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Example sentences for "good harbour"

  • Pyrasus was a city with a good harbour, having at the distance of 2 stadia from it a grove, and a temple consecrated to Ceres.

  • Lampsacus, situated on the sea, is a considerable city with a good harbour, and, like Abydos, supports its state well.

  • Heracleia is a city with a good harbour, and of importance in other respects.

  • From Cape Deseado, the coast is high and unbroken for three miles; (a rocky islet lies about a mile from the shore) then there is an opening which probably leads into a good harbour behind a number of islands.

  • Next day, having passed beyond all these small isles, we found a good harbour which we named Port St Anthony.

  • On that day, the wind became so boisterous that one of our ships lost an anchor, and we had to run 7 or 8 leagues up the river for shelter, where we found a good harbour, in which we remained till the 25th July.

  • Half an hour before sunset, we came to an island called Shwarit, but passing onwards a quarter of a league we came to some shelves of sand and others of rock, and anchored between them in a good harbour called Sial.

  • Ooroop, or Nadeschda, according to the accounts of the Russians, will furnish the ships with a good harbour, where they may wood and water, and take in such other refreshments as the place may afford.

  • The first night we put into a good harbour, a few leagues to the southward of Wager's Island, where finding a large bitch big with puppies, we regaled upon them.

  • Lieutenant Bowen had stood into a bay on this coast, which has been mentioned as promising a good harbour, and of which he gave the following particulars.

  • It is seventeen leagues long, and has a city on the coast, with a good harbour called Ribiera Grande, or the Great River, now St Jago.

  • These people were much caressed by Cortes; who afterwards sent ten pilots to examine the coast, but they could find no good harbour, after a survey of seventy leagues.

  • Copenhagen; has a good harbour; the scene of Shakespeare's "Hamlet.

  • Ceylon; there is a good harbour, but the shipping, which at one time was extensive, has declined since the rise of Colombo.

  • We now made sail for the island; and, presently after, discovered a small inlet which had the appearance of being a good harbour.

  • As we drew nearer the shore we discovered a creek, which had the appearance of being a good harbour, formed by a low point or peninsula, projecting out to the north.

  • Mr Pickersgill reported, upon his return, that he had found a good harbour, with every conveniency.

  • Point Jackson, and which appears to be a good harbour) S.

  • It has a good harbour, is the outlet for the produce of several fertile valleys, and the starting-point of a railway which penetrates into the Sahara.

  • Sonderburg, the capital, with a good harbour and a considerable trade, is connected with the mainland by a pontoon bridge.

  • Table Bay is a good harbour in summer, but not in winter; so that the Dutch will not permit any of their vessels to lie here longer than the 15th of May, which answers to our November.

  • The bay under this cape is a good harbour, when the wind is westerly.

  • We had no sooner got off the cape, than we observed the coast, to the southward, to be much indented by projecting points and bays; so that we now made sure of soon finding a good harbour.

  • As before mentioned, the Fitzroy River falls into Keppel Bay, and forms a good harbour, though much encumbered with sand banks.

  • It has about 30 miles of coast, but no good harbour and no navigable river.

  • The Bar itself is but half a Cable's Length over, and then you are in 7 or 8 Fathom Water; a good Harbour.

  • You have a fair Channel over the Bar, and two Fathom thereon, and a good Harbour in five or six Fathom to come to an Anchor.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good harbour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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