Sentence examples for small wharf from inspiring English sources

A dozen or more colorfully painted traditional wooden boats were tied to the small wharf.

There is a small wharf, an oil depot, and a fishery station.

Twice a week, he partnered with a pair of young gondoliers, Roberto and Romano, to work shifts from a small wharf behind St. Mark's Basilica.

The property, in the hamlet of Voglers Cove on the south shore of Nova Scotia, has four miles of coastline with a small wharf, a shoreline deck and beaches.

Hundreds of islanders lined a small wharf to get their first glimpse of the refugees, who were barred from claiming asylum in Australia by the government after they were plucked from the Indian ocean by a Norwegian freighter, the Tampa, more than three weeks ago.

As of 1813, there was a small wharf slightly upstream from the mouth where the sloops that carried river trade put in.

Horizontal walings (wooden ridges) between these timbers can also be employed, but they have a disadvantage, particularly at small wharves and with ships having their own protective belting: on a rising tide the beltings become entangled with the walings, occasioning damage or even minor disaster.

In a 2014 Platform Papers essay, The Retreat of Our National Drama, a Flinders University professor of creative arts, Julian Meyrick, criticised STC for relegating Australian plays to its smaller Wharf 1 and 2 theatre spaces, with the exception of Kate Grenville's The Secret River at the 2013 Sydney festival.

The smaller dock incorporates six residential berths for house boats, while a passenger boat service to Granary Wharf runs from here.

The South Street Seaport played a significant role in the city's early history, developing from a small cluster of wharves into part of the nation's leading port and making New York an international center of commerce.

Visitors are allowed at any time; there is a small museum near the wharf, and some information signs are posted around the grounds.