Self and Gretchen wait for a prospective buyer at a pier.
He scrabbled away in revulsion and began to run back toward the street. He stumbled then picked himself up and continued to sprint away from the pier.
Then it is scooped by giant rotating buckets onto a moving belt and conveyed to a long chute at the pier where it is poured into the hold of a waiting vessel.
She parted with her friend on the pier yesterday.
A jetty pier, some two thousand yards along, extended into the roadstead.
When Sebastian wanders along a pier, whistling, and then emits a low and chesty croon ("City of stars, / Are you shining just for me?"
The ship lies at the pier.
The ship lies alongside the wharf.; The steamer lies at the pier.
She gave a contemptuous glance at Dale, still lying on the pier, and said to Loesser, "When he followed me to Crowell I finally realized what had to happen: One of us had to die... and I picked me."
Young swimmers leap into turquoise waters off a pier in Fakarava.
One winter, I came to this pier. Ruby pier.
The American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked.
Look over the rail on any pier, and the rust is inch-thick and flaking from its girders.
I can still manage under the sea, ‖ she said, warming her arthritic body at a fire she built with fruit boxes on a pier while waiting for other women. ―My husband had it easy, hardly lifting a finger.
At the pier in Sai Kung town, a floating seafood market operates in the afternoon.
Takings at the pier have dropped off this season.
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