What is "quai"

Usage examples of "quai".

He hurried to the edge of the quai, beckoning to the steersman of one of the large, gilded craft returning presently.

I used to go for a walk along the Quai or, more often, just look at the birds.

On the landward right side of the quai stood multistoried brick or stone residential buildings, and their inhabitants came outside or threw open their windows, even on this chill gray day, to get a better look at the circus procession.

Now the circus stepped out more briskly, to its clamor of music, along the Quai Henri IV, which jinked farther to the right where the Seine parted around its two great midstream islands.

Gare de Lyon, then run up on a tether from the Quai de Bercy, to see if the observer she carries can make out what the boches are doing south of Charenton, in the way of preparation for an assault.

Can you call the Quai in the meantime and tell them to send an extra man?

My father, who can barely read or write, still keeps a bistro on the Quai de la Tournelle.

He usually called in first at the Quai de Bercy, just to keep an eye on things.

The business was run entirely from the Quai de Charenton in those days.

I felt sure he must have kept them somewhere, either in his apartment or at the Quai de Charenton.

I caught sight of you also at the Quai de Charenton where, it may interest you to know, things are not quite what they seem.

June, and for three months after that he went out in the morning and came back at night, just as though he were still working at the Quai de Charenton.

All this time, of course, his wife had no idea that he was no longer working at the Quai de Charenton.

He called me up at the Quai just now, and he must know my home address.

I was happy in my little office at the Quai de Charenton, where I was virtually my own master.