27 adjectives to describe seaports

ANTIVA`RI, a fortified seaport lately ceded to Montenegro.

His first operation in Mexico was the taking of Vera Cruz, the principal Mexican seaport, on the Gulf of Mexico.

Quebec: historic seaport.

Bidding an affectionate adieu to his Christian friends, he set out for the little seaport of Cenchrea, accompanied by Aquila and his wife Priscilla, and then set sail for Ephesus, on his way to Jerusalem.

I took ship at a distant seaport, and for some time all went well, but at last, being caught in a violent hurricane, our vessel became a total wreck in spite of all our worthy captain could do to save her, and many of our company perished in the waves.

But Boston declined through its riverthe Withambecoming scarcely navigable for more than small ships, and after a time was placed on the list of decayed seaports.

ALLOA (12), a thriving seaport on north bank of the Forth, in Clackmannan, 6 m. below Stirling, famous for its ale.

Bidding farewell to the rocky Farnes, we sail past Budle Bay, into which runs the Warenburn and the Elwick burn, and underneath whose sandy flats is the buried town of Warnmouth, once a busy seaport, to which Henry III.

I.The Dodd and Hardie Families In a snowy-villa, just outside the great commercial seaport, Barkington, there lived, a few years ago, a happy family.

It stood in a quiet nook in the midst of the woods, about five miles from the pleasant seaport where I was born.

After forty-eight hours' diligence travelling, Jack reached the pretty seaport on the northern shore of the Adriatic.

The city of Salonika, a prosperous seaport of 140,000 people, which used to belong to Turkey but now is part of Greece, has over 50,000 of these Jews.

So, by an accident of idleness, he presently found himself standing rapt before the most wonderful picture he had ever seen,a picture to see which, he said to himself, men would make pilgrimages to Tyre, when Tyre was a moss-grown, ruinous seaport, from which the traffic of the world had long since passed away.

For instance, we didn't know we were going to Rouen till we got there; and we didn't know we were going from Rouen to Boulogne until, after a night spent in the train, the whole outfit jolted and jangled into the Gare de Something, down by the wharf at that salubrious seaport.

It found its way to their southern seaports, and without being recognized as an article of commerce, the trade expanded with startling rapidity.

There the Russians, on their own soil and in their intrenched camp, wisely awaited the advance of their foes on the way to Sebastopol, the splendid seaport, fortress, and arsenal at the extreme southwestern point of the Crimea.

He had been well badgered by the persevering erudition of the vice-governatore; and, stored as he was with nautical anecdotes and a tolerable personal acquaintance with sundry seaports, for any expected occasion of this sort, he had never anticipated a conversation which would aspire as high as the institutions, religion, and laws of his adopted country.

Along the entire sinuous riverside the whole great blockaded seaport's choked-in stores of tobacco and cotton, thousands of hogsheads, ten thousands of baleslest they enrich the enemywere being hauled to the wharves and landings and were just now beginning to receive the torch, the wharves also burning, and boats and ships on either side of the river being fired and turned adrift.

The year after this article was published (1878) Montenegro reached the coast of the Adriatic for the first time, and now has two tiny seaports.

Instead of taking up my residence at an inn when visiting , a considerable seaport, where the court held its sittings, I dwelt in lodgings kept by a widow lady, where, at a small expense, I could enjoy perfect quietness, free from interruption.

The loss of life during the month was comparatively light on both sides, but on June 26 the Italiansalready masters of Plava on the left bank of the Isonzo river, and the heights dominating that townwere massing heavy bodies of troops before Gorizia and Tolmino for crucial battles at those two points, both of which blocked the way to the coveted Austrian seaport of Trieste.

Plymouth is an old-fashioned English seaport that has been rather famous ever since the thirteenth century.

SWANSEA (90), a flourishing and progressive seaport of Glamorganshire, at the entrance of the Tawe, 45 m. into Swansea Bay; has a splendid harbour, 60 acres of docks, a castle, old grammar-school, &c.; is the chief seat of the copper-smelting and of the tin-plate manufacture of England, and exports the products of these works, as well as coal, zinc, and other minerals, in large quantities.

Limerick (37), the county town, on the Shannon, is the fourth Irish seaport, and manufactures a little lace.

Perhaps there is not so much of the "brutal or sordid," but then in The Parish Register or The Borough, the reader is in a way prepared for that ingredient, because the personages are the lawless and neglected poor of a lonely seaport.

27 adjectives to describe  seaports