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  • However it may be, I woke not in the familiar low room that was our dormitory, but in a cabin so small it was much higher than wide, a journeyman's cabin, and because I was the most junior of the journeymen, the least desirable in the tower, a portless cubbyhole no larger than a cell.

    The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

  • Wherefore he dwelleth in a home most rich in flocks by the fair-flowing lake of Bœbe; and to the tillage of his fields, and the extent of his plains, toward that dusky _part of the heavens_, where the sun stays his horses, makes the clime of the Molossians the limit, and holds dominion as far as the portless shore of the Ægean Sea at Pelion.

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • Yes, at San Ramon, a little portless place some way down the coast of Peru.

    Foe-Farrell Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Columbia, affords a protected anchorage on an otherwise portless shore, such inlets assume increased importance.

    Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

  • But at the sight of her bulging, portless sides and merchant rig a shout of exultation broke from amongst them, and in an instant they had swung round their fore-yard, and darting alongside they had grappled with her and flung a spray of shrieking, cursing ruffians upon her deck.

    The Last Galley Impressions and Tales Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Her arms were about him, her lips on his; and he who had, until now, been a portless derelict, who had vainly sought a haven in art, an anchorage in the service of God, had drifted at last into the world's most sheltered harbor -- a woman's love.

    The Moccasin Maker E. Pauline Johnson 1887

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