Encouraging more foreign cruise ships to stop in Greece, for example, could eventually buoy hotels, restaurants and port-town economies. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But perhaps the under-looked treasure of the area is Puno itself, a port-town, with hardly any tourists at all, but many animated shops on narrow streets radiating from the Plaza de Armas square. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And that is how a tiny port-town like Pondy became world famous. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2006)
There are many of those houses in every port-town. ❋ Unknown (2004)
From hence we went to Lynn, another rich and populous thriving port-town. ❋ Unknown (2003)
This is the only good approach to the secure and spacious bay that bore the southernmost Nabathæan port-town: there are northern and north-western passages, but both require skilful pilots; and every other adit, though apparently open, is sealed by reefs and shoals. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The first port-town upon every river shall be in a colony, and be a port-town for ever. ❋ Alexander Hewatt (N/A)
But towards evening it was known throughout the army that the Princes were safe, that the port-town had been gained, and that the Moors were slipping away from the citadel. ❋ C. Raymond Beazley (1911)
The city was built on the ordinary model, in two parts: a citadel and a port-town, which together covered the neck of a long peninsula running out some three miles eastward from the African mainland, and broadening again beyond the eastern wall of Ceuta into a hilly square of country. ❋ C. Raymond Beazley (1911)
They could look down on the brown roofs of the port-town, the forest of masts, the merchantman unloading lumber from the Euxine, the merchantman loading dried figs for Syria; but most of all on the numbers of long black hulls, some motionless on the placid harbour, some propped harmlessly on the shore. ❋ William Stearns Davis (1903)
A street was named for Glaucon in the new port-town of Peiræus. ❋ William Stearns Davis (1903)
There was no reason why we should go to the ship immediately, and I proposed that we should first explore the port-town, and then visit the city of Aden -- five miles away beyond the hills -- and the Tanks. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
Narva, a port-town on the east frontier of Esthonia, i. ❋ Unknown (1878)
The _Vega_ left Aden, or more correctly its port-town, Steamer ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)
All laughed, and declared that the "port-town" had long been sold off, the same had been the case, even in Tuckey's day, with the next settlement, "Condo Sonio" (the Baobab of Sonho), formerly the great up-stream mart, where the slave-traders transacted their business. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)
