Which preposition to use with piers
I knew the seaman's trick of throwing, having seen their brawls at the pier of Leith, and I had no notion for the steel in my throat.
Pier at 8.45, and Thirty-fourth st. at 9 a.m., | | landing at Yonkers, (Nyack, and Tarrytown | | by ferry-boat), Cozzens, West Point, Cornwall, | | Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, | | Bristol, Catskill, Hudson, and New-Baltimore.
"Because I was a fool," said Piers with sudden, curious vehemence.
I talked with some of our American professors just as they landed on the pier in New York fresh from a summer in Germany which was cut short by the outbreak of the war.
The Song of the Builder I sink my piers to the solid rock,
One evening, entering the room unexpectedly, she found Piers on his knees beside the bed.
He looked keenly at Piers for several quiet seconds.
"Master Piers in the garden, sir?" he ventured.
He moved at last, quietly, massively, and took Piers by the shoulders.
There were cries of admiring delight as the carriage ran from the long wooden pier into the dim arcade of sycamore and pine, through which the road wound, all the way to Rosedale.
[Footnote 11: 'Sparkling bowl:' Richard II. was starved to death; the story of his assassination by Sir Piers of Exon is of much later date.]
You see, we don't generally allow no interfering on our pier without lave, sir; the pier being ourn, we pays for the repairing.
Victor, who was on the watch, rushed to meet them with characteristic nimbleness, and he and Piers between them carried Sir Beverley in, and laid him down before the great hall fire.
Surely while we have been telling the story of Westover, Gadabout has had time to reach the steamboat pier above the house; and we may take it that she is safely tied to the pilings.
Piers from above began to have a glimpse of a tweed coat and a strong brown hand that swung in time to the steady stride.
There was something about its unvarying progress that struck Piers as British.
He poured out a stiff dose, and turned to Piers with authority.
Travelers also arrive at the Third and Townsend street railroad station, or, if they come by sea through the Golden Gate, at the piers along the waterfront.
Lord and Lady Deppingham were on the pier before him.
He stood beside Piers for a moment or two, gazing forth into the infinite distance; then with a slight gesture of leave-taking he turned as if to continue his progress.
We glided through forests of masts and rigging and slid up to a pier opposite great sagging warehouses behind which the sun was setting.
He did not see Piers under his lowered hat-brim till he was within a few feet of him.
He nevertheless maintained an unusual degree of independence until one day, while playing in one of the rowboats lying outside a small pier near their house, he, too, fell in and was pulled out by Adolph.
The practice of defraying out of the Treasury of the United States the expenses incurred by the establishment and support of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers within the bays, inlets, harbors, and ports of the United States, to render the navigation thereof safe and easy, is coeval with the adoption of the Constitution, and has been continued without interruption or dispute.
It must be remembered that a houseboat does not come up to piers like a steamboat, always finding men waiting to catch lines and to help in making landings.