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... Hospital tower in Southwark and only 94 metres shorter than One Canada Tower at Canary Wharf. It was a rather ugly slab of a building that somehow ... ...al tower in Southwark and only 94 metres shorter than One Canada Tower at Canary Wharf. It was a rather ugly slab of a building that somehow looked ... ...line of West London was fairly flat. Stannard could see right across the city to Canary Wharf, shimmering in a heat haze. It was a breathtaking view... ... West London was fairly flat. Stannard could see right across the city to Canary Wharf, shimmering in a heat haze. It was a breathtaking view. It wa...

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...ition. A MARVELLOUS WATER-YIELDING TREE. Six days after leaving San Lucar the Canary Islands were sighted and the fleet dropped anchor in the harbor ... ...d Pigapheta embraced the opportunity of this comparatively lengthy stay at the Canary Islands to go on shore and listen to a tale told him of a very g... ... not cheer as the procession of haggard sailors marched up the street from the wharf to the cathedral. This was the elegant Don Juan Cartagena, and at... ... to return thanks for the departure of the robber fleets; they now crowded the wharfs and quays in a state of the utmost panic, on seeing the filibust...

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...sland. Ten years—how my fingers trembled. I saw those years, there on the wharf, saw them in the gulls’ wings, in the distraught faces about me, my ... ... a sound I had never heard before, the gulls wailing, the sounds from the wharf intermingling and incomprehensible. And I was there when he came wit... ...the war complained, unable to recog- nize their families. Standing on the wharf, I familiarized myself with the fleet, its remnants, an- chored forlo... ...omen...” I thought of those words as I passed Phaon’s house, beyond the wharf, iso- lated. As I passed, waves climbed its base, licking at boulders... ...naktoria described her visit, her baby sister, the sailor who died on the wharf, the arrival of an Ethiopian girl, slave for a merchant. She talked ... ...ith their backs to the blaze, instruments fired. “More ale?” “How about canary?” “Cake, eh, Will?” Cakes and rain perpetually, the strings for a ...

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...ppear. Now, the shipping is afloat, and comes up buoyantly, to look at the wharf. Now, the carts that have come down for coals, load away as hard as t... ...ow, the other steamer is coming in, and the Custom House prepares, and the wharf labourers assemble, and the hawsers are made ready, and the Hotel Por... ...ney pipe, that he seemed to be smoking it. Several boys looked on from the wharf, and, when the gigantic attention appeared to be fully occupied, one ... ..., lightning, funerals performed, and a young man in a bright blue coat and canary pantaloons. Here, were Little Warblers and Fairburn’s Comic Songster... ..., with a shelving forehead and a shabby snuff coloured coat, who (from the wharf ) brought me down with his eye before the boat came into port. He dar... ...black ground. Here and there, a coal fire in an iron cresset blazed upon a wharf; but, one knew that it too had been black a little while ago, and wou...

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...d in search of amusement. “I’ d dean forgot we’ d a passenger under that T-wharf hat. There’ s no idleness for thim that don’t know their ropes. Pass ... ...n’ on the tiller, an’ I sez to myself, ‘If iver I stick my boat-huk into T-wharf again, I’ll show the saints fwhat manner o’ craft they saved me out a... ...or five feet high, and her rigging flew knotted and tangled like weed at a wharf-end. She was running before the wind-yaw- ing frightfully-her staysai... ...nded. “Fwhat could they? The fish was on the Banks, an’ Counahan was at. T-wharf talkin’ av his record trip east! They tuk their satisfaction out av t... ...ha-at? We ask where we are, and they say-now , what you all think?” “Grand Canary ,” said Disko, alter a moment. Manuel shook his head, smiling. “Blan... .... Disko wiped the wet from his eyes and led the We’re Here to Wouverman’ s wharf, giving his orders in whis- pers, while she swung round moored tugs a...

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...ects of his heavy meal, he dropped off to sleep. Late in the afternoon his canary bird, in its gilt cage just over his head, began to sing. He woke sl... ... the top shelf McTeague kept his concertina and a bag of bird seed for the canary. The whole place exhaled a mingled odor of bedding, creosote, and et... ..., and he did not whistle over his work as another man might have done. The canary made up for his silence, trilling and chittering continually, splash... ...e room, noticing the stone pug dog, the rifle manufacturer’s calendar, the canary in its little gilt prison, and the tumbled blankets on the unmade be... ...e corun- dum burr in McTeague’s engine hummed in a prolonged monotone. The canary bird chittered occasionally. The room was warm, and the breathing of... ... for- ever rising and settling upon this mud bank; a wrecked and abandoned wharf crawled over it on tottering legs; close in an old sailboat lay cante...

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...rey side of the river was a small rat infested dreary yard called ‘Quilp’s Wharf, ’ in which were a little wooden counting house burrowing all awry in... ...ree heaps of old sheet copper, crumpled, cracked, and battered. On Quilp’s Wharf, Daniel Quilp was a ship breaker, yet to judge from these appearance... ...sufferer. ‘Help your mother to get breakfast, Mrs Quilp. I am going to the wharf this morning the earlier the bet ter, so be quick.’ Mrs Jiniwin ma... ...ed state, and betook himself to the river side, where he took boat for the wharf on which he had bestowed his name. It was flood tide when Daniel Quil... ...ouble of carrying an umbrella, caused himself to be put ashore hard by the wharf, and proceeded thither through a narrow lane which, partaking of the ... ... no livery, but was dressed in a coat of pepper and salt with waistcoat of canary colour, and nether garments of iron grey; besides these glories, he...

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...n Fifth Avenue of a golden-haired lady in a 60 The Age of Innocence small canary-coloured brougham with a pair of black cobs (for which Beaufort was ... ...lower-boxes had recently appeared, and before whose newly painted door the canary-coloured brougham of Miss Fanny Ring was frequently seen to wait. Be... ...t made talk impossible they bumped over the disjointed cobblestones to the wharf. SEATED SIDE BY SIDE on a bench of the half-empty boat they found tha... ...gathering up their pos- sessions preparatory to a straggling flight to the wharf; across the beach lay the white steam-boat at the pier; and over the ... ...ng to his arm as he guided her to the carriage, their slow approach to the wharf among slipping horses, laden carts, vociferating teamsters, and then ... ...about the station, and they were crawling down the slippery incline to the wharf, menaced by swaying coal- carts, bewildered horses, dishevelled expre...

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...ght be supposed to show, if he found himself, one day, the father of a young canary. ‘An’t he beautiful, John? Don’t he look precious in his sleep?’ ‘... ...e skating, and sliding; and the heavy old barges, frozen up somewhere near a wharf, would smoke their rusty iron chimney pipes all day, and have a laz...

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...ash Toby Crackit,’ replied Sikes. ‘He says he’ s worn sham whiskers, and a canary waistcoat, the whole blessed time he’s been loitering down there, an... ...re of the fires that burnt upon the small craft moored off the differ ent wharfs, and rendering darker and more indistinct the murky buildings on the...

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...a splendid dwelling, and removed the post- house from the Grand’Rue to the wharf. The new establish- ment cost two hundred thousand francs, which the ... ...l pin your legs first! Come, Minoret, don’t stand staring there like a big canary; you are in your own house, and you allow a man to keep his hat on b...

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...ed to say, using the same words, when she made the gift, “This dear little canary, this little yellow-boy, is worth ninety-eight francs! Keep it, my p... ...hey opened their shops for the day. When they saw him coming back from the wharf, followed by a porter from the coach-office wheeling a barrow which w...

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...ur of a narrow street full of carts and waggons, she peeped into a kind of wharf or landing-place upon the river-side, where there were a great many p... ...in amazement: observing under his breath, I never saw such a start on this wharf before. Walter picked up the shoe, and put it on the little foot as t... ...that a new cage with gilded wires had been provided for the ancient little canary bird; that divers ornaments, cut out of coloured card-boards and pap... ... found it difficult to decide this point. He had a great affection for the wharf where he had encountered Florence, and for the streets (albeit not en... ...y they went, himself, his Uncle, and the Captain, in a hackney- coach to a wharf, where they were to take steam-boat for some Reach down the river, th... ...called the Cautious Clara, and was lying hard by Ratcliffe. Arrived at the wharf off which this great commander’ s ship was jammed in among some five ...

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... boy follows it, who says, after having let it slam: ‘Come for the stuffed canary.’ ‘It’s three and ninepence,’ returns V enus; ‘have you got the mone... ...ngly low spirits and making whimpering sounds, peers about for the stuffed canary . On his taking the candle to assist his search, Mr Wegg observes th... ... appearance of wanting to lay hold of him. From these Mr Venus rescues the canary in a glass case, and shows it to the boy. ‘There!’ he whimpers. ‘The... ...a large mourning or- der the day before yesterday. Doll I work for, lost a canary- bird.’ The person of the house gave another little laugh, and then ... ...replied R. Wilfer, modestly dropping his voice on the word, as he eyed the canary-coloured fittings. ‘Oh! That’s nothing, Pa!’ ‘T ruly, it ain’t as mu... ...d been on board two minutes, there they were, looking down at him from the wharf above. 663 Charles Dickens ‘Pa, dear!’ cried Bella, beckoning him wi...

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...lers bestowed their luncheon and their books. Our chariot was black above, canary yellow below, beauti- fully varnished, and with our arms blazoned on... ...t of the river, and come back with the pilot; and we all drove down to the wharf together; nobody saying much by the way, ex- 214 Chantry House cept ...

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...nt, and show himself to his wife. He was forced instantly to return to the wharf, but he promised to come back as soon as he should have taken order f... ...them in the circle, and according to the hospitality of the time, a cup of canary fetched for each to warm him after the ride, while 212 ... ...s, were permanently attached to her, and lived in the neighbourhood of the wharf, so that, under the personal superintendence of one who was as much l... ...not but bless them with his whole heart as he walked down with them to the wharf. All were silent, except that Cicely once paused and said she wanted ... ... upon it, and would reply when Mr. Talbot returned from his voyage. At the wharf lay the Mastiff ’s boat in charge of Gervas and Gillingham. All three...

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...ur of a narrow street full of carts and waggons, she peeped into a kind of wharf or landing-place upon the river-side, where there were a great many p... ...in amazement: observing under his breath, I never saw such a start on this wharf before. Walter picked up the shoe, and put it on the little foot as t... ...that a new cage with gilded wires had been provided for the ancient little canary bird; that divers ornaments, cut out of coloured card-boards and pap... ... found it difficult to decide this point. He had a great affection for the wharf where he had encountered Florence, and for the streets (albeit not en... ...y they went, himself, his Uncle, and the Captain, in a hackney- coach to a wharf, where they were to take steam-boat for some Reach down the river, th... ...called the Cautious Clara, and was lying hard by Ratcliffe. Arrived at the wharf off which this great commander’ s ship was jammed in among some five ... ...ing, by a natural association of ideas, to her bird—a very high-shouldered canary, stricken in years, and much rumpled, but a piercing singer, as Prin...

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...that was a great deal too often; for the silly thing would cry over a dead canary-bird; or over a mouse, that the cat haply had seized upon; or over t... ...anity Fair the table was in silver too, and two footmen, with red hair and canary-coloured liveries, stood on either side of the sideboard. Mr. Crawle... ...d it”; and it was served to us on silver soup plates by the footmen in the canary coats, with the mouton aux navets. Then “ale and water” were brought... ...arties, and drive out in the coach-and-fourthe footmen put on their newest canary- coloured liveries; we drink claret and champagne as if we were accu... ...le Agent for the Black Diamond and Anti- Cinder Coal Association, Bunker’s Wharf, Thames Street, and Anna-Maria Cottages, Fulham Road West.” Little Ge...

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...urbed. One of the bridges was in sight She yearned for the solitude of the wharf beside it, and hur- ried to the steps. To descend she had to pass a s... ... that it was more than misery, even madness, afflicting her. He sat on the wharf-bench silent till she was reassured. But at his first words, the eage... ... after for the week I wandered alone about London. Mr. Powys found me on a wharf by the river at night.” A groan burst from Wilfrid. Emilia’s instinct... ...capacity to thoroughly enjoy it, tormented him. He sent for his landlady’s canary, and the ready shrill song of the bird persuaded him that much of th...

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...“At the theatre,” went on Nozdrev, “there was an ac- tress who sang like a canary. Kuvshinnikov, who happened to be sitting with me, said: ‘My boy, yo... ... being present in the fields, at the threshing-floor, at the kilns, at the wharf, at the freighting of barges and rafts, and at their conveyance down ...

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...pples, a pair of jet earrings, some Spanish onions, a box of domi- noes, a canary bird and cage, and a leg of pick- led pork. Mr. Barkis s wooing, as ... ... the counting-house men- tioned, or the business, or the cellars, or the wharf, or something about it. I think I have heard the business mentioned... ...stairs at the end, where people took boat. It was a crazy old house with a wharf of its own, abut- ting on the water when the tide was in, and on the ...

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.... Y et now I look again— bless me!—sure no accident has happened among the canary birds or the gold fishes. Has your brother or the cat been med- dlin... ... you had been bred all your life either at Ranelagh, St. James’s, or Tower Wharf. MRS. HARDCASTLE. O! sir, you’re only pleased to say so. We country p...

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........................518 As I Sit Writing Here........................518 My Canary Bird................................518 Queries to My Seventieth Y... ...is position, levels his piece; The groups of newly come immigrants cover the wharf or levee, As the woolly pates hoe in the sugar field, the overseer ... ...ass –Whitman 109 Is it one of the dull faced immigrants just landed on the wharf? Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the well off, just a... ...cows and shouting to them as they loiter to browse by the roadside, The city wharf, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, San Fran... ...ation, The superior marine, free commerce, fisheries, whaling, gold digging, Wharf hemm’d cities, railroad and steamboat lines intersecting all points... ...e and death of workmen, Each after his kind. Cold dash of waves at the ferry wharf, posh and ice in the river, half frozen mud in the streets, A gray ...

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...a sparse reddish glow. Fuselli kept straining his eyes, expecting to see a wharf and the masts of a ship at the end of every alley. The line filed int... ...plish stains of wine. The sauce was yellow and fluffy like the breast of a canary bird. “D’you know,” said Andrews suddenly talking fast and ex- cited... ...’t they taking us a hell of a ways to- day, Skinny?” “We’re goin’ to Passy Wharf to unload rock,” said some- body in a grumbling voice. “No, it’s a ce... ...e.” Time dragged out interminably. At last, coming back to the edge of the wharf, Andrews saw that there were no more bags in the barge. He sat down o...

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...e refuse of my washerwoman’s family) and had clothed him with a blue coat, canary waistcoat, white cravat, creamy breeches, and the boots already ment... ...ely-furnished chambers with incongru- ous upholstery work, and placing the canary-breasted Avenger at his disposal. So now, as an infallible way of ma... ...hafed arches and starlings of old London Bridge; then, I left my boat at a wharf near the Custom House, to be brought up afterwards to the T emple sta... ...ll of. One afternoon, late in the month of February , I came ashore at the wharf at dusk. I had pulled down as far as Greenwich with the ebb tide, and... ...er, occurred about a week after the first. I had again left my boat at the wharf below Bridge; the time was an hour earlier in the afternoon; and, und...

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...s; else we shall be apt to suspect that he has taken a sip too much of his Canary wine, in his extreme deliberation which cask it were best to broach ... ...d by the ordinary throng of merchants, laborers, and sea- faring men; each wharf a solitude, with the vessels moored stem and stern, along its misty l...

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...de- scend to take any thing seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities or the eradication of old and... ...re is still ever some ad- mirable person in plain clothes, standing on the wharf, who jumps in to rescue a drowning man; there is still some absurd in...

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..., if you stood on tip-toe; and, with a trellis-work of scarlet beans and a canary or so, would become a very Arbour. There was a charming idea in that... ... the Three Billiard Tables, in the little street of the high roofs, by the wharf at Antwerp! Ah, but he was a brave boy to drink. Ah, but he was a bra... ...u. I was sitting wrapped up at the other end. When you took a coach at the wharf, I took an- other coach and followed you here. She never would have g...

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...tches and amplitude of paper with the uncritical awe of an elegant- minded canary-bird, seemed to present herself as a spy watch- ing everything with ... ...ting star-like in the distance along the highway, the crane at work on the wharf, the piled-up produce in warehouses, the precision and variety of mus...

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...tches and amplitude of paper with the uncritical awe of an elegant minded canary bird, seemed to present herself as a spy watching everything with 1... ...ting star like in the distance along the highway, the crane at work on the wharf, the piled up produce in warehouses, the precision and variety of mus...