harbour
noun
harbourless
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a word derived from
harbour.
Example Sentences
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We might spend a year in such a journey, and we should pass through many lands that are empty and harbourless.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
It was at La Paz that Merriam decided to land—La Paz the Beautiful, a little harbourless town smothered in a living green ribbon that banded the foot of a cloud-piercing mountain.
From Whirligigs by O. Henry
Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities.
From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville
Let him in, said the duchess, for I will see that knight, and for King Arthur's sake he shall not be harbourless.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
They knew the harbourless character of the African coast west of Egypt, and the dangers of the Lesser and Greater Syrtes.
From History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson
