Word Finder - porter

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A person who carries luggage and related objects.

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By the time I reached the train station I was exhausted, but fortunately there was a porter waiting.

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An ant having the specialized role of carrying.

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One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).

The hall porter was standing at the front door.

Porter (1804-1828), who was killed before the ship's surrender.

The hall porter sullenly pulled a bell that rang upstairs, and turned away.

Troops under Butler and a large fleet under Admiral Porter were destined for this enterprise.

The interpreter addressed an old porter and asked if it was far to the Kremlin.

The yard porter, his arms akimbo, stood smiling with satisfaction before the large mirror.

There are no upper age limits to becoming a kitchen porter.

They were the yard porter Ignat, and the page boy Mishka, Vasilich's grandson who had stayed in Moscow with his grandfather.

He was resigned to quietly reading a book until Mrs. Porter the housekeeper showed up a day early, accommodating a family wedding, and Dean's peace began competing with the sounds of a vacuum cleaner and Mrs. Porter's radio music, even worse junk than Fred's usual selections.

As soon as the porter heard a stranger knock at the gate, he rose, saying, Deo gratias,the opportunity for the exercise of hospitality being regarded as a cause for thankfulness.

Gerasim and the porter, who had followed Makar Alexeevich, stopped him in the vestibule and tried to take the pistol from him.

They tried a couple of times to telephone Mrs. Porter back in Parkside but weren't able to get through.

He obtained a knowledge of the methods of working practised in Bohemia by disguising himself as a porter, and thus worked for three years in a Bohemian glass-house.

Reinach's explanation of this ancient crux interpretum, which has been accepted by Harnack, Bousset, Porter, Sanday, Swete and others, fixes the earliest date of the composition of the Apocalypse as A.D.

After remaining in the Philippines under orders from his government to maintain control, Dewey received the rank of admiral (March 3, 1899) - that title, formerly borne only by Farragut and Porter, having been revived by act of Congress (March 2, 1899), - and returned home, arriving in New York City, where, on the 3rd of October 1899, he received a great ovation.

Porter was promoted commander on the 22nd of April, and on the 30th of May was sent to blockade the South-West Pass of the Mississippi.

Same day, at Norton, Mr John DOBSON, railroad goods porter, aged 63.

A night porter will greet you whatever time you arrive or help you to catch a night or early ferry.

After receiving her visitors, the countess was so tired that she gave orders to admit no more, but the porter was told to be sure to invite to dinner all who came "to congratulate."

Dolokhov, after Anatole entered, had remained at the wicket gate and was struggling with the yard porter who was trying to lock it.

Alpatych, his coachman, Ferapontov's wife and children and the house porter were all sitting in the cellar, listening.

The winner is Mark Porter, who scoops a prize of £ 1000.

Mrs. Porter's already signed up.

Dean moseyed off to set up his tent while Fred tried to call Mrs. Porter one more time.

I'm calling it a night as soon as I try telephoning Mrs. Porter back in Parkside.

Toni's dad is Antonio Porter.

He wrote Practical Sermons (1858; edited by Noah Porter); Lectures on the Moral Government of God (2 vols., 1859), and Essays and Lectures upon Select Topics in Revealed Theology (1859), all published posthumously.

A=D= -_-- - - ---Island =r= b = o =ir- monument by James Edward Kelly to General Fitz John Porter; a cottage hospital (1886); a United States naval hospital (1891); a home for aged and indigent women (1877); and the Chase home for children (1877).

Even in private houses at Rome, so late as the time of Ovid, the porter was chained.

According to Porter (Journal Soc. Lit., 18 54, p. 303), the name is locally restricted to the plain south of the Leja and the narrow strip on the west; although it is loosely applied by strangers to the whole country east of the Jaulan.

Another town in eastern Manasseh, namely Kenath, has been identified by Porter with Kanawat, which may be correct.

The cornerstone was laid by President Harrison in 1892, and the tomb was dedicated on the 27th of April 1897 with a splendid parade and addresses by President McKinley and General Horace Porter, president of the Grant Monument Association, which from 90,000 contributions raised the funds for the tomb.

He was the son of a naval officer, and nephew of David Porter of the frigate "Essex."

In the absence of higher authority Porter sanctioned on his own responsibility the request of Missouri Unionists for permission to raise troops, a step which had an important influence upon the struggle for the possession of the state.

When the Seven Days' battle began Porter's corps had to sustain alone the full weight of the Confederate attack, and though defeated in the desperately fought battle of Gaines's Mill (June 27, 1862) the steadiness of his defence was so conspicuous that he was immediately promoted major-general of volunteers and brevet origadiergeneral U.S.A. His corps, moreover, had the greatest share in the successful battles of Glendale and Malvern Hill.

On the same day on which McClellan was relieved from his command, Porter, his warm friend and supporter, was suspended.

After many years Porter's friends succeeded (1878) in procuring a revision of the case by a board of distinguished general officers.

This board reported strongly in Porter's favour, but at the time the remission of the disqualifying penalty was all that was obtained in the way of redress.

General Grant had now taken Porter's part, and wrote an article in vol.

Against much opposition, partly political (1879-1886) and a veto on a legal point from President Arthur, a relief bill finally passed Congress, and Porter was on the 5th of August 1886 restored to the United States army as colonel and placed on the retired list, no provision, however, being made for compensation.

After the Civil War General Porter was engaged in business in New York, and later held successively many important municipal offices.

The town has several linen manufactories and a large cotton spinnery, but is chiefly famed for its many extensive breweries, which mainly produce a black beer, not unlike English porter, which is largely exported.

A small commentary (no date) by Anderson Scott follows in some measure the lines laid down in Bousset and Porter.

His theology is most strikingly contained in the Andover address, "Relations of Faith and Philosophy," which was delivered before the Porter Rhetorical Society in 1849.

In the retrial of the General Fitz John Porter case he obtained a reversal of the decision of the original courtmartial.

Hill, whose men had fought the battle of South Mountain and had already been three times engaged a fond on this day, proper support must have enabled the Federals to crush Lee's centre, but Franklin and Porter in reserve were not allowed by McClellan to move forward and the opportunity passed.

The "spacious arches of stone and other vestiges of departed majesty," with which Ker Porter found it surrounded in 1818, were possibly remains of the college (medresseh) and monastery (zavieh) where Ibn Batuta found shelter during his visit to the locality.

Like Buell, McClellan had tempered the tools with which others were to strike; he was not again employed, and in his fall was involved his most brilliant subordinate, Fitz John Porter.

At last, after many trials and failures, Grant took a daring step. The troops with their supplies marched round through a network of lakes and streams to a point south of Vicksburg; Admiral Porter's gunboats and the transports along with them "ran" the batteries.

The troops of General Banks and the war vessels under Admiral Porter moved up the Red river, and on the 16th of March 1864 reached Alexandria.