Sentence examples for through the piers from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

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.

I stationed my camera in a second-floor window, so that I would be above the roofs of the cars going by, and my Michel Simon walked on the piers, through the streets of Paris, among people who didn't notice him.

On September 18th 1926 a hurricane hit south Florida, ripping through the hotels, piers, marinas and mansions that had been put up in the preceding years.The storm killed 400 people and made another 50,000 homeless.

Shear walls are the main components of this structural system, even if masonry spandrels are the elements that ensure the connection of shear wall panels and the distribution of stresses through the masonry piers.

Anchorage of the pylon with the base of piers was effected through Dywidag rods, duly anchored in the piers.