Praya

We coasted along the island St. Jago and passed by the port on the east of it I mentioned formerly which they call Praya; where some English outward-bound East-Indiamen still touch, but not so many of them as heretofore.

A Voyage to New Holland William Dampier 1683

The Praya is a fine promenade, extending in a semi-circle along the entire front of the city.

Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas W. Hastings Macaulay

On the eaft lide of the ifland is a town called Praya, with a good port, which is feldom deftltute of a confiderable number of (hipping, unlefs the crown of Portugal happens to be at war with fome other power.

The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time; 1780

Nicolas Asfouri/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Two girls sat inside a plastic bowl in a flooded street next to the Chao Praya River in Bangkok on Tuesday.

Asia in Pictures 2011

Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A dog sat on a divider in a flooded street near the Chao Praya River in Bangkok on Oct. 30.

Dogs Hit By Thai Floods 2011

Floodwaters Reach Bangkok Damir Sagolj /Reuters A woman and her dog float as floods reach her neighborhood near Chao Praya River in central Bangkok on Tuesday.

Bangkok Faces Worsening Flood Threat James Hookway 2011

All went well until the fleet, close together, rounded the southeastern cape to make harbor in Praya.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

All went well until the fleet, close together, rounded the southeastern cape to make harbor in Praya.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

I swept your close-packed Praya and beached your best at Kowloon!

Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys Various

Never shall I forget one lovely day when we went to witness the annual services at Praya, held to commemorate an ancient escape from an earthquake.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various