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In a former chapter we dealt with a child's mind as a harbourer of fancies, as subject to the illusive spell of its bright imagery.

From Children's Ways by Sully, James

And art thou now a harbourer of all kinds of vices? nay, dost thou play the capital Vice thyself?

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

The first was "The Countess of Huntingdon and Her Circle," that bearder of lightminded archbishops, that formidable harbourer of Wesleyan chaplains.

From Soul of a Bishop by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

As I knew the fellow to be an arrant harbourer of smugglers and rebels, I took his lamentation for what it was worth.

From Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 by Reed, Talbot Baines

In August 1584 a new turn was given to James’s policy by Arran, who was Protestant, if anything, in belief, and hoped to win over Elizabeth, the harbourer of all enemies of James. 

From A Short History of Scotland by Lang, Andrew