False shores and false harbourswere ye taught by the good.
It harbours such a multitude of distresses, such a conflict of right and wrong--the purposes of nature stand confused, instincts go haltingly along the streets, conscience and reasonings are stunned between stone walls.
Swallow, I was the more desirous to take that rout from his having found two very accessable harbours in New Ireland, where we hoped to get a supply of water.
It will be sufficient to say that he found in general a barren, unpromising country, with very few exceptions; and, were it even better, the want of harbours would render it less valuable.
Thereby Leif Ericson becomes the personification of the first ocean-voyager in history, who deliberately and with a settled plan steered straight across the open Atlantic, without seeking to avail himself of harbours on the way.
It was without harbours and there were long strands and stretches of sand.
This great sandy island may be compared with Furðustrandir, where there were no harbours and it was difficult to land.
Many of the less frequented bays and harbours in our colonial possessions are frequented by whales and cetaceans of various kinds; and we have seen exciting chases even within the limits of the anchorage in Table Bay.
But in the meanwhile understand that any one who henceforth harbours under his roof the said William of Nassau Prince of Orange, or assists or aids him to leave this city, is guilty of rebellion, and will be punished with death.
Seigniors, all of you who know that accursed city, bring me proof that sheharbours Orange or his troops!
He ordered the harbours of the Continent to be closed against the British, so that they could not carry on trade or sell their manufactures.
But on the sea-coast, wherever there are harbours for shipping, they build permanent villages on a very primitive scale.
Soon after we entered an harbour of much greater extent, which I called Port Egmont, in honour of the earl, who was then first lord of the Admiralty; and I think it is one of the finest harbours in the world.
The country in general is woody and mountainous, with many vallies intermixed; several small rivers flow from the interior part of the country into the sea, and there are many harbours upon the coast.
While we lay here, I sent the boat out to examine the harbours upon the coast, from one of which expeditions she returned with a load of cocoa-nuts, which she procured in a fine little harbour, about four leagues W.
Having accomplished this affair, he filled all the harbours and shores from Salona to Oricum with his fleets.
In spite of the sharks the negroes in all these harbours are ready to dive for coins, and accidents seldom happen to them, because the noise they make during the proceedings gets on the nerves of even these wolves of the sea.
Hers a twin-rock, unknown but to the shipmaster; Which harbours him alone, all other splitteth.
Leaving this place, we proceeded along the shore to the westward, and found other harbours which I had not time to look into.
Ulloa says, "This island hath two harbours capable of receiving ships of the greatest burden; one is on the north side, and the other is on the N.
If their situation has natural advantages, with projecting capes or promontories which curve or return inwards by their natural conformation, such harbours are obviously of the greatest service.
The subject of the usefulness of harbours is one which I must not omit, but must explain by what means ships are sheltered in them from storms.
Numerous small islands are scattered in its immediate vicinity, particularly along the northern coast, and contribute, with the projecting points and headlands inclosing the different bays, to form harbours of various capacities.
We may trace the beginnings of the seaport towns, Dublin, Limerick, Waterford and Wexford, to the forts built by them near the large harbours in the ninth and tenth centuries.
The Scandinavians also made marked advances on the old methods of trading by building their forts near the large harbours and carrying on from there a continuous overseas commerce.
The Ruins of the Abby are scattered up and down on every Side, and half covered with Ivy and Elder-Bushes, the Harbours of several solitary Birds which seldom make their Appearance till the Dusk of the Evening.
If anyone harbours in his house a runaway male or female slave from the palace or the house of a noble, and does not bring them out at the command of the majordomo, the master of the house shall be put to death.
I had fulfilled the king’s command, for I brought him all kinds of commodities, which I had found in the harbours of the sacred country.
In the Franco-German War of 1870 the French navy had such a decided superiority that the few German warships of the day were kept in their harbours protected by batteries and sunken mines.
The rest dispersed to the harbours of Italy and the Ionian islands.
Again Japan protested against the use of French harbours by her enemy.
Some thought it might have gone to the harbours of Norway and Denmark to winter and refit there, and renew the attempt next spring.
His fleet crowded the ports of Tarentum (Taranto) and Brundusium (Brindisi), and minor detachments were wintering in the smaller harbours of southern Italy.
In vain Themistocles urged that it should go further, and if it failed to find the enemy's fleet, at least show itself in the harbours of Asia and try to rouse Ionia to revolt.
The blockade of a place without harbours could no longer be kept up; and the men would either escape by the siege being abandoned, or would watch for bad weather and sail out in the boats that brought in their corn.
Above all, it gave her most distinctly to understand that war might be prevented by the revocation of the Megara decree, excluding the Megarians from the use of Athenian harbours and of the market of Athens.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "harbours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
