Sentence example with the word 'gangplanks'

gangplanks

Last update: October 3, 2015


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Gangplanks were down, and up them streams of men in khaki moved endlessly.   [Please select]

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Steamboats were pushing up and down or nosing into the sand to unload their cargoes; she could hear the creak of hawsers, the bang of gangplanks thrown across to the shore, the cries and songs of stevedores sweating and toiling on the wharf that was piled with bales of cotton, endless blue barrels of oil, and black avalanches of coal.   [Please select]

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As she approached it the ports on the north side of pier 54 were closed that the Carpathia might land there, but through the two left open to accommodate the forward and after gangplanks of the big liner the watchers could see her looming larger and larger in the darkness till finally she was directly alongside the pier.   [Please select]

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