Sentence examples for river dock from inspiring English sources

Since about 1850 the Tyne Improvement Commission has carried out dredging on the lower river, dock construction, and improvement of the entrance.

La Esmeralda has a Salesian mission, a National Guard barracks, a few tin-and-palm-roof houses, a river dock, and not much else.

A crowd gathered on the small river dock to see who the dying stranger was, dressed only in a loincloth made of palm leaves.

There are also an 18-hole course designed by Pete Dye, a par-three 9-hole course, a river dock and two clubhouses.

Colonial farmers along its banks would take their produce to river docks and ship it down to markets in Lower Manhattan, then load their boats with supplies needed back on their farms.

As the ship building and shipping industry came to dominate the Middletown economy, the colonists' need to transport their goods to the river docks required them to petition for roads through the Indians' fields, a process that was monitored closely by the Wangunk sachem Cushoy.

Be sure to check out the adjacent, large stone watergate, dating from Dickens's day, which was a passageway to river docks before city officials pushed the border of the Thames southward in a bid for more real estate.

More recently its river docks attracted a few big plants—the area remains one of DuPont's biggest polyester producers, and Corning has the world's largest optical-fiber plant here—but the pinched auto access along the azalea-dotted country roads limited most ingress to summer-cottage regulars.

By 2003, there were a total of 112 km of paved roads in the upazila, along with 256 km of mud roads, as well as five ferry-gauts or river docks for the use of barge-type ferryboats.

Often, river ships dock close enough to the heart of Christmas market destinations that passengers can get to them on foot without having to negotiate trafficked roads.

It is applied in the construction and management of roads, bridges, railroads, aqueducts, canals, river navigation, docks and storehouses, for the convenience of internal intercourse and exchange; and in the construction of ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters and lighthouses; and in the navigation by artificial power for the purposes of commerce.