Example Sentences

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In the young the organ contains an abundance of lymphoid tissue, which renders it a particularly good harborer for germs.

From Time Magazine Archive

This Bridge is a notorious confederate and harborer of horse-thieves and counterfeiters.

From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by Bryant, William Cullen

The post-office is a harborer of secrets and romance.

From A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Murdock, Charles A. (Charles Albert)

Not alone because of Isabel, as there a harborer now, but because of two dependent and most strange coincidences which that day's experience had brought to him.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

The dream is a mechanism for letting the cat out of the bag, all kinds of strange cats, of the existence of which their harborer was often unaware.

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various