How a towpath proceeds vis-à-vis a canal

Usage examples of alongside.

The Sherlock and the Watson floated alongside the offloaded actinium waiting for a lighter to arrive and recover the stolen merchandise.

Men came out from stores and counting houses, eager to have a hand in forestalling the embargo, and worked, adrip with perspiration, alongside stevedores and wharf rats and seamen and teamsters and farmers.

Presently the canoe came alongside and two or three dozen large albacore were tossed on deck.

He had a tendency to jumble one topic in with another as things occurred to him, and a good deal of it was profane, but Alec managed to sift out enough to set his mind at rest by the time they drew alongside the sleek hull of the Grampus.

A gray Alfa Romeo was parked in dry grass alongside a tiny three-wheel farm vehicle.

Dickinson of Scouting Six flew through several minutes of antiaircraft fire when the third chose to fight it out on the surface, then climbed to attack altitude and carefully placed his bomb right alongside amidships.

As the Saint prostrated himself alongside Amity, he could hear the voice of a man, apparently speaking to the dog.

For months, Dornan had been having god knows what nightmares about Tammy maybe sitting in seven separate garbage bags in a ditch alongside some dirt road in Alabama, or getting married to a red-haired, pompous psychologist, or wandering New York in an amnesiac daze.

Stray cannonballs, aimed too high, howled overhead, while others, aimed too low, skipped across the surface of the water and crashed into the friendly ships anchored alongside them.

As soon as he appeared his companion hauled his sail round to bring the aviso alongside the Ariadne.

Not much later a bergantine had come rowing out of a hidden cove and had drawn alongside them, carefully remaining a bow-shot away.

Dach passed alongside the table, saying a few words to each man, and reconciling those who like Buchner and young Birken were becoming embroiled in argument ahead of time.

The Biter was alongside the rigging wharf, starboard side to, and almost without a conscious intention he crossed the deck, swung legs across the bulwarks, and clambered down on to the dockside That Sam Holt had betrayed him he would not believe.

They took in the jib to slow the boat down, and signaled Bobber to come alongside.

Their own dinghy, deflated and folded around its gas cylinder, is stashed alongside that hatch in another piece of botchy retrofitting.