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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unharbour.
  • adjective obsolete Offering no harbour or shelter.

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Examples

  • Today instead we are a conjured-up phantom on a solitary screen, a pseudonymous and unharboured email address, a disembodied voice that can be summoned by anyone, day and night, like a spirit at a séance.

    Fame by Daniel Kehlman, translated by Carol Brown Janeway Alberto Manguel 2010

  • A hart of the second year, which was in the same cover with the proper object of their pursuit, chanced to be unharboured first, and broke cover very near where the Lady Emma and her brother were stationed.

    Waverley 2004

  • In Spenshaw he unharboured a stag, and he followed him hard.

    The Forest Lovers Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • A hart of the second year, which was in the same cover with the proper object of their pursuit, chanced to be unharboured first, and broke cover very near where the Lady Emma and her brother were stationed.

    The Waverley 1877

  • In the case of finding an outlying fallow-deer, which is unharboured, in this manner, great sport is frequently obtained; but this is now rarely to be met with in

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • In the case of finding an outlying fallow-deer, which is unharboured, in this manner, great sport is frequently obtained; but this is now rarely to be met with in

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • At last they arrived at that part of the park where Sandpit Gate is now situated, and pursuing a path bordered by noble trees, a fine buck was suddenly unharboured, upon which Henry gave orders to the huntsmen and others to follow him, adding that he himself should proceed to Snow

    Windsor Castle William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

  • A hart of the second year, which was in the same cover with the proper object of their pursuit, chanced to be unharboured first, and broke cover very near where the Lady Emma and her brother were stationed.

    Waverley Walter Scott 1801

  • A hart of the second year, which was in the same cover with the proper object of their pursuit, chanced to be unharboured first, and broke cover very near where the Lady Emma and her brother were stationed.

    Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • A hart of the second year, which was in the same cover with the proper object of their pursuit, chanced to be unharboured first, and broke cover very near where the Lady Emma and her brother were stationed.

    Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801

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