wharf's

We gathered closer, the old childish instinct which drove us to the wharf's very edge when the sails were being hoisted and the anchor weighed.

St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

The water was up to the wharf's surface, and there was no sleep for us that night.

Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After Henry Bascom Smith

The skipper left his craft and came to bear a hand with the trunks, looking askance, meanwhile, at the boy who had got out of the carriage and stood on the wharf's edge, surveying the "Gull."

Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord

Her ladies and gentlewomen also, the fairest of them were apparelled like the Nymphs Nereides (which are the Myrmaids of the waters) and like the Graces; some steering the helm, others tending the tackle and ropes of the barge, out of the which there came a wonderful passing sweet savour of perfumes, that perfumed the wharf's side, pestered with innumerable multitudes of people.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

It serve; or, 'mid the dark wharf's cavernous breath,

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

"The wharf's up beyond the second bridge -- the Covington Bridge," explained Waterbury with the air of the old experienced globe-trotter.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I 1915

A portrait of a man playing the violin hung out, in massive gilt, over the table, like a ship's figurehead projecting over a wharf's end.

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

Between the gunwale and the wharf's edge could be seen a narrow glinting strip of very black water.

The Adventures of Bobby Orde Stewart Edward White 1909

As the wharf's supposed to be owned by Spaniards, I don't see what he has to do with it, unless he's recently bought them out.

Brandon of the Engineers Harold Bindloss 1905

At the time, this emphasizing of the wharf's seclusion had seemed extravagant, but now the professor wasn't so sure.

The Window-Gazer Isabel Ecclestone Mackay 1901