The monitors had small square hatches or man-ports let into the deck, admitting one person conveniently.
There now came a demand from Napoleon that henceforth there should be as many French cardinals as Roman, that the agents of hostile powers should be banished from the Papal States, and that the papal ports should be closed to England.
She was now ordered to close her ports to the British, to seize all their goods and ships, and finally to declare war against Great Britain.
Funds were obtained from the tariff at ports of entry, internal taxation, amounting at times to practical confiscation, contributions, and gifts from various sources.
A slow beat against the Guinea current until one clears the windward ports and works up to the Pambier; and then a fast reach across open water in the North-East Trades.
We have a pretty good agent at all the ports where we trade, and Wyndham sent a man he was satisfied about to the lagoon.
At some of the ports Wyndham made arrangements for the extension of the house's trade, but Marston could not tell if he was satisfied or not.
The point at which steam is cut off is determined by the length of the admission ports in K and L.
There is more guano annually brought into our port than into all the other ports of the United States put together, and the demand for this important article of commerce is steadily increasing.
But these ports and such as are on the north coast are convenient as mouths through which Welsh coal can be imported to feed the cellars and fires in the peninsula.
All the large ones were sailing for Bordeaux or the Mediterranean ports of France.
In sailing from the Sandwich Islands to the west coast of America, the Imperial Expedition will have to choose between the Ports of San Francisco or Acapulco.
Wheat and maize, or Indian corn, are also imported from the Azores, and some ports of the Mediterranean; an importation which is likely rather to increase than decrease.
That this literature with its endless descriptions of ports and products was intended for the use of mariners venturing forth on legitimate or illegitimate business, was evident.
During two and a half centuries Spain had traded with America only, through the ports of Cadiz and Sevilla; this ordinance opened all the ports of the peninsula to traffic with all those of Spanish America.
The commerce of Havana had in this epoch increased considerably and the greatest part of it came from the ports of the island itself.
They are a more polite and sociable People than the Inhabitants of any of the Ports on the Continent, and of late imitate the French both in their Dress and their Manner.
It was exported to theports of the Gulf of Mexico where it was highly esteemed for its superior quality.
It was printed in 1740 and was a translation of Domingo Gonzales Carranza's description of the coasts, harbors and sea-ports of the Spanish West Indies.
There is little doubt that increase of overseas traffic in the ports of the island contributed to the growing laxity of morals.
Here were the Edomite ports of Eloth and Ezion-geber, where Solomon built his fleet of merchantmen (1 Kings ix.
The ports of Berenike and Philotera (now Qoseir) were constructed and fortified on the coast of the Red Sea, and roads made to them from Koptos and Syene on the Nile.
It was quite calm at the time, and our main deck ports were open.
The Malay and Dyak canoes are made out of a hollowed tree, or, as they are termed in many ports of India, "dug-outs.
Our position was now becoming critical: the main deck ports had been shipped some time previous, but this precaution did not prevent the water from gaining entrance on the main and lower decks.
He was further informed that, in the opinion of the executive, the vessels which had been illegally equipped should depart from the ports of the United States.
The railway, forking for the only Caithness towns, Wick and Thurso, with their ports Pulteneytown and Scrabster, does not give a fair view of the county.
The coast-line here is thick-set with little towns of business and pleasure, grimy coal ports and odorous fishing havens, alternating with bathing beaches and golf-links in the openings of the low cliffs.
The foreign commerce of the department, which is principally carried on in the Mediterranean basin, is for the most part concentrated in the capital; the minor portsare Martigues, Cassis and La Ciotat.
Marblehead and Salem were made ports of entry, and Salem was made the capital.
All round the long coast-line of Dutch Borneo there are only seven ports of call, which are habitually made use of by the ships of the Dutch Packet Company.
Ostman ports with Anglo-Norman communities, who brought with them, or afterwards obtained, municipal charters of a favourable kind.
Vessels from Maine ports use this ground, fishing by hand line and trawl.
The seamen of the Spanish ports on the Bay of Biscay had always been animated by hostility to the English, in whom they found formidable opponents to their commercial enterprises.
Santos, in the republic of Brazil, is one of the great coffee shipping ports of the world, and for the development of its water front has required an elaborate system of quays.
In turbines of the single flow Parsons type, the governor actuates two small valves controlling ports leading to steam relay cylinders which operate the admission valves.
An enterprise had been concerted between the courts of Ravenna and Constantinople, for the recovery of that valuable province; and the ports of Sicily were already filled with the military and naval forces of Theodosius.
From the design of the king of the Suevi, it is evident that the navigation from the ports of Gallicia to the Mediterranean was known and practised.
A numerous fleet was equipped in the ports of Italy; and the troops, after a short and prosperous navigation over the Ionian Sea, were safely disembarked on the isthmus, near the ruins of Corinth.
If she is a mail steamer, she stops at all the ports on the coast.
To Christiania, stopping at all theports on the coast," answered Ole, when he had obtained the information from the captain.
The Cuxhaven sheds were not located, but the German naval ports were pretty thoroughly surveyed, and a good deal of damage was done by bomb-dropping.
The chiefports are Portmadoc, Pwllheli, Carnarvon, Port Dinorwic and Bangor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ports" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
