levee-wharf

Updated: June 20, 2025

In half an hour he was back with a drayman an idle levee-wharf hanger-on who was waiting for a job. Frank had bargained with him to deliver the soap for sixty cents. In still another half-hour he was before the door of the astonished Mr. Dalrymple whom he had come out and look at the boxes before attempting to remove them.

Theodore Dreiser - The Financier, a novel