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Sentences ending with harbour

The litters and your tottering gait would betray everything if we were to enter the boat anywhere else in the great harbour. [10]
Ordering the sailors who were preparing to accompany him to remain on shore, he stretched the sail with a practised hand, and ran out towards the mouth of the harbour. [10]
It was worth while to learn what had induced her to turn back just before reaching the harbour. [10]
They'd be knocked to smithereens before they could get into the quiet waters of the harbour. [11]
At the same time thundering plaudits echoed from the walls of the fortifications and broke, sometimes rising, sometimes falling, against the ships and masts in the calm water of the harbour. [10]
The report of the successful issue of the first naval battle was believed, and many desired to greet the victorious fleet and hail their sovereign as she entered the harbour. [10]
On one of the other vessels was an officer who had years before explored this harbour. [11]
You've only tasted the life in harbour. [11]
We travel along the coast for one day; and then a great storm of snow come, and the captain say to me: 'Steer us into harbour. [11]
Misfortune followed us out of Sydney harbour. [11]

Sentences containing harbour two or more times

He advised the admiral not to enter the harbour, for the indications foretold a gale, and himself was not sure that his chart was in all respects correct, for the harbour had been hurriedly explored and sounded. [11]

More example sentences with the word harbour in them

He and the woman he loved, who had first become really his own during a time of sore privation, had run into the harbour and gazed quietly at the storms of life. [10]
All the galleys which had escaped from the battle had entered the harbour the day before, wreathed with garlands as if a great victory had been won. [10]
You were ill when it left the harbour, garlanded with flowers and adorned with purple sails. [10]
In the harbour were the men-of-war of all nations, and Arab dhows sailed slowly in, laden with pilgrims for Mecca--masses of picturesque sloth and dirt--and disease also; for more than one vessel flew the yellow flag. [11]
Though the waves were running high, even in the sheltered harbour, they scarcely rocked the massive vessel. [10]
But, whenever Pyrrhus went to market, letters reached the island delivered at the fish auction in the harbour by Anukis, Charmian's Nubian maid, to the old freedman, who had become her close friend. [10]
Yes, out we went through the harbour of Kingston, beyond the splendid defences of Port Royal and the men-of-war there, past the Palisadoes and Rock Fort, and away to the place of treasure-trove. [11]
The other harbour was devoted to commerce, but, in order to prevent the spread of false reports, newly arrived ships were forbidden to enter. [10]
The little tablet was accompanied by a second, which, in the Regent's name, authorized the bearer to have the harbour chains raised anywhere, to go out into the open sea and return without interference. [10]
Sometimes all gazed toward the mouth of the harbour, where the expected ship must soon pass the recently completed masterpiece of Sostratus, the towering lighthouse, still shining in its marble purity. [10]
I might have told her then that the 'Porcupine' was in the harbour at Aden, but I felt that things would work out to due ends without my help--which, indeed, they began to do immediately. [11]
A mountain seemed to weigh upon the watchers' breasts, for the wooden monster which now entered the little harbour moved forward as slowly and silently as a spectral ship. [10]
After accompanying Dion to the harbour, the architect had gone to the Forum to converse with the men he met there, and learn what they feared and expected in regard to the future fate of the city. [10]
But I wished to see the harbour of the great commercial city, and the ships which ploughed the ocean to those distant lands for which I had often longed. [10]
When he was to guide the reed in the counting-house, he sketched; when he was sent to the harbour to direct the loading of the ships, he became absorbed in gazing at the statues placed there. [10]
There was no time to see the interior of the building, for Pyrrhus expected his guest to join him at the harbour at sunrise, and the eastern sky was already brightening with the approach of dawn. [10]
The next morning the sun poured a wealth of radiant light upon the desert, the green water of the harbour, and the gray and yellow walls of the border fortress. [10]
The reply of the mutineers was to row into Sheerness harbour and take away with them eight gunboats lying there, each of which fired a shot at the fort, as if to announce that the mutineers were now the avowed enemies of the government. [11]
It swept across the island, levelled forests of cocoa palms, battered villages to pieces, caught that little fleet in the harbour, and played with it in a horrible madness. [11]
Before them stretched the harbour, dotted with sails; men-of-war lay at anchor, among them the little Ruby, Commander Dibbs's cruiser. [11]
Guards were watching the harbour, and a band of Syrian horsemen had just passed from the barracks in the southern part of the Lochias to the Temple of Poseidon. [10]
I sail up the harbour at New York twenty years ago and see that Liberty shining in the sun, I think so, yes. [9]
True, even at the great harbour, news could scarcely be expected, for a chain stretching from the end of the Pharos to a cliff directly opposite in the Alveus Steganus, closed the narrow opening. [10]
The property of the freedman Pyrrhus was a flat rock in the northern part of the harbour, scarcely larger than the garden of Didymus at the Corner of the Muses, a desolate spot where neither tree nor blade of grass grew. [10]
The hall in the centre of the private roadstead of the royal harbour, where they had assembled, was furnished with regal magnificence; for it was a favourite resort of the Queen. [10]
I had seen the British flag from the coral- bulwarked harbour, but could not find it now. [11]
In another spot, still close to the harbour, he saw the large buildings consecrated to the worship of the Syrian Baal and Astarte. [10]
The boat leaving St. Heliers harbour was a new yawl-rigged craft owned by Jean Touzel. [11]
The Epicurus would soon reach the mouth of the harbour, and after landing he must again leave Archibius. [10]
Yet, when still several miles from the mouth of the harbour at the Pharos, it was evident that the Rhodian helmsman in the island tavern had predicted truly; for the weather changed with unusual speed, and the wind now blew from the north. [10]
He has already sent Philotas--his pupil, who finds and unrolls his books--a dozen times to inquire the cause of the tumult outside; but I replied that the crowds were flocking to the harbour on account of the Queen. [10]
As the vessel rode up the harbour the body was dropped into the deep. [11]
He represented how quickly the harbour could be reached from his island, that fish were brought thence from it daily, and he would therefore always have news of what was passing. [10]
That day Iberville, protesting helplessly, was ordered away to France on a man-of-war, which had rocked in the harbour of Quebec for a month awaiting his return. [11]
The hounds are outside the harbour now, Michael. [11]
As we moved out of the harbour we passed close to the 'Porcupine' and saw its officers grouped on the deck, waving adieus to some one on our deck, whom I guessed, of course, to be Galt Roscoe. [11]
He had heard of the treachery of the fleet while entering a hired boat with the freedman in the harbour of Eunostus, Pyrrhus's having been detained with the other craft before the Temple of Poseidon. [10]
But by reason of the storm and the fighting, and drifting out of their course, they had lost ten days; and thus it was they reached the harbour a few hours after the Bridgwater Merchant and the Swallow had left. [11]
In the harbour of the neighbouring seaport Tanis they went aboard of the commandant's state galley, one of the largest and finest in the royal fleet, where a banquet awaited them. [10]
On the deck of the little craft which had entered the harbour when the vesper bell was ringing stood a man who waved a hand up towards her, then gave a peculiar call. [11]
Summon the captain of the harbour and his chief counsellors, the heads of the war office, the superintendent of the fortifications on land and water, especially the Aristarch and Gorgias--I want to see them. [10]
During the drive--by no means a long one--to the great harbour, he strove to collect his thoughts. [10]
On the neat Netherland ship which bore him homeward matters were better; nay, while running into the harbour of Antwerp he had jested almost in his old reckless manner. [10]
It was only necessary to tear down some small buildings belonging to the Crown and a little temple of Berenike at the southern part of the royal harbour. [10]
As in her mental maze she sat panting her way to enlightenment, she saw Guida's boat entering the little harbour. [11]
The pennons and masts of the fleet which was about to set sail from the harbour seemed steeped in a sea of golden light. [10]
An independent person like himself could often learn more than the chief of the harbour police, with all his ships and men. [10]
Over to the left, on the opposite side of the harbour, were wide bungalows shining in the sun, and flanking the side of the ancient aqueduct, the gigantic tomb of an Arab sheikh. [11]
Here the galleys lay at anchor, not in the harbour of Eunostus, which was separated from the other by the broad, bridge-like dam of the Heptastadium, that united the city and the island of Pharos. [10]
The victim is lashed by his wrists to a capstan-bar in the ship's long-boat, and all the ship's boats are lowered also, and each ship in harbour sends a boat manned by marines to attend. [11]
He managed to land on the shore below the harbour, and then, with a rope round him, essayed to reach the flag- ship from the beach. [11]
One vessel made its way out--on it was the officer who had surveyed the harbour. [11]
The wind had increased to a gale, and as she stood on the rocks the harbour below her was full of tossing white yachts straining at their anchors. [9]
Silence also reigned in the little island diagonally opposite to the harbour. [10]
Hawk, then lying in the harbour. [9]
No vessel lay in the harbour, therefore it was probable Gering was not there. [11]
A vessel was in the harbour, and his delight was keen. [11]
She had been ill for a week before nearing Kingston, and when the Regent reached the harbour she was in a bad way. [11]
Oh!--" This exclamation, I thought, was caused by the voice of the quartermaster humming: "I'm a-sailing, I'm a-sailing on the sea, To a harbour where the wind is still"-- Almost immediately she said: "I think I will go below. [11]
The tempest swept howling from the north across the island of Pharos, and the shallows of Diabathra in the great harbour of Alexandria. [10]
Why should the hour of departure from such a harbour of peace be celebrated? [9]
The carriage bore him swiftly to the great harbour. [10]
Entering New York harbour with a single vessel showed in a strong light Iberville's bold, almost reckless, courage. [11]
He knew the harbour well, and saw that the Cormorant had gone to a new anchorage, not the same as British men-of-war took formerly. [11]
They're outside the harbour now, and I intend to use them. [11]
It was Dion hailing him from a boat tossing near the mouth of the harbour on the waves surging in from the turbulent sea. [10]
All the idlers had thronged to the Bruchium and the harbour to see the returning ships of the vanquished fleet, hear something new, witness the demonstrations of joy, the sacrifices and processions, and--if Fortune favoured--meet the Queen and relieve their overflowing hearts by acclamations. [10]
The great ship had slowed down and was entering the harbour, carefully threading her way amongst smaller craft, the passengers lining the rails and gazing at the animated scene, at the quaint and cheerful French city bathed in sunlight.... [9]
When the boats had gone farther out into the harbour the question of finding a home for the philosopher and his family was discussed. [10]
Meanwhile the anchor had been raised, and the Hornet was moving towards the harbour mouth. [11]
Might I not go to the harbour and await him there? [10]
Count Frontenac would gladly cut months from his calendar to know you ceased to harbour one who can prove no friend," was the reply. [11]
The Regent was gazing mutely at the ground; Iras, pale and absent-minded, was listening to Zeno's statements; and Archibius had gone out of doors, and, unheeding the storm, was looking across the tossing waves of the harbour for the expected ships. [10]
In the border fortress the artist was again obliged to exercise patience, for no ship bound to Pergamus or Lesbos could be found in the harbour. [10]
Others, too, had fancied that they had seen sails, and Dion would gladly have gone out to sea to investigate, but he was entirely alone in a frail hired boat, and this would not have been permitted to pass beyond the harbour. [10]
The wind was falling, the harbour quieting for the night, and across the waters, to the tones of a trumpet, the red bars of the battleship's flag fluttered to the deck. [9]
The expectation that every road would be open to Archibius had not deceived him, and the harbour chain was drawn aside for the Epicurus. [10]
Before the ship entered the harbour, the artist had had a large goblet of unmixed wine given to him, that he might conquer the emotion that had overpowered him. [10]
That evening they entered the harbour at Colombo; and Hall going to his cabin to seek his wife, could not find her; but in her stead was her hair, arranged carefully in flowing waves on the pillow, where through the voyage her head had lain. [11]
From end to end there was no harbour upon this southern side. [11]
The Roman and Egyptian fleet returned to the harbour as one vast squadron under the same commander, and anchored in the roadstead of the city, which was now its precious booty. [10]
The Regent was doing everything in his power to ascertain the truth; but he (Archibius) was aware of the distrust of the government, and everything connected with it, felt by the sailors and all the seafaring folk at the harbour. [10]
While for several days the harbour of Alexandria had been closed, vessels were permitted to enter Pelusium, and all captains of newly arrived ships and caravans were compelled to report to Beryllus's master, the commandant of the important frontier fortress. [10]
As the bells clanged to "slow down" on entering the harbour, his eyes opened with a gaze of sanity and consciousness. [11]
And so they came into a deep forest, and by fortune they were nighted, and rode along in a deep way, and at the last they came into a courtelage where abode the duke of South Marches, and there they asked harbour. [5]
Below in the cabin Phips and Bucklaw were deep in the chart of the harbour and the river. [11]
This was proved by the shouts and cheers of the people, who, spite of the storm, were still moving to and fro near the harbour. [10]
With a favourable breeze he got away agreeably, and was clear of the harbour and cleaving northwards before sunset--the Swallow leading the treasure-ship like a pilot. [11]
As the Hardi Biaou was leaving the harbour of St. Heliers, Jean told Guida that Mr. Dow was to join them on the return journey. [11]
Meanwhile, from far beyond that yellow lane of light running out from Golden Gate, there came a vessel, sailing straight for harbour. [11]
There is peace between your colony and ours--is it fair to harbour such a wretch in your court-yard? [11]
To the first belonged the processions of priests, who, with images of the gods, consecrated vessels, and caskets of relics, took their places at the edge of the harbour. [10]
It had not been expected so early, but was already passing the islands into the great harbour. [10]
Then she drew back shivering, for the rattle of the heavy chain, which was drawn aside from the opening of the harbour, echoed with an uncanny sound through the silence of the night. [10]
But the officers at the signal station did not know that, and simply telegraphed to the harbour, in reply to the signals from the corvette, that a British man-of-war was coming. [11]
When they arrived at the dock at Liverpool, the Aphrodite was just making into the harbour. [11]
The house sits, as it were, in the emperor's seat of the amphitheatre of the town, overlooking the panorama of a perfect harbour. [9]
And the life and movement there and in the inland harbour on Lake Mareotis, where the Nile boats land! [10]
You got it; and almost in your own harbour I found you, and fought you and a greater ship with you, and ran you down. [11]
But--goose that I am!--then they would not be received here, but in the royal harbour at the Lochias. [10]

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