Which preposition to use with dock
Since the war the same situation has persisted, aggravated by the completion of the harbor works and docks at Lorenzo Marques, which favors more than ever the Delagoa route.
As fast as possible the launches ranged alongside at the side gangway, taking off groups of midshipmen, everyone of whom had been cautioned to be at dock in time to board a launch in season for supper formation.
You get yourself off to the mill, or you'll be docked for lost time.
Who projected the gray docks of Montreal?
Kemp turned his gaze from the man in the dock to the man in the scarlet robe on the bench, and it was to the judge that he addressed his concluding words.
Fortunately for them the tug was tied to a temporary dock on the side of the hill where the slide had started, so they did not have to take a boat across, but could at once start for the scene of the disaster.
It's enough to put you in the dock with Birchill.
His cross-examination was the admiration of those spectators whose sympathies were on the side of the man in the dock as one of themselves.
They are docked without mercy, or, now and then, when not properly mouth-filling, they are "spliced" with a couple of vowels.
The prisoner was brought into the dock from below, and took the seat that was given to him beside one of the two warders who remained in the dock with him.
I was honourably acquitted, and had the satisfaction of seeing the lying rascals put into the dock by the indignant magistrate and prosecuted summarily for getting up a false charge and giving false evidence.
Although we had all reason to believe our bark would be dashed to pieces on the shore, we made every effort to gain the land, and fortunately our vessel ran into a kind of ditch or dock between sand banks, very near the beach, where she stuck fast, impelled by the united force of the winds and waves, and of our oars.
If you come hanging about here again on your own account, you'll find yourself in the dock beside Birchill.
As she worked slowly out of the dock into the stream, there was a great exchange of last words between friends on board and friends on shore, and much waving of handkerchiefs when the sloop was out of hearing.
They separated, and never met again until they met in the dock before mea trysting-place not of their own choosing, and more strange than a novelist would dream of.
"You're the biggest Shark so far," remarked Miss Armstrong, as Sahwah clambered up on the dock after her swim across the river, during which she had almost outdistanced the boat which accompanied her over and back.
Tyne Dock, just opposite, and the Albert Edward Dock near North.
Cato was expected to land at the commercial docks below the Aventine (see below), where the senate and magistrates were awaiting him, but with his usual rudeness rowed past them to the navalia.]
" During the conversation the boys had been walking toward the village, and, in a few moments, they reached the dock behind the post-office, where the two new boats lay.
Looking at the docks out of the hotel window nearly sends me to bed; there's something about a ship that takes the stuffing out of me completely.
Then there is Herr August Thyssen"King Thyssen"who owns coalmines, rolling mills, harbours, and docks throughout Germany, iron-ore mines in France, warehouses in Russia, and entrepôts in nearly every country from Brazil and Argentina to India.
But, immediately after their departure, a big lighter slipped quietly into the dock across the wharf from the Bridgeport boat, a swarm of men appeared and, behind the closed gates, in the semi-darkness of the wharf, rushed boxes from steamer to lighter.
To avoid this waste of our resources it is proposed to add to our navy-yard here a dock within which our present vessels may be laid up dry and under cover from the sun.
Twenty-five ships had docked inside the landing area, and more than 300 men were inside the facility.
He had probably laid them away because they so incriminated many of the great people of the colony of New York that, with the books in evidence, it would have been impossible to bring the pirate to justice without dragging a dozen or more fine gentlemen into the dock along with him.