The College sank to the level of the Apothecaries' Hall, becoming an emporium for the sale of medicines.
She is the commercial metropolis of the whole Northwest, an emporium second only to New York in the quantity of her imports and exports.
Berenice was built on the Red Sea, as an emporium for the ships engaged in Indian voyages, and Alexandria excelled Tyre in the magnitude and success of her mercantile operations.
But the most interesting passages in the narrative of Abou-zeyd are those which allude to the portion of Ceylon which served as the emporium for the active and opulent trade of which the island was then, in every sense of the word, the centre.
The natural riches of Ceylon, and its productive capabilities, speedily impressed the Chinese, who were bent upon the discovery of outlets for their commerce, with the conviction of its importance as an emporium of trade.
The staple of wool was established at her centre, and she was the chief emporium of the cities of the Hanseatic League.
And while this famed emporium we prepare, The British ocean shall such triumphs boast, That those, who now disdain our trade to share, Shall rob like pirates on our wealthy coast.
The great emporium of the East became a heap of ruins.
Venice became the great emporium of the Mediterranean.
The first peacock hatched out was of the male persuasion," she remarked as we stood at the emporium door and watched the men dispersing, their bundles under their arms, each one making direct for his own front door.
But in the Emporium window there was nothing save the usual mill-end display for the winter white goods sale.
The Abel Ames General Merchandise Emporium was closed, but involuntarily Mary stopped before it.
On the afternoon of the day the letter came, she went down town to the Amos Ames Emporium to buy a washbasin and pitcher for the room she meant the little boy to have.
Abel Ames, proprietor of the Granger County Merchandise Emporium ("The A.
He observes that it is not necessary to go farther than the magazines of the neighbouring Emporium for an explanation of this immense mass of potsherds.
It was at first not merely a village, but a small village; yet, in the time of Strabo, it was the largest and most frequented emporium of all that continent.
Footnote 20: In the neighbourhood of which was afterwards built the city of Batavia, the emporium at the Dutch trade in the east, now subject to Britain.
By the Romans the city was called Malaca; and became one of their confederates, (of which there were but three in Boetica) as well as the great emporium for their Spanish trade; although Pomponius Mela speaks slightingly of its importance.
Ronda is a place of considerable commerce; its secluded and at the same time central situation adapting it peculiarly for an emporium for smuggled goods; in which, it may be said, the present trade of Spain entirely consists.
By the authority of its government Venice had been made the emporium of the Mediterranean, and Italian traders obediently carried cloths or tin or bales of skins from England to Venice, and from Venice to Corfu.
We have spoken of the coasters that ply between the emporium and all the creeks and bays of the Sound, as well as of the numberless rivers that find an outlet for their waters between Sandy Hook and Rockaway.
Every one at all familiar with the map of America knows the position and general form of the two islands that shelter the well-known harbour of the great emporium of the commerce of the country.
The result of this self-conference was a determination to leave the Golden Fleece by the earliest conveyance which went to that great object and emporium of all his plans and thoughts, London.
In this interval the first British coinage was struck, and London became the chief emporium of Britain.
The fertility of Egypt, and its central position, made it an emporium of commerce; and there it flourished, in an eminent degree, long before it was cultivated in Europe and in Western Asia.
Batavia, on the Island of Java, was made the grand emporium of trade, and the seat of the government of their East India possessions.
The Khati had not only made considerable improvements in all military arts, but were also great and famed merchants; theiremporium Carchemish had no less importance than Tyre or Carthage.
