In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable
seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts.
Thus his nails and modesty were comparable to those of most gentlemen; though his ambition had been educated only by the opportunities of a clerk and accountant in the smaller commercial houses of a
seaport. He thought the rural Featherstones very simple absurd people, and they in their turn regarded his "bringing up" in a
seaport town as an exaggeration of the monstrosity that their brother Peter, and still more Peter's property, should have had such belongings.
Wellington is trim and neat and English; it reminds you of a
seaport town on the South Coast.
On the 21st of April, 1708, we sailed into the river of Clumegnig, which is a
seaport town, at the south-east point of Luggnagg.
After two months' sailing we arrived at a
seaport, where we disembarked and did a great trade.
"But how did you land at Osuna, senora," asked Don Quixote, "when it is not a
seaport?"
-- We anchored in the Bay of Callao, the
seaport of Lima, the capital of Peru.
I kept that most jealously out of sight; and I did the same with my naval academy which I had established at a remote
seaport. Both were prospering to my satisfaction.
The beach was a kind of public promenade where were displayed all the vagaries of a
seaport on the arrival of a fleet from a long cruise.
On the Saturday in that same week, I took my leave of Herbert - full of bright hope, but sad and sorry to leave me - as he sat on one of the
seaport mail coaches.
This
seaport of Smyrna, our first notable acquaintance in Asia, is a closely packed city of one hundred and thirty thousand inhabitants, and, like Constantinople, it has no outskirts.
He said he had a father in some English
seaport, I forget which.