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As for the Long Wharfs artistic director Arvin Brown, he knows viscerally what is good in drama, and season after season he presents it with honesty, professionalism and �lan vital.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wharfs, Wharves.—v.t. to secure by a wharf: to place on a wharf.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

In many places are Points built out into the River like Wharfs, all of hewn Stone; which I suppose have been built for Kings to sit upon for Pleasure.

From An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape by Knox, Robert

Wharfs for the use of ships and canal boats will also be constructed on this frontage.

From The Story of Electricity by Munro, John

Also by marrying Miss Rayner who will inherit Miss Wharfs money, he gets rid of a mortgage that's troubling him.

From The Mandarin's Fan by Hume, Fergus