Lexic.us

Definition of Tampico

1. Noun. A port city in eastern Mexico.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tampico

Literary usage of Tampico

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Appletons' Guide to Mexico: Including a Chapter on Guatemala, and a Complete by Alfred Ronald Conkling (1884)
"Another is projected southward to Tampico. (See Section XII.) Leaving Bagdad, we sail southward, keeping out of sight of land almost all the way to Tampico. ..."

2. Appletons' Guide to Mexico: Including a Chapter on Guatemala, and a Complete by Alfred Ronald Conkling (1883)
"Another is projected southward to Tampico. (See Section XII.) Leaving Bagdad, we sail southward, keeping out- of sight of land almost all the way to Tampico ..."

3. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan (1917)
"CHAPTER XLVIII Return to Tampico and get shipwrecked on the bar — A squaw man who was a quack doctor — Find a lake of asphalt and strike oil — A precarious ..."

4. Notes on Mexico, Made in the Autumn of 1822: Accompanied by an Historical by Joel Roberts Poinsett (1824)
"Both this place and Tampico are sickly. Here bilious fevers prevail, and there yellow fever. We are rather inclined to take our chance of the former; ..."

5. Memoirs of a Maryland Volunteer: War with Mexico, in the Years 1846-7-8 by John Reese Kenly (1873)
"Tampico DISCHARGE FROM THE SERVICE, ETC. As the end of our term of service approached, various efforts were being made to induce the officers and men to ..."

6. Mexico, the Wonderland of the South by William English Carson (1909)
"CHAPTER XXVI TARPON FISHING AT Tampico ALTHOUGH the streams and rivers of Mexico have little to tempt the angler, the Gulf coast has become famous the world ..."

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