harbourer
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a word derived from
harbour.
Example Sentences
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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 James Sully
Although he was older than his sister, Mrs. Yellam, and past sixty, he still ran afoot with the hounds, and earned handsome tips as an independent harbourer of deer.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell
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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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 Talbot Baines Reed
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 George Saintsbury