Pier

Examples

• Introduces the next The passengers were landing from the packet on the pier at Calais. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The figure at the end of the pier had not moved. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• They accepted with alacrity, repaired to the pier, and gained--their share of a drawn battle. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Four arches form each span, each arch consisting of an upper and lower curved member or rib, extending from pier to pier, and each member composed of two parallel steel tubes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The signal of an English steamer in sight went fluttering up to the mast on the pier. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Her ladyship had been exceedingly ill in her carriage, and was greatly exhausted and scarcely fit to walk up the plank from the ship to the pier. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• We coasted past the sharp bows of a navy of great steamships and stopped at last at a government building on a stone pier. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There were no stages out, and we could not get on the pier from the ship. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The cast-iron pier consists of four octagon columns, 10 feet in diameter. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The first night the sailors of a British ship, being happy with grog, came down on the pier and challenged our sailors to a free fight. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They swaggered up and down the almost deserted pier, and hurled curses, obscenity, and stinging sarcasms at our crew. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• On that granite pedestal a cast-iron pier was raised to a height of 100 feet, the level of the roadway of the rails. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I was taken by Johnson direct from the Inman Steamship pier to 65 Fifth Avenue, and met Edison for the first time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The tube, when in position, was lowered down upon its bearings on the pier by opening valves in the pontoons, which thus sunk sufficiently to ease them of their load. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The length of the large tubes, through which the railway carriages pass, on each side of the central pier, is 460 feet: and the total length from shore to shore, 1,531 feet. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• When all was completed the great staging was removed, and the mighty tube rested alone and secure upon its massive wedge-faced piers rising from the bedrock of the flood below. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is to be almost inclosed by massive stone piers, one of which will extend into the sea over three thousand feet in a straight line. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There are over 50,000 tons of steel in the superstructure, and about 140,000 cubic yards of masonry and concrete in the foundation piers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Permission could not be obtained to interfere with the navigation of the Straits in the slightest degree during the building, and so piers and arches could not be used. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He had his foot crushed while laying the foundation of one of the stone piers, and died of lockjaw. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The height of the bridge above the piers is 330 feet. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He designed the piers of Leghorn and the custom house regulations of Civita Vecchia. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• To-day her piers are deserted, her warehouses are empty, her merchant fleets are vanished, her armies and her navies are but memories. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The central portion of the viaduct is supported on four piers, 90 feet above high water mark, with a span in the centre of 250 feet, and on each side of 125 feet. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• There are eight rectangular tubes resting on those piers, to form two lines of railway, each tube being 28 feet high and 14 feet wide, exclusive of the cellular cavities at the top and bottom. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The total length of the bridge is 910 feet between the centres of the anchorage piers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Three balanced cantilevers are employed, poised on four gigantic steel tube legs supported on four huge masonry piers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is 984 feet high, and 410 feet across its foundation, and has a supporting base of four independent lattice work piers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The suspension towers stand on two piers founded in the river on solid rock at depths of 78 and 45 feet below high water, and they rise 277 feet above the same level. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It consists of 24 piers, 242 feet apart, except the centre one, from which the span is 330 feet. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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