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"Waterfront" Quotes from Famous Books

... million dollars, which I had hastily calculated could not be less than one-fifth, I had already spent over one hundred thousand dollars and was living far beyond my means. I had bought a farm with a waterfront on the Sound, a motor-boat, and, as I was not sure which make I preferred, three automobiles. I had at my own, expense produced a play of mine that no manager had appreciated, and its name in electric lights was already blinding Broadway. I had purchased a Hollander express rifle, a ...

— My Buried Treasure • Richard Harding Davis

... the stairs of a house near the waterfront, in a run-down quarter of old New York. He halted on the top floor, blinking in the dim light that struggled through the grime-coated window of the hallway. After a time he knocked timidly ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... with determination. It was too awful, those good-byes. Each got worse and harder than the last. We had divine days in between, to be sure, when we'd prowl out into the woods around the city, with a picnic lunch, or bummel along the waterfront, ending at a counter we knew, which produced, or the man behind it produced, ...

— An American Idyll - The Life of Carleton H. Parker • Cornelia Stratton Parker

Words linked to "Waterfront" : city district, dockyard, seafront