Canton River
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Viscount Palmerston has sent a small map of the Canton River, which your Majesty may like to keep for future reference.
From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount
By them she was fitted out and employed on the Canton River during the disturbances between the imperialists and the insurgents.
From China by Boulger, Demetrius Charles
The British expedition against China had arrived at the mouth of the Canton River in June.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin
It was early in December that H. M. S. Perseus was cruising off the mouth of the Canton River.
From Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
Before this the Volage and Hyacinth, while lying in Canton River, had a sharp engagement with a fleet of war-junks, under the Chinese Admiral Kwang.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by Kingston, William Henry Giles
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
