Behind the short rickety pier a road twisted back through juniper trees to the highway.

"Why don't you take a long walk on a short pier?"

The taxi had stopped where the short wooden pier joined the road.

Personally, they could both take a long walk off a short pier, and it wouldn't affect me at all.

For the youngest children, however, camp could be a perilous place; a long walk off a short pier was a real possibility here.

I hope they all take a long walk on a short pier.

Here's an idea: How about if radical feminists took a long walk on a short pier and just let kids be kids?

"Sometimes I just wish he'd take a long walk off a short pier, that's "Same here.

A short black pier stuck out into the water with boats moored all along it.

Sure, a butler might get strangled, but there's never any sense that the main characters will be taking a long walk off a short pier.