"Porto" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shipped to this country. The quality and grade of the molasses varies with each plantation. Two plantations side by side may produce entirely different grades. This is owing to the soil, which in Porto Rico and other localities in the West Indies seems to change with almost every acre. The cane from which the sugar and molasses is made is planted by laying several pieces of it in holes or trenches. The pieces are ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 • Various
... and truly, with the philosopher, "OMNIA MEA MECUM PORTO," for it was a long time before he could brag of more than he carried at his back; and when he got on the winning side, it was his commendation that he took pains for it, and underwent many various adventures for ...
— Travels in England and Fragmenta Regalia • Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton
... suggested that Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines were also available assets, and an offer to sell them was made to the King of France; but this sovereign overreached himself, for, thinking to drive a better bargain, he claimed that the low prices were too high. Thereupon ...
— Lineage, Life, and Labors of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot • Austin Craig
... a narrow lane—darkest and dirtiest of all the lanes, the cobble stones only showing here and there above the universal black puddle. Yet the air is not foul and many a broad street by the Basso Porto in Naples smells far worse. The keen high atmosphere of the Calabrian mountains is a mighty purifier of nastiness, and perhaps the pig is not to be despised after all, as sanitary ...
— The Children of the King • F. Marion Crawford
... that city's dependence on New York for Italian opera began thus early—were but $51,780.89, which were exceeded by the expenses $29,275.09. For the next season the house was leased by the owners to Signor Sacchi, who had been the treasurer of Rivafinoli and Da Ponte, and Signor Porto, one of the singers. These managers had an experience similar to that which Maretzek declaimed against twenty years later when troubles gathered about the new Academy of Music. Notwithstanding that there had been a startling deficit, though the audiences had been ...
— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel
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