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To harbours

verb

Standard spelling of harbor

  • The docks, which once harboured tall ships, now harbour only petty thieves.

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The description issued to harbours, airports and police was : 5 ft, 8 in; proportionate build; oval face; swarthy; hazel eyes.

"As scavengers," he wrote in "The Herring Gull's World," "the gulls come to harbours and towns, where they devour refuse, often of the most appalling kind".

Buoys are used to mark safe channels, important reference points, approaches to harbours, isolated dangers and wrecks, and areas of special significance.

Seiches may disturb shipping by generating strong reversible currents at the entrances to harbours or by causing moored vessels to oscillate against their mooring cables and break free.

India has long worried about the growing access of China's navy to harbours in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and the Maldives, seeing a strategic challenge in the Indian Ocean.

The demands called for confirmation of Japan's railway and mining claims in Shandong province; granting of special concessions in Manchuria; Sino-Japanese control of the Han-Ye-Ping mining base in central China; access to harbours, bays, and islands along China's coast; and Japanese control, through advisers, of Chinese financial, political, and police affairs.

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Stethoscopes were consistently shown to harbour bacteria.

To harbour a creature like that!

Europe continues to harbour virulent antisemitism.

And Roddick was never one to harbour self-doubt.

Nor do their leaders appear to harbour democratic ambitions.

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