Read full poem →Ftesh as hie own. and flouriEhing.
But he preferred to the Cinque Ports '
Theae fiye imaginary forts,
Dictionary Entry
A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
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Common Phrases
. portsports treatyports cinqueports americanports foreign
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Poetry examples for “ports”
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Read full poem →Of thoughts to watch and ward
At th’ eye and ear, the ports unto the mind,
That no strange, or unkind
Read full poem →The two main ports that may betray ye, strongly
From %/// belief first, then from fiattery,
Read full poem →THE ports of death are sins; of life, good deeds:
Through which our merit leads us to our meeds.
Read full poem →THE BrocxapE. President McKinley issued a proe-
Jamation directing a blockade of all the Cuban ports.
Admiral Sampson at once effected a blockade of the
Read full poem →lation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one State over
Read full poem →3 have been the original harbor which
gave Hythe a place among the Cinque ports. The
course of the ancient estuary may be distinctly traced
Read full poem →laden, and consisting, according to D'Estrades, of ten Indiamen,
seventeen ships from Smyrna, and twenty-eight from other ports, valued
at 25 millions of livres, having gone north about to avoid encountering
Read full poem →Philadelphia and Baltimore, and regular lines of packets to for-
eign and domestic ports. Hartford is the leading Insurance city
in the United States, there being no less than 22 companies in