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harbourage
/ ˈhɑːbərɪdʒ /
noun
- shelter or refuge, as for a ship, or a place providing shelter
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That Rhoda herself might suffer in the process was an idea to which (if it occurred to him) he would give no harbourage.
It was the unworthier Philip, as he drove to Chelsea, who let these thoughts find harbourage in his mind.
It was in remembrance of the last spot in England to give them harbourage that New Plymouth was named.
An occasional small pond gives harbourage for a few wild-fowl, while wood-grouse, and in winter ptarmigan, are plentiful.
But her nature was too sweet, and her heart too full of gratitude, to allow long harbourage to any such thoughts.
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