seaport

• The gateway to the Aros and the Ibibios, holding the Enyong, and being just a day's journey from what must ever be our base, namely the seaport of the ocean steamers, having waterway all the year round and a good beach front, it is the natural point, I think, at which our up and down river work should converge. —  Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
• The AU's 4 350-strong force in Mogadishu has a restricted mandate to guard key government officials and installations such as the seaport, airport and presidential palace, but hardline groups have always seen it as an invading force. —  News24
• Mount him and ride for your life to the nearest seaport, and so escape by a vessel to some foreign country. —  Capitola's Peril A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand'
• I was born and brought up in a great seaport--Boston--and my earliest memories are of loafing days along the harbor front and the husky-voiced, roaring fellows coming ashore in the pulling boats from the men-o'-war; fine, rolling-gaited fellows, in from long cruises and flamingly eager to make the most of their short liberty. —  The U-boat hunters
• The name of this seaport was called Tomie by the Portuguese, who formerly had an establishment there; but by the Arabs, Sebah Biure_, i.e. the Seven Wells, because there were seven wells of excellent water 139 there: three of them, however, when we visited this port, were filled up and useless. —  An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa

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