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Example sentences for "foreign ports"

  • The warehousing system would afford that relief, since the carrier would have a safe recourse to the public storehouses and might without advancing the duty reship within some reasonable period to foreign ports.

  • The creation of a constant and steady demand from the foreign ports--which demand cannot be otherwise unless a protective law is reimposed--will naturally excite the dealers to purchase directly from the Polish grower.

  • CZ] The contracts are not publicly let, but go to the several steamship lines plying to foreign ports and to the Dutch colonies.

  • The act directed the secretary of the navy to accept on the part of the Government certain proposals that had been made for the carriage of the United States mails to foreign ports in American-built and American-owned steamships.

  • Besides the subventions to lines to foreign ports, the Government grants State aid to a considerable number of coast lines operating between Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian ports.

  • It keeps you from spending your money in foreign ports, where you only buy trickery for your silver.

  • It had seemed to him right that he would go down to the sea in ships all his days, and trade in foreign ports, and work, transmuting effort into gain, and should come home to rest.

  • All this he had thought out in the loneliness of foreign ports, in the night watches aboard ship, in the inhospitality of his mother's house, and on the jaunting-car to Dundalk.

  • He is kept vera close to his business, and he is studying navigation, so that helps him to get the long hours in foreign ports over.

  • But as soon as the barrels get the crown, they can be shipped to foreign ports, mostly to Stettin.

  • Christine heard constantly from Cluny, but it was nearly a year since she had seen him, for the crew of a passenger steamer trading to foreign ports, do not obtain leave easily, especially in their first year.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cored ball; foreign articles; foreign birth; foreign born; foreign capital; foreign coin; foreign commerce; foreign commodities; foreign competition; foreign courts; foreign influences; foreign interference; foreign lands; foreign languages; foreign matter; foreign parentage; foreign policy; foreign soil; foreign tongue; foreign troops; foreign workers; foreign yoke; many kinds; national pride; orderly arrangement; took them