 | 1851 - 492 стор.
...down far below the quay, and you descend to them by ladders ; whilst in another basin they are high up out of the water, so that their green copper sheathing...hang spars and planks, as a gangway to each ship." The -warehouses and vaults are truly extraordinary, and the volume of value of their contents, cannot... | |
 | Edward Litt L. Blanchard - 1851 - 324 стор.
...below the quay, and you descend to them by ladders, whilst, in another basin, they are high up and out of the water, so that their green copper sheathing...passenger ; while above his head a long line of bowsprits stretches far over the quay, and, from them, hang spars and planks as a gangway to each ship." This... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 398 стор.
...level of the quay, and you descend to them by ladders, whilst, in another basin, they are high up and I out of the water, so that their green copper sheathing...with the eye of the passenger; while above his head a longline of bowsprits stretches far over the quay, and, from them, hang spars and planks as a gangway... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1857 - 332 стор.
...down far below the quay, and you descend to them by ladders ; whilst in another basin they are high up out of the water, so that their green copper sheathing...bowsprits stretch far over the quay, and from them heavy spars and planks, as a gangway to each ship." This magnificent establishment covers upwards of... | |
 | Edward Litt L. Blanchard - 1860 - 336 стор.
...far below the quay, and you descend to them by ladders; whilst in another basin they are high up and out of the water, so that their green copper sheathing...passenger; while above his head a long line of bowsprits stretches far over the quay, and from them hang spars and planks as a gangway to each ship." This immense... | |
 | Edward Litt L. Blanchard - 1861 - 338 стор.
...almost level with the eye of the passenger; while above his head a long line of bowsprits stretches far over the quay, and from them hang spars and planks...worked by from one to three thousand hands, according to the "brisk" or "slack" nature of the business. One of the most extraordinary and least-known scenes... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - 1861 - 520 стор.
...down far below the quay, and you descend to them by ladders; whilst in another basin they are high up out of the water, so that their green copper sheathing...passenger; while above his head a long line of bowsprits stretches far over the quay ; and from them hang spars and planks aз a gangway to each ship. This... | |
 | Henry Mayhew, John Binny - 1862 - 740 стор.
...of the dock, so that their green copperBhceting is almost level with the eye of the passenger, and above his head a long line of bowsprits stretch far over the quay, with, spars and planks hanging from them as a temporary gangway to each vessel. " It is impossible,"... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - 1864 - 236 стор.
...down far below the quay, and you descend to them by ladders ; whilst in another basin they are high up out of the water, so that their green copper sheathing...according as the business is either brisk or slack.' " Here Mr. George shut t^ie book and put it in his pocket. " It is a very excellent account of it altogether,"... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - 1864 - 480 стор.
...down far below the quay, and you descend to them by ladders ; whilst in another basin they are high up out of the water, so that their green copper sheathing...passenger; while above his head a long line of bowsprits stretches far over the quay ; and from them hang spars and planks as a gangway to each ship. This immense... | |
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Here the heavily-laden ships are down far below the quay, and you descend to them by ladders; whilst in another basin they are high up out of the water, so that their green copper sheathing is almost level with the eye of the passenger; while above his... 
