Sentence examples for from the wharf from inspiring English sources
"Go ahead," my father yelled from the wharf.
We can take the F line, the old trolley cars that run from the Wharf to Market Street.
Well, no, but once Western Europe got hold of it, tango moved from the wharf to the ballroom and became the craze of the chic set.
If the weather is agreeable, take one of the Monterey Bay cruises, whale-watching trips or fishing trips that depart from the wharf year-round.
A second near-crisis was averted in the early, chaos-strewn days of the outbreak, when two women from the Wharf escaped from a treatment centre.
Running from the wharf to the heart of the old fort – where locals used to hide from pirates in the 15th century – this walkway is a magical trail of tavernas, coffee houses and homemade ice-cream parlours.
And, with Congress in session, it had V.I.P.'s like Ames, who complained that he was "smelling the perfumes from the wharves".
And many more believe that the Brown mansions had tunnels through which slaves were herded in secret from the wharves below.
The park extends from the wharves, where in the early 19th century a whaling ship might unload 2,000 casks of whale oil, uphill toward whaling-era houses and mansions that were built by prosperous captains and merchants — houses "harpooned and dragged up," as Melville put it, "from the bottom of the sea".
Today, it has been estimated that one-third of Chinas international trade is conducted from the wharves along the Huangpu River, which provides shipping access to both the Yangtze River and the East China Sea.
Boats head from the wharves, most loaded high with 375 traps to be "dumped" in the water.
