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Valparaiso   /vˌælpərˈeɪsoʊ/   Listen
Valparaiso

noun
1.
The chief port and second largest city of Chile; located on a wide harbor in central Chile.





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... seven men alive. If he had been slower in his movements they would have been dead, for they were in the last stages of starvation and exhaustion. At another time, some of his sailors were stoned in the city of Valparaiso, and one of them was killed. Schley trained his guns upon the city and kept them there until the murderers were given up to justice. He was the right kind of a man to have around the coasts ...
— Young Peoples' History of the War with Spain • Prescott Holmes
... concentrated, less dramatic. There is no one vital center to the modern movement which disaster can strike or decay undermine. If Paris or New York slacken and grow dull and materialist, if Berlin and London conspire for a mutual destruction, Tokio or Baku or Valparaiso or Christiania or Smyrna or Delhi will shelter and ...
— The Passionate Friends • Herbert George Wells


Words linked to "Valparaiso" :   Republic of Chile, chile, urban center, port, city, metropolis


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