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Example sentences for "harboured"

Lexicographically close words:
harboring; harborow; harbors; harbour; harbourage; harbouring; harbours; hard; harde; hardely
  1. He harboured Richelieu with despairing resolution because he believed that France could not maintain its existence without the hated ministry.

  2. The only thing astonishing was that Mademoiselle had harboured the idea of forsaking the world.

  3. As Mademoiselle said: "No one would confess that he had ever harboured an intention against the King; it was always some one else whom he or she had opposed.

  4. Unhappily it was soon noised abroad that the anger of James was more strongly excited against those who harboured rebels than against the rebels themselves.

  5. He had never, he protested, on the faith of a dying man, harboured the thought of committing such villany.

  6. And Don Diego OrdoƱez answered, The Castillians have lost their Lord; the traitor Vellido slew for him, being his vassal, and ye of Zamora have received Vellido and harboured him within your walls.

  7. That night they harboured at a husbandman's cot, where was no room save for the two women, and the men lay out under the bare heaven, but all was done that might be for the easement of the Maiden.

  8. I had harboured him in Rome and provided for his costs, while he had turned my whole house upside down; for the man was subject to a species of dry scab, which he was always in the habit of scratching with his hands.

  9. A certain desolate feeling, too large and deep in all its issues to be harboured long in her slight nature, came over her now and then.

  10. But his mind harboured none of the common Protestant rules and shibboleths.

  11. Refuse, and a strict search shall instantly be made, and woe to the wretch, who has harboured the traitor!

  12. Yes, father, that stranger you have harboured as a guest, is a republican, and Seaton has been acting as his spy.

  13. The hope of an early release, harboured at first by his family and friends, had died away.

  14. I could not understand it, lacking the wit to see that this queer mood sprang from the blow I had dealt her, and was the outward manifestation of her own pain at the shattering of the illusions she had harboured concerning myself.

  15. She looked up into my face so sadly and wistfully that my suspicions fell from me upon the instant, and I reddened from shame at having harboured them.

  16. And it is to be known that oftentimes a deer is harboured by sight of man's eye, but who should do it well it behoves him to be a skilful and wise hunter.

  17. Master of the Game could judge if the man had harboured a warrantable deer (see Appendix: Slot and Trace).

  18. Deer, wild boar, bear and wolves were thus harboured by means of a limer.

  19. Thus, if he returned later, the hunter would know if any beast had broken from or taken to covert since he harboured his stag in the morning.

  20. If a deer was harboured in a good country for hunting he was also called "En belle meute" (D'Yauville, voc.

  21. But he should go a little way off the paths on one side or the other, until he (the hart) be within his turn, for then he is most securely harboured and the search shall be shorter.

  22. And when he is harboured of the scantilon and of all other things do as before is said, and then draw fast to the meeting that men call assembly.

  23. It was in this sense that the "Seneschal de Normandye" answers the question of his royal mistress about the stag he himself had harboured that morning; he tells her the stag was En belle meute et pays fort.

  24. Hath not England harboured and entertained Papists, priests, and Jesuits in its bosom?

  25. God truly said to reign in us when no worldly thing is harboured and haunted in our souls, saith Theophylact,(12) since also the wisdom of the flesh is enmity against God, Rom.

  26. Flaxman's Epicureanism, the easy tolerance with which, now that the effervescence of his youth had subsided, the man harboured and dallied with a dozen contradictory beliefs, were at times peculiarly antipathetic to Elsmere.

  27. And during a strange brief lull of feeling the mind harboured image and expectation alike with perfect calm.

  28. On a morning in June 1582 one of the corps intended to reinforce Hideyoshi's army marched out of Kameyama under the command of Akechi Mitsuhide, who either harboured a personal grudge against Nobunaga or was swayed by blind ambition.

  29. Possibly it would be unjust to say that all the leaders of the great southern clan harboured that idea.

  30. Long since she had ceased to wonder whether Norbert harboured any suspicions concerning his friend's brief holiday in the south of France.

  31. They were covered with yellow and purple lupins, miniature jungles which harboured nothing more sanguinary than the gopher and the cotton-tail.

  32. There was no room for them to be harboured in the monastery, so they must come along with the Young Lovell.

  33. Then Sir Launcelot asked her where he might be harboured that night.

  34. He and a policeman had sought entrance to the building, which presumably harboured the assassin--and mountain men had halted him at the door, under the leadership of one to whom the rest deferred.

  35. She knows well I would tear her limb from limb if she harboured even a thought of his love; and she is faithful too.

  36. He had money, he was accused, and as he had harboured one of the reformed, he was burned alive.

  37. They had visited her first, for Cromwell had evidently known of Randall's haunts; they had turned her little house upside down, and had threatened her hotly in case she harboured a disloyal spy, who deserved hanging.

  38. Set your mind to live merrily, in the name of God and good folks; let no other cark nor care be harboured within the sacrosanctified domicile of your celestial brain.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "harboured" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.