dock-water

Updated: May 16, 2025

The two men moved at the oars, and the boat shot out from the sluggish dock-water to the live current, down which it headed. "Don't you consarn yerse'f about them ships 'tis the dark o' the moon an' a cloudy night, an' as fur our course, I could smell it out, if it come to that!" They rounded the end of the town, and turned into the Hudson, gliding black over the surface of blackness.

Robert Neilson Stephens - Philip Winwood: A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces.

First I made out, with a kind of half-wakeful start, that we were at Whitechapel, and waking, as it seemed to me, a wink or two later, I found that we were in a region of docks and public-houses, with here and there a sulky gleam of dock-water or of river showing under the dark sky rare passengers and rarer tenements.

David Christie Murray - In Direst Peril