"Wharfinger" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The wharfinger, who occupied a tiny tenement on one end of the dock, supplied us with a bubbling samovar, sugar, and china, since we were not traveling in strictly Russian style, with a fragile-nosed teapot and glasses. We got out our tea, steeped and sipped it, nibbling at a bit of bread, in ...
— Russian Rambles • Isabel F. Hapgood |
