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Sentences ending with ports

I counted the seconds until the enemy's seamen would be pouring through our ragged ports. [9]
The washing down of the decks begins at a very early hour in all ships; in but few ships are any measures taken to protect the passengers, either by waking or warning them, or by sending a steward to close their ports. [5]
In the exercise of my best discretion I have adhered to the blockade of the ports held by the insurgents, instead of putting in force by proclamation the law of Congress enacted at the late session for closing those ports. [7]
Her Britannic Majesty's government, as was justly expected, have exercised their authority to prevent the departure of new hostile expeditions from British ports. [7]

Sentences containing ports two or more times

His lordship then referred to the rumor of a meditated blockade by us of Southern ports, and a discontinuance of them as ports of entry. [7]

More example sentences with the word ports in them

It was well worked in London; and bishops, statesmen, and all ports of people made a rush for the land company's shares. [5]
And at length, when some of the besieged had died in their anger, the ports were opened no more. [9]
Phips had picked up his sailors in English ports, and nearly all of them were brutal adventurers. [11]
The impression of unreality in the face of visual evidence persisted into the night when, after an afternoon at anchor, we glided up the river, our decks and ports ablaze across the land. [9]
At twenty-two George, through fighting-habits and drinking-habits acquired at sea and in the sailor boarding-houses of the European and Oriental ports, was a common rough in Hong-Kong, and out of a job; and Henry was superintendent of the Sunday-school. [5]
The distance between the ports is 600 miles, and when the difficulties of navigating the turbulent Missouri are taken into consideration, the performance of the Lucas deserves especial mention. [5]
It is believed that, so far as American ports and American citizens are concerned, that inhuman and odious traffic has been brought to an end. [7]
Do you know, Spain keeps her ports fast locked against foreign traffic three-fourths of each year, because one day she is scared about the cholera, and the next about the plague, and next the measles, next the hooping cough, the hives, and the rash? [5]
As he had sailed up and down the world, a hundred ports had offered him a hundred adventures, all light in the scales of purpose, but not all bad. [11]
He visited foreign ports, he came in touch with other elements than those of British life and character. [11]
The ports of Norfolk, Fernandina, and Pensacola have been opened by proclamation. [7]
On the fighting line, when there was a lull, our backwoodsmen stood up behind their trees and cursed the enemy roundly, and often by these taunts persuaded the furious gunners to open their ports and fire their cannon. [9]
Newcastle is another likely place, and in almost any of the Irish ports valuable vessels may be found. [9]
As for the last of the three Ports, or Portland, it is getting too prosperous to be as attractive as its less northerly neighbors. [6]
For the rest, I would simultaneously defend and reinforce all the ports in the gulf, and have the navy recalled from foreign stations to be prepared for a blockade. [7]
We sail on his memory into the ports of every nation, enter into every private property, and do not stop to discriminate owners, but give him the praise of all. [6]
Hermon must accompany him and his wife to Alexandria, whence, without entering the city, he could sail for Pergamus; ships bound to all the ports in the Mediterranean were always in one of the harbours of the capital. [10]
For the ports had been closed as tight as gaskets could make them, the electric fans, as usual, obstinately "refused to march. [9]
At no great distance lay the little city which had been handed over to us by the French Government for a naval base, one of the ports where our troops and supplies are landed. [9]
In the 'Eclipse's' day the distance between the two ports had become reduced to one thousand and eighty miles; consequently her average speed was a shade under fourteen and three-eighths miles per hour. [5]
An exclusion of commerce from national ports which have been seized by the insurgents, in the equitable form of blockade, is the proper means to that end. [7]
And I would carry the war straight into his unprotected ports of trade. [9]
We had now but one of our starboard nine-pounders on its carriage, and word came from below that our battery of twelves was all but knocked to scrap iron, and their ports blown into one yawning gap. [9]
They send a bucket of water slashing along the side of the ship and into the ports, drenching the passenger's clothes, and often the passenger himself. [5]
Bowman's men swung back into place, the rattle and drag were heard in the blockhouse as the cannon were run out through the ports, and the battle which had held through the night watches began again with redoubled vigor. [9]
Recurring to the action of the government, it may be stated that at first a call was made for 75,000 militia; and, rapidly following this, a proclamation was issued for closing the ports of the insurrectionary districts by proceedings in the nature of blockade. [7]
For this purpose a competent force will be posted so as to prevent entrance and exit of vessels from the ports aforesaid. [7]
Her lowest deck (too low for the purpose) was pierced aft with three ports on a side, and six worn-out eighteen-pounders mounted there. [9]

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