landing-places

It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats.

Sole Music 2010

The company rejoiced in me with joy exceeding and the ceased not from pleasure and delight, whilst anon I sang and anon the damsel, till we came to one of the landing-places, where the vessel moored and all on board disembarked and I with them.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Olympieum,71 besides fixing stockades at all the landing-places along the shore.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Lacedaemonian hoplites were waiting to receive them about the landing-places of the island.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Helots had their boats rated at their value in money, and ran them ashore, without caring how they landed, being sure to find the soldiers waiting for them at the landing-places.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

To the south is a fine. range of mountains, and I had noticed at several of our landing-places that the geological formation of the island was very different from those around it.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

The merchants of Truro formerly used it for the place of lading and unlading their ships, as the merchants of Exeter did at Topsham; and this is the more probable in that, as above, the wharfage of those landing-places is still the property of the corporation of

From London to Land's End 2003

He came to himself from his broodings on the shore, at the landing-places, aroused by the bustle of toil.

The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

At Ejéné, the second of two landing-places evidently leading to farms, we transferred ourselves to canoes, our boat being arrested by a fallen tree.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The merchants of Truro formerly used it for the place of lading and unlading their ships, as the merchants of Exeter did at Topsham; and this is the more probable in that, as above, the wharfage of those landing-places is still the property of the corporation of

From London to Land's End 2003