Sentence examples for through the pier from inspiring English sources

He made this one, but the following wave, a fifteen-foot peak that came crashing through the pier, caught him inside.

If the goods on the docks will run-sugar, tea, coffee, grain-they'll bore a hole through the pier into th booty & let it trickle down into their boat, taking away from 500 to 1500 pounds at a trip.

These hit their peak in 1949, when, helped by the arrival of railways and cheap fares, more than 5 million people passed through the pier's turnstiles.

This enigmatic, expressionless figure drifts through the piers and diners of New York, a dispossessed flâneur.

In the midafternoon, I had the bridge practically to myself, and I couldn't help paddling figure eights through the piers and their reflections and shadows.

By crisscrossing the logs, the builders allowed water to pass through the piers, offering less resistance to floods than with a solid design.

"If we can be in the 3-D world, we can say, 'If you shoot this way, you'll get great depth through the piers, and you won't have to build this half of the pier,' " he explained.

Marconi and Mr. Speers — and Joseph Bottomley, the general manager of Marconi's operations in the United States — went downtown together and pushed through the crowd at the pier.

Divers continued to search the water and the wreckage of the pier through the night, though Police Commissioner John Timoney said there was no reason to believe more people were in the water.

Walk in a nutshell This sea-sprayed stroll will take you from George's exotic pleasure palace, past the pier, through narrow cobbled lanes and around a favourite local park.

The film opened with Barney, playing the satyr with prothetic ears and nose, carefully combing fire-engine red hair over some raised, rather anus-like protuberances, before crashing through a hole in the pier and into the sea – where he kept tapdancing on the sea bed.