485 examples of seaport in sentences

There was not one who did not own his ships and counting house, not one who was not a leading trader in our seaport.

We looked upon you as one of the more brilliant younger men of our seaport.

Posthumus then in a jealous rage wrote to Pisanio, a gentleman of Britain, who was one of Imogen's attendants, and had long been a faithful friend to Posthumus; and after telling him what proof he had of his wife's disloyalty, he desired Pisanio would take Imogen to Milford-Haven, a seaport of Wales, and there kill her.

It seems that, many years before, a young man had migrated from the valley and settled at a distant seaport, where, after getting together a little money, he had set up as a shopkeeper.

what was such a description as that in a busy seaport town full of scores of men to fit such a likeness?

I regretted much not having time to trace this branch of the DeGrey to its mouth, as it might be found to be navigable, and afford a fine site for a seaport town.

It seems that, many years before, a young man had migrated from the valley and settled at a distant seaport, where, after getting together a little money, he had set up as a shopkeeper.

You shall find to-day, in any one of the seaport cities or towns of New England, widows and daughters of sea-captains, living, or rather seeming to live, upon the most beggarly incomes, but still keeping up a certain pathetic sham of appearance of being at ease.

In the year 391, on a visit to Hippo, a Numidian seaport, he was forced into more active duties.

Puteoli too was still the seaport town of Rome as of all Central Italy, and the Syrians were then the carriers of the Mediterranean trade.

The blame for its loss must rest equally between Britain and Belgium, for Belgium, the richest country in Europe for her size, attempted to defend her greatest stronghold with obsolete guns; whilst we, who claim the mastery of the seas, sacrificed the greatest seaport in Europe to the arrangements of an obsolete diplomacy.

The very limitations of the first five-and-twenty years of his life passed in a small and decaying seaport were more than compensated by the intimacy of his acquaintance with its inhabitants.

With the harbor secured permanently in good condition, the port of Chicago, through the enterprise of the people of Illinois and the surrounding States, will possess the elements of military strength in perhaps a greater degree than any other seaport in the Union.

Its burgesses could elect their own chief magistrate, who was called the port-reeve, inasmuch as London is a seaport; in some other towns he was called the borough-reeve.

This forced Davis to put Johnston in command of a new army made up of troops taken from the seaport garrisons and remnants of Hood's army.

Sherman marched northward through the Carolinas and was reënforced from the coast; every seaport in the Confederacy was soon in Union hands; Sheridan finally dispersed Early's troops, and joined Grant before Petersburg; and the lines of Grant's army were drawn closer and closer around Petersburg and Richmond.

The Greeks were already in possession of this important city and seaport, as well as of the whole of southern Macedonia.

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.

Quebec: historic seaport.

Quebec: historic seaport.

From the moment of their appearance down to the last we hear of themas long, in fact, as the Danes of the seaport towns retained any traces of their northern originso long they continued to be the deadly foes of the rest of the island.

Broken by defeat the Danish dwellers of the seaport towns began to turn their energies to the milder and more pacific activities of trade.

The seaport towns alone kept up some little semblance of order and self-government, and seem to have shown some slight capacity for self-defence.

The family lived in a seaport town, and your mother attracted the eye of a young seafaring man, holding a government position.

Some three years ago I chanced to be in the seaport town where you were born, and I made quiet inquiries about your mother.

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