"Waterfront" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... half the waterfront on your heels if you let it out that you're taking Dinshaw to his island. Plenty would go if he'd tell 'em where it is, but they ...
— Isle o' Dreams • Frederick F. Moore
... the great city was asleep and the busy wharves along the waterfront were, for the night's brief interval, dark and lonesome, two tug-boats, like a pair of sturdy little Davids, sidled up to the great steel Goliath and slowly she moved out into midstream and turned her towering prow toward where the Goddess of Liberty held aloft her beckoning ...
— Tom Slade with the Colors • Percy K. Fitzhugh
... coruscated like one of his wife's diamonds. "Heaps of money," he repeated. "The mills are still in my name," he went on, "but five years since I sold them—We live on the income. We own Harbor Castle, the finest house on the whole waterfront." ...
— The Log of The "Jolly Polly" • Richard Harding Davis
... waterfront, along toward the green promontory crowned by Stevens Institute, still has a war-time flavour. The old Hamburg-American line piers are used by the Army Transport Service, and in the sunshine a number of soldiers, off duty, were happily drowsing on a row of two-tiered beds ...
— Plum Pudding - Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned • Christopher Morley
... waterfront turmoil, an infinitesimal human atom added to it. His tiny craft fixed itself upon the outer edge of the wriggling river life like a coral cell attaching itself to a slow growing atoll. From there he worked his way inshore, crawling over the craft that stretched out from the low banks as a ...
— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various
... as I can with my small force. All roads are patrolled by motorcycles; four launches are on the waterfront, and there are ...
— Poisoned Air • Sterner St. Paul Meek
... escape my observation that Ranjoor Singh was interested more than a little in the waterfront. But we all tramped like dumb men, splashed to the waist with street dirt, aware we were being used to make a mental impression on the Turks, but afraid to refuse obedience lest we be not sent to Gallipoli after ...
— Hira Singh - When India came to fight in Flanders • Talbot Mundy
... chap who took th' sapphires engaged passage as a steward. His cabin-mate saw him lookin' over th' stones. He'd taken 'em out o' their settings. This man Jameson pinches 'em, but his mate follows him up an' has it out with him in a waterfront groggery. Got 'em back. Cool customer. I went on board th' next morning an' quizzed him. An' say, he done me up brown. As unblinkin' a liar 's I ever met. Took me t' his cabin an' showed me what he professed Jameson had swiped. Nothing but a pearl an' ...
— The Voice in the Fog • Harold MacGrath
... and sang and talked of the drive, and of the waterfront dives of cities, whose calk-pocked floors spoke the shame of the ...
— The Promise - A Tale of the Great Northwest • James B. Hendryx
... or our docks or our waterfront or anything else. The Republican Legislature and Governor run the whole shootin' match. We've got to eat and drink what they tell us to eat and drink, and have got to choose our time for eatin' and drinkin' to suit them. If they don't feel like takin' a glass of beer ...
— Plunkitt of Tammany Hall • George Washington Plunkitt |
