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Sentences starting with port

Port Hood is on the west coast. [4]
Port Hood. [4]

Sentences ending with port

Although the lead was pattering on the other side of the logs, Cowan lifted me to the port. [9]
The Minister of War has also in his charge some venerable swivels on Punch-Bowl Hill wherewith royal salutes are fired when foreign vessels of war enter the port. [5]
They fumigated us to guard themselves against the cholera, though we hailed from no infected port. [5]
And he can take my word for it--for I've been at sea since I was a kid, worse luck!--that a man with anything to do on a ship ought to travel every day nose out for shipwreck next day, and so on, port to port. [11]
When you were starving he risked his life--" Torn by anxiety for my friend, I dragged myself into the nearest cabin, and a man was fighting there in the half-light at the port. [9]
I generally stay on shore when we are in port. [5]
And in the midst of them, swinging to the tide, were the big "mother ships" we have sent over to nurse them when, after many days and nights of hazardous work at sea, they have brought their flock of transports and merchantmen safely to port. [9]
May it visit many a port! [11]
And when a man was running, and threw himself on his stomach to slide to his base, it was like an iron-clad coming into port. [5]
It was approached in the "well of English undefiled"; it has been approached in Mrs. Eddy's Annex to that Book; it has been approached in several English grammars; I have even approached it myself; but none of us has made port. [5]

Short sentences using port

Nothing new from Port Hudson. [7]
Port, port! [5]

Sentences containing port two or more times

Another one tells you that this is an exaggeration; that the two chief villages, Port Louis and Curepipe, fall short of heavenly perfection; that nobody lives in Port Louis except upon compulsion, and that Curepipe is the wettest and rainiest place in the world. [5]
They were first scattered, then two of them went down, another was so disabled that she had to be turned back to the port they had left, and the remaining two were separated, so that their only course was to return to port also. [11]
Thus stripped, he roamed about Normandy in a forlorn condition, occasionally entertained by honorable persons who had heard of his misfortunes, and seeking always means of continuing his travels, wandering from port to port on the chance of embarking on a man-of-war. [4]
I knows a port, an' it's a good port, I knows a home, an' it's a good home-- But Oh the pretty that is my sort, What's wearyin' till I come! [11]
I knows a port, an' it's a good port, I knows a home, an' it's a good home But O the pretty that is my sort, That's wearyin' till I come! [11]
I knows a port, an' it's a good port, An' many a brig is ridin' easy there; I knows a home, an' it's a good home, An' a lass that's sweet an' fair. [11]
Ordered, First: that clearances issued by the Treasury Department for vessels or merchandise bound for the port of Norfolk, for the military necessities of the department, certified by the military commandant at Fort Monroe, shall be allowed to enter said port. [7]

More example sentences with the word port in them

The rewards of your long and patient industry are on their way, and their arrival safe in port, presently, seems assured. [5]
After being five years at the Port School, the time drew near when I was to enter college. [6]
Besides, no one would have found admittance to the royal port, which was closed on all sides. [10]
They fell to work on the port battery in so ludicrous a manner that I was fain to laugh despite the gravity of the situation. [9]
If suspicious characters were seen about Port Henry, or if any such landed from the steamers on the shore of Lake Champlain, it was impossible to identify them with these invaders who were never seen. [4]
Yes, out we went through the harbour of Kingston, beyond the splendid defences of Port Royal and the men-of-war there, past the Palisadoes and Rock Fort, and away to the place of treasure-trove. [11]
Well, one day we were lying in the open sea, about two hundred and fifty miles from Port Darwin. [11]
And that afternoon we had a two-shilling bottle of port for dinner, which we shared with a broken-down parson who had been chaplain in ordinary to my Lord Wortley, and who had preached us an Easter sermon the day before. [9]
He had his way, in port and out of it. [9]
Their first act was to declare that the fleet should not leave port until the men's demands were satisfied. [11]
The lawyer's captain was to cruise in the North Pacific, and he could not go back or make a port without orders. [5]
If the amnesty was not granted, then one of two things should happen--the ship must make for a South American port, or she must fight. [11]
At this junction was formerly a convict station called Port Arthur--a place hard to escape from. [5]
Once when he was captain of the 'Crescent City,' I was bringing the boat into port at New Orleans, and momently expecting orders from the hurricane deck, but received none. [5]
The blonde's captain was bound on a whaling cruise in the North Atlantic and could not go back such a distance or make a port without orders; such being nautical law. [5]
We made him up a purse of fifty pounds,-- for the crew got to like him,--and left him at Port Darwin, sailing away again in a few days to another pearl-field farther east. [11]
And I have told her how singularly young Pamela is looking, and what a fine large fellow Sam is, and how ill the lingering syllable "my" to his name fits his port and figure. [5]
Nor had Phips told Bucklaw of Gering's coming; so that when the Bridgwater Merchant and the Swallow entered Port de la Planta, Bucklaw himself, as he bore out in a small sail-boat, did not guess that he was likely to meet a desperate enemy. [11]
It once seemed to us that, if we ever reached it, we should be contented to abide there, in a place so remote, in a port so picturesque and foreign. [4]
Then he went to the Khedivial Club and ordered himself four courses, a pint of champagne and a glass of '48 port, his usual dinner being one course, double portion, and a pint of claret. [11]
The prince strode to his throne with the port and majesty--and the sternness--of a Julius Caesar coming to receive and receipt for a back-country kingdom and have it over and get out, and no fooling. [5]
For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in. [5]
It was on this day that Roadmaster found himself at bay in the mangrove swamp not far from the port of Rahway, where he had expected to find a schooner to take him to the New Hebrides. [11]
It was of the younger Pitt, who had taken his meals and drunk his port in this very room in that other great war a hundred years ago. [9]
Then they sank the rover, and got away to Port de la Planta as fast as they were able. [11]
You will avoid the reality, and as far as possible the appearance, of using any neutral port to watch neutral vessels and then to dart out and seize them on their departure. [7]
I've been in the port and up the river. [11]
Went ashore in the forenoon at Port Louis, a little town, but with the largest variety of nationalities and complexions we have encountered yet. [5]
It was exactly the favor which he had done me, about a quarter of a century before, in that same spot, the first time I ever steamed out of the port of New Orleans. [5]
Sulivan informs me that, when he lived in the Falkland Islands, he imported a young English stallion, which frequented the hills near Port William with eight mares. [1]
Of all voyages, that is the easiest to make which has no port in view, that depends upon the varying winds, if the winds happen to be soft and the chance harbors agreeable. [4]
A telegraph line stretches straight up north through that 2,000 miles of wilderness and desert from Adelaide to Port Darwin on the edge of the upper ocean. [5]
But a violent storm, which obliged them "to hull all night," drove them to the port desired. [4]
But it grew steadily larger, and when about three miles on our port bow I saw that the ship was a brigantine. [9]
There is a stage from Port Hood to Baddeck. [4]
It swarmed with soldiers, adventurers, sailors who were familiar with all seas and every port, men with projects, men with marvelous tales. [4]
Our eyes caught sight of a form in the blockhouse port, there was an instant when a candle flung its rays upon a cannon's flank, and Tom's rifle spat a rod of flame. [9]
On the port side sat the Reverend in the seat of honor; the pale young man next to him; I next; next to me an aged Bermudian, returning to his sunny islands after an absence of twenty-seven years. [5]
The fellow had shamefully swindled L. There was only one "match" horse, and he had examined his starboard side through one window and his port side through another! [5]
But first he sent to the handful of people in the port a liberal gift of money and wine and provisions from the ship's stores. [11]
If we had seen a tortoise start that night from Port Hawkesbury for the west, we should have desired to send letters by him. [4]
He had set sail from England in a trading schooner, and was to join Phips at Port de la Planta. [11]
Only when Virginia read to him the Northern account of the battles would he emerge from a calm sadness into excitement; and he clenched his fists and tried to rise when he heard of the capture of Jackson and the fall of Port Hudson. [9]
You can only reach the port now by starting at daylight to-morrow. [11]
Ships were constantly putting to sea from that port for Constantinople, and Chusar was enjoined to sail by the first that should be leaving. [10]
Whole streets in Port Louis were laid flat--wrecked. [5]
Said he had port in bottles that were swathed in stratified cobwebs, every stratum representing a generation. [5]
A ship in port at such a time was not a scene of evangelical habits. [11]
We saw the place as we swept by--that is, we had a glimpse of what we were told was the entrance to Port Arthur. [5]
At St. Jean Pied de Port he was more at home. [11]
When the following paragraph was written the doomed ship was about one hundred and twenty days out from port, and all hands were putting in the lazy time about as usual, as no one was forecasting disaster. [5]
When I was out with the Innocents Abroad, the ship stopped in the Russian port of Odessa and I went ashore, with others, to view the town. [5]
On my way out I stopped off at Port Said to try and find Freeman in Egypt, but failed. [11]
But a few old fishermen on shore at Carteret shook their heads dubiously, and at Port Bail, some miles below, a disabled naval officer, watching through a glass, rasped out, "Criminals or fools! [11]
He was shipped off with just enough money in his pocket--no, in the purser's pocket--for the needs of the voyage--and when he reached his destined port he would find a remittance awaiting him there. [5]
Arrived and anchored off Port Louis 2 A. M. Rugged clusters of crags and peaks, green to their summits; from their bases to the sea a green plain with just tilt enough to it to make the water drain off. [5]
At the request of the States of Costa Rica and Nicaragua, a competent engineer has been authorized to make a survey of the river San Juan and the port of San Juan. [7]
Six days out of port, it became summer altogether. [5]
The last line of one verse was the beginning of another: "A Saint Malo, beau port de mer, Trois gros navir' sont arrives. [11]
He told me of Hungerford's kindness to him on the 'Dancing Kate', of his luckless days at Port Darwin, of his search for his wife, his writing to her, and her refusal to see him. [11]
In the time of Augustus, Ravenna was a favorite Roman port and harbor for fleets of war and merchandise. [4]
The sea is of a facile virtue, and will run to kiss the first comer in any port he visits; but the chaste mountains sit apart, and show their faces only in the midst of their own families. [6]
April 20.--The cyclone of 1892 killed and crippled hundreds of people; it was accompanied by a deluge of rain, which drowned Port Louis and produced a water famine. [5]
When sleep would not come at night he rose and worked in his laboratory; and the sailors of many a passing vessel saw the light of his lamp in the dim hours before dawn, and spoke of fever in the port of Rahway. [11]
The world had no shambles of ghastly frivolity and debauchery like those of Port Said. [11]
Another grievance, and most sorrowful of all, is that many gentlemen, men of good port and countenance, to the injury of the farmers and commonalty, actually turn Braziers, butchers, tanners, sheep-masters, and woodmen. [4]
I was without money in a foreign port, still dependent upon my benefactor. [9]
This morning we merge General Wool's department into yours, giving you command of the whole, and sending General Dix to Port Monroe and General Wool to Fort McHenry. [7]
Down on your marrow bones, all of ye, and do reverence to his kingly port and royal rags! [5]
There isn't a man in the Carpentaria and Port Darwin country but has lost a friend by the cowardly crack of a waddy in the dead of night or a spear from behind a tree. [11]
Just then the man glanced quickly up and quickly dropped his face again, not being able to endure the awful port of sovereignty; but the one full glimpse of the face which Tom got was sufficient. [5]
Mr. Warner, the lively parson with my Lord March, desired to press my hand, declaring that he had won a dozen of port upon me, which he had set his best cassock against. [9]
There was a little window cut like a port in a prison cell, and under it a bed, beside which a middle-aged lady was seated. [9]
She was the light of our party while we were together on our pilgrimage, a fair, gracious woman, gentle, but courageous, ---"ful plesant and amiable of port, ---estatelich of manere, And to ben holden digne of reverence. [6]
Twice since we left port our engines have stopped for a couple of minutes at a time. [5]
Every human soul leaves its port with sealed orders. [6]
It was the last relic of the old port of Caesarea, famous since the time of Augustus. [4]
The helm was lashed on the port tack, the haulyards set taut, and all hands down to the lad who was the cook's scullion proceeded to get drunk. [9]
After this, boats kept passing backward and forward for a long time between the Hornet and the shore, which was natural, seeing that a first night in port is a sort of holiday for officers and men. [11]
Common report says it killed 1,200 in Port Louis alone, in half an hour. [5]
Mrs. L, an invalid, had to sleep on the locker--sofa under her port, and every time she over-slept and thus failed to take care of herself, the deck-washers drowned her out. [5]
We are hustled into maturity reeling with our passions and imaginations, and we have drifted far away from port before we awake out of our illusions. [6]
He had no intention of running away, but at the same time he had no wish to fight before he reached Port de la Planta and had had his hour with Gering and Phips and the lost treasure. [11]
The place was instantly buoyed, and they hastened back to the port with the grateful tidings to Phips. [11]
It sometimes came in sailing vessels from New England as ballast; and then, if there happened to be a man-of-war in port and balls and suppers raging by consequence, the ballast was worth six hundred dollars a ton, as is evidenced by reputable tradition. [5]
When one is in distant seas and in danger of his life, one will hoist any flag, sail to any port, pay homage to any king. [11]
Through my port I could see the twinkling lights of Honolulu and the dark bulk of the mountain-range that stretched away right and left. [5]
Sixteen miles (two hours) by rail from Port Louis. [5]
True, at this hour commerce had ceased; but many had gone to the port in search of news, or even to greet before others the first ship returning from the victorious fleet; for that Antony had defeated Octavianus in a great battle was deemed certain. [10]
He said he hoped I was thirsty, because he would surprise my palate with an article of champagne that seldom got into a commoner's system; or would I prefer sherry, or port? [5]
It is my hobby to stand by the old ship, not sign on to a new captain every port. [11]
What happened to him at Port Darwin and elsewhere, I don't know; but one day I found him on a fashionable steamer in the Indian Ocean, looking almost as near to Kingdom Come as when he starved in the dingey on No Man's Sea. [11]
We shall go hence to Gibraltar this evening or in the morning, and doubtless the Quaker City will sail from that port within the next forty-eight hours. [5]
Not once did he take his eyes from the swirling water ahead, but gave the tiller a touch from time to time, now right, now left, and called in a monotone for the port or starboard oars. [9]
In storm you have been with us, so true a pilot and so brave a sailor; and if we come to port and the quiet shore, there shall be spread a feast of remembrance which shall never grow cold, Seigneur. [11]
When he had hastily bidden her farewell at Port Arthur he had kissed her and said: "Good-bye, my wife. [11]
Yes, Mungo Maxwell had been cat-o'-ninetailed within an inch of his life; and that was the truth; for a trifling offence, too; and cruelly discharged at some outlandish port because, forsooth, he would not accept the gospel of the divinity of Captain Paul. [9]
The port was getting empty now, for the hour at which the market opened was near, and none of the free Greeks cared to be absent from the market-place then. [10]
We have nothing from Port Hudson later than the 29th when things looked reasonably well for us. [7]
There were other friends and classmates, one of them a natural humorist of the liveliest sort, who would have been quarantined in any Puritan port, his laugh was so potently contagious. [6]

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