The phrase "a harbour from" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express a place of refuge or safety, but it lacks context to be used effectively.
Example: "The island served as a harbour from the storm, providing shelter for the stranded boats."
Alternatives: "a refuge from" or "a shelter from".
The choice of venue, supporters said, would also have recognised the spectacular recent excavation of a harbour dating from the era of Emperor Theodosius, and the authorities' willingness to put parts of a metro-building project on hold for the benefit of archaeology.
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway had opened the previous year, and proved a remarkable success in abstracting traffic from the parallel canal, and indicated that longer distances, not merely feeders to a harbour or from a colliery, could be dealt with, and everywhere business people were considering where a railway might advantageously be built next.
There is also a good harbour, from which rubber, pepper, timber, rattan, cordage fibres, oil, gold, diamonds, coal, and iron are exported.
Oilmen once thought the North Sea a safe harbour from risks run in more exotic places, but successive tax grabs have changed their minds.
One of the important moral principles that has made everything we relish about the internet possible, from Wikipedia to YouTube, is that internet service providers need to have a safe harbour from what their users do.
Outside, in the real world, it's easy to see what appealed to the Spanish: a magnificent harbour from where ships could replenish before crossing the Atlantic to carry New World treasures to Europe.
This is a pity, since there is plenty to tempt in the region's largest town, from the walled centre with its cobbled squares, narrow streets and hidden restaurants to a handsome harbour from where boats depart to the islands of the Ria Formosa Natural Park.
A network of canals connected Bruges with the coast at Ostend and Zeebrugge, through which small warships such as destroyers, light cruisers and submarines could travel and find a safe harbour from which to launch raids into the English Channel and along the coasts of southeast England.
Could a practised eye, I wonder, tell a Stirk from a Harbour building?
