Jamaica's largest city

Usage examples of kingston.

On July 11, 1944, Diefenbaker had read into Hansard a return of the call-up by mobilization districts, which showed that Kingston, Ontario, had fifteen times as many recruits as Quebec City, although the two areas had about the same population.

As soon as two other members of the squad had driven down from Kingston Crescent to babysit the flat in case the Scousers turned up, Winter and Suttle would escort Pullen to Central police station where, Winter explained, the Custody Sergeant had volunteered an empty cell.

Before Agatha had made these arrangements, Hamilton had made similar ones with the Duchess of Kingston, and I succeeded in getting an invitation.

I kissed her hand--for I had not got any farther than that--and began to ride towards Kingston.

Amongst the other strangers were Miss Chudleigh, now Duchess of Kingston, with a nobleman and a knight whose names I have forgotten.

Kingston is an important town, and is the port of the Rideau Canal, which connects Bytown and the Ottawa with Lake Ontario.

This celebrated Miss Chudleigh was maid of honour to the Princess Dowager of Wales, and afterwards became Duchess of Kingston.

He got passages for them both in one of the early banana boats sailing from Avonmouth to Kingston, Jamaica, which they both agreed would be a paradise of sunshine, good food, cheap drink, and a glorious haven from the gloom and restrictions and Labour Government of postwar England.

None of us will know anything for certain until Pa goes to Claypool and Son's in Kingston and finds out what messages Derek's sent back.

It might be in Kingston, there were, after all sixty thousand people in the city and townships and population density was directly proportional to how often a Keeper was needed, but it might be across the continent.

She returned the serve with a drop shot over the net that caught Kingston off balance.

The American did not look like the head of the DEA field station in Kingston, as Whittaker had expected.

A friend of mine, who lives at Kingston, went in there to buy a hat one day, and, in a thoughtless moment, put his hand in his pocket and paid for it then and there.

There was every reason why he should desire to make Kingston the junction point of the road he was now forced to build.

Dunlop had only the haziest sense of geography, having devoted all his last eight years to more profitable pursuits, but he guessed they were somewhere in the hills back of Kingston.