Ports

Examples

• We have great fleets in the Mediterranean, but they seldom touch at African ports. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Should contagious sickness exist in any of the ports named in the program, such ports will be passed, and others of interest substituted. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Though there are in Europe indeed, a few towns which, in same respects, deserve the name of free ports, there is no country which does so. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Key West and Pensacola were also in our possession, while all the important ports were blockaded by the navy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• His majesty desired I would take some other opportunity of bringing all the rest of his enemy's ships into his ports. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• This ore could be excavated very cheaply by means of improved mining facilities, and transported at low cost to lake ports. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This liberty, indeed, extends to no more than twenty-five of the different ports of Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The entirely free Venetian republic ruled an empire of dependent islands and trading ports, rather after the fashion of the Athenian republic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Passengers can remain on board of the steamer, at all ports, if they desire, without additional expense, and all boating at the expense of the ship. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• On the 18th of June 1812 the Orders in Council were repealed, and the blockaded ports thrown open. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• His plan was to levy a direct tax upon the separate states, and collect, at the ports left open to trade, a duty on all imports. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Other submarines had voyaged from German ports to the eastern limit of the Mediterranean, but it was the most notable and attracted the widest attention. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But the perquisites of custom-house officers are everywhere much greater than their salaries; at some ports more than double or triple those salaries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The steamship lines were carrying Americans out of the various ports of the country at the rate of four or five thousand a week in the aggregate. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There is no charge for pilotage on vessels going directly through the canal without stopping to discharge cargo or passengers at the terminal ports. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But so far as the sailors go, we have to distinguish between the mere rower and the navigating and shipowning seamen of such ports as Tyre and Sidon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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