast, there he was.

The Young Step-Mother Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

It is matter of considerable surprise to every one who has seen how well the chain-pier at Brighton stands the worst weather, that no similar work has been devised at Madras.

The Lieutenant and Commander Hall, Basil, 1788-1844 1862

We have a beautiful bay-windowed sitting-room here, fronting the sea, but I have seen nothing of B. 's brother who was to have shown me the lions, and my notions of the place are consequently somewhat confined: being limited to the pavilion, the chain-pier, and the sea.

The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844

Who is going to sit three weary hours at the Haymarket, bored by the assumed plausibility of the actor, when the real, the actual, the positive thing that he so poorly simulates is to be met on the railroad, at the station, in the club, on the chain-pier, or the penny steamer?

Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Charles James Lever 1839

The chain-pier, as every body knows, runs intrepidly into the sea, which sometimes, in fine weather, bathes its feet with laughing wavelets, and anon, on stormy days, dashes over its sides with roaring foam.

The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

This conceit amused the countess exceedingly, and was followed by many other equally strange expressions and conjectures; among which, Crony contrived to persuade him that great amusement was to be derived in bobbing for mackerel and turbot with the line: a pleasure combining so much of profit in expectancy that the old citizen was, at last, induced to admit the utility of the chain-pier.

The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828

"O, then I suppose," said the speaker, "they have finished the projected chain-pier from Dover to Calais."

The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828