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  • adjective without a harbour

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harbour +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Menelaus, from the very day of thy start, didst drift to harbourless hills, far from thy country before the breath of the storm, bearing on thy ship a prize that was no prize, but a phantom made by Hera out of cloud for the Danai to struggle over.

    Helen 2008

  • Menelaus, from the very day of thy start, didst drift to harbourless hills, far from thy country before the breath of the storm, bearing on thy ship a prize that was no prize, but a phantom made by Hera out of cloud for the Danai to struggle over.

    Helen 2008

  • In a gabbard he barqued it, the boat of life, from the harbourless Ivernikan Okean, till he spied the loom of his landfall and he loosed two croakers from under his tilt, the gran Phenician rover.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • This northern coast of New Guinea is exposed to the full swell of the Pacific Ocean, and is rugged and harbourless.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • Suppose you saw in one view all the blood of the witnesses of Christ, which had been let out of their veins by vain pretences, -- that you heard in one noise the doleful cry of all pastorless churches, dying martyrs, harbourless children of parents inheriting the promise, wilderness-wandering saints, dungeoned believers, wrested out by pretended zeal to peace and truth; -- and perhaps it may make your spirits tender as to this point.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • We might spend a year in such a journey, and we should pass through many lands that are empty and harbourless.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • We might spend a year in such a journey, and we should pass through many lands that are empty and harbourless.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • Java connects with the outgoing boat from Batavia to Padang, a three days 'voyage through a chain of green islands breaking the force of the monsoon on a desolate and harbourless shore.

    Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

  • Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 Anonymous

  • Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous

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