Sentence examples for wharf of from inspiring English sources

But the wharf of today gives little hint of its glorious past.

Throngs of contrabands reportedly amassed in the streets around the fort and on the wharf of nearby Hampton, Va., in hopes of securing passage.

6 p.m. 2. Pier Review None other than Gustave Eiffel designed the original Konak Pier, a long wharf of low stone buildings and glass and steel coverings.

The rulers of the City permit themselves the incredible luxury, inconceivable in Singapore, Shenzhen or even Canary Wharf, of weighing and deliberating every tweak of its fabric.

The new Nine Elms has been dubbed "Dubai on Thames", or "Mini-Manhattan"; Old Oak Common will be the "Canary Wharf of the North" (the GLA's plans are pictured).

The Central Wharf of the Salem Maritime National Historic Site is the home of the Friendship, a reproduction of a three-masted East Indiaman that was originally completed in 1797.

That puts 5,000 people who are employed at the bank, largely in Canary Wharf, out of work.

Floodlights on the wharves of the mainland chemical plants, six miles away, glowed in front of me.

He'd been left high and dry, reduced to the post of customs inspector on the wharves of New York.

It was Sunday lunchtime when the shipping agent's car edged us between ziggurats of metal containers on the wharves of the Port of Singapore.

HERMAN MELVILLE, an American writer, once compared the vast wharves of the port of Liverpool to the Great Wall of China and the pyramids of Egypt.