Which preposition to use with ported

of Occurrences 1284%

To-morrow, it may be builded above Pacific tides, where our own shores look westward to the ports of Asiatic Russia.

in Occurrences 229%

As the night was calm the tow had made fair time toward their port in the Hawaiian group.

on Occurrences 129%

With the first Mercer could help me, for he had his hand on all the lines of the smuggling business, and there were a dozen ports on the coast where he could land arms.

for Occurrences 91%

[Footnote 7: This is now a winter port for steamboats of the North American Transportation and Trading Company, plying the Yukon and its tributaries.

to Occurrences 70%

The substance of the earth is constantly taking new shape before our eyes, being rearranged in kaleidoscopic combinations, and transported from port to port, from town to town, from sea to sea.

at Occurrences 68%

It is my intention to bring the schooner which we have in tow to port at Honolulu.

with Occurrences 56%

Instead of going by the Persian Gulf, I travelled a considerable way overland, and finally embarked from a distant Indian port with a captain who meant to make a long voyage.

from Occurrences 36%

He said not a word about Clive's scrape of the day before, and that awful row in the bedrooms, where the lad and three others were discovered making a supper off a pork pie and two bottles of prime old port from the Red Cow public-house in Grey Friars Lane.

by Occurrences 25%

Open the port by the door, Brutus.

before Occurrences 15%

No man-of-war ever left that famous port before with so singular an equipment.

as Occurrences 15%

Decides the status of a captured American vessel visiting her native port as a foreign man-of-war.

into Occurrences 14%

Consuls were provided for, to reside at the five open ports, and those trading there were "permitted to import from their own or any other ports into China, and sell there and purchase therein, and export to their own or any other ports, all manner of merchandise of which the importation or exportation was not prohibited by the treaty."

than Occurrences 13%

Negus may also be made of sherry, or any other sweet white wine, but is more usually made of port than of any other beverage.

after Occurrences 9%

A noise was heard in the sea; and the huge monster, the Orc, appeared half in the water and half out of it, like a ship which drags its way into port after a long and tempestuous voyage.

without Occurrences 8%

The convoy may be sometimes accused of deserting the traders, when the traders in reality have forsaken the convoy, in confidence that they should either arrive safe at the port without protection, or be able, if they should happen to fall into the enemy's hands, to charge their misfortune upon the negligence of their protector.

during Occurrences 8%

The following is a statement of the number of British and foreign ships that entered and cleared from this port during the same year.

under Occurrences 7%

On this inclined plane, with the assistance of windlasses and numerous yokes of oxen, the vessels were hauled up one after the other to the summit of the hill, from whence they descended with difficulty to the point beyond the present arsenal, where they were launched into the port under the protection of batteries prepared for their defence.

along Occurrences 7%

A great number of merchant ships from the ports along the coast gathered around Antony's little fleet and offered their services.

within Occurrences 6%

Vessels designated for internment shall be ready to leave German ports within seven days upon direction by wireless.

like Occurrences 5%

They come ashore from a long trip, smelling of it a'most, and they go from port to port like a lord.

through Occurrences 4%

If mere extension of Trade is the thing sought for, it really does not matter much, in these days of swift and international transport, whether the outlying lands with which the Trader deals or the ports through which he deals are the property of his own nation or of some other nation.

between Occurrences 4%

If they were disposed to relax but in part their jealous and suspicious system, formally to profess relations of friendship, and, opening some only of their ports to our vessels, to allow a trade in those ports between their people and ours, he was authorized to negotiate for this purpose, and secure for his country such privileges as he could, not inconsistent with the self-respect which, as a nation, we owed to ourselves.

opposite Occurrences 3%

Manuel, in return, granted to the republicans the right of forming a factory, erecting a quay for landing their goods, and building a church; and the Genoese received their grant in an agreeable position on the side of the port opposite Constantinople, where in after-times their great colony of Galata was formed.

until Occurrences 3%

And it would, in my judgment, be unwise to withdraw the naval force now in those ports until, by the spontaneous action of the Republic of New Granada or otherwise, some adequate arrangement shall have been made for the protection and security of a line of interoceanic communication, so important at this time not to the United States only, but to all other maritime states, both of Europe and America.

towards Occurrences 3%

"Help yourself, Mr. Sharp," she said, pushing the bottle of port towards him.

Which preposition to use with  ported