Wharves

Examples

• There were neither wharves nor houses on the melancholy waste of road near the great blank Prison. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The ore is loaded into small buggies at the mines and run down an inclined plane, where it is dumped into railroad cars for transportation to the shipping wharves, seventeen miles distant. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east of London Bridge. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The wharves of Ostia were chiefly busy unloading corn from Sicily and Africa and loot from all the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The front room was plainly furnished as a sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon the back of one of the wharves. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Typist: Marcus