Sentence examples for great harbour from inspiring English sources

Caesar sided with Cleopatra and was soon besieged by the Ptolemaic forces by land and sea in the great harbour.

Equally moving is the account of the last battles in the great harbour of Syracuse and of the Athenian retreat.

Mers el-Kebir (Arabic: "Great Harbour") was developed in 1939 56 as a major French naval base.

The final catastrophic sea battle in the Great Harbour of Syracuse was fought in cramped circumstances that did not allow the Athenian fleet enough freedom of maneuver.

Syracuse's nucleus is formed by the southward-projecting island of Ortygia, which half-encloses the bay known as the Great Harbour.

An avid fisherman, he was a seasonal resident of Great Harbour Cay, Bahamas and served as President of its Property Owners Association.

Almost completely landlocked, it is considered one of the world's great harbours and has an area of 770 sq mi (2,000 sq km) with a 120-mi (190-km) circumference.

I saw a great imperial harbour – maybe New York, maybe London, maybe ancient Alexandria or Byzantium, or more precisely all of these rolled into one – with the water's troughs and ridges glinting in the sun, though it was night.

We'll try to get hold of Patrick to judge the winner - with first prize a genuine keyring donated by Mehdi Karbasian, the president of the Iran Badminton Federation - but he's buzzing around Great Yarmouth harbour.

The capital, Maó (formerly known as Mahó*), is on the island's eastern end, perched above one of the world's great natural harbours.

The capital of north-eastern Sri Lanka, and one of the world's great natural harbours, "Trinco" has been fought over for centuries by Portuguese, Dutch, British and now Sri Lankans.Here, it is the hot and dry season.