14 collocations for docks

" "I expect Goldstein will dock my salary, as well as fine Flo," remarked Maud musingly, as she waited for her hat and coat.

'For example,' said he, 'I never could understand what you lawyers mean by docking an entail.'

Up to this time I had felt a little ashamed of my cropped ears and docked tail, but now that I had a fine new collar I could hold up my head with any dog.

"You can trust them to keep up appearances before the public, even if they dock us a day's pay in order to square it.

Perhaps, too, my state of inattention brought down impositions upon me, and docked the margin of time necessary for the detour.

The Clipper docked mid-afternoon, and he checked in at his home away from home.

"I'm the loser, and we dock to-morrow morning.

He gave up the morning nip, docked the number of cocktails, went to bed before two, took a little gentle exercise, met Mrs. Pat Dearmanand (like Mr. Robin Ross-Ellison, General Miltiades Murger and many another) succumbed at once.

The Hon. Company's ship, Cabalva, having struck on the Owers, in the English Channel, and from that circumstance, proving leaky, and manifesting great weakness in her frame, it was thought advisable to bear up for Bombay in order to dock the ship.

The Clipper docked mid-afternoon, and he checked in at his home away from home.

I know old Brown fine; he'll hold yuh right down t' what yuh turn over, and he'll tally so close he'll want to dock yuh if a critter's shy one horndamn him.

Did I know that his mother had docked his allowance as soon as she knew that he would marry Verry? "How should I know it?" I had not heard then that Desmond's was doubled, when she heard his intention of going to Spain.

The travellers had not advanced many paces towards them before the peaks of three gables rose above them, vandyking the sky and docking the last sparse branches of the elms.

To get back to Clarence; he took about an hour to dock his cargo of hard luck, and another to tell me how strange it was that there was no draft from his London bankers waiting to welcome him.

14 collocations for  docks