How To Use Harbour In A Sentence
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The snowy dome of Fujisan reddening in the sunrise rose above the violet woodlands of Mississippi Bay as we steamed out of Yokohama Harbour on the 19th, and three days later I saw the last of Japan — a rugged coast, lashed by a wintry sea.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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Yet the Browns harbour no bitterness towards Waugh over the destruction of their business.
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The Minister was asked particularly whether the Tauranga Harbour Bridge could be tolled under this proposal.
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At first I was minded to send a boat after them, but by this time the rafts were a good two miles beyond the harbour, and Mrs. Purchase said, 'No, they can do no good, poor dears; let them have their few hours' pleasure. '
Shining Ferry
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The old ship has been lying up in the harbour for a month.
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In response to a question from Séamus Cosaí Fitzgerald the harbour master, Brian Farrell, said that the proposed charges were in line with current fees in other ports.
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Ten of us broke the ice across the harbour with our feet and glided our boats out into the liquid waters beyond.
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For the Out Skerries comprise a group of three little islands which are conveniently arranged to form a perfect natural harbour.
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The ferries, warships, water taxis, huge container vessels, yachts and fishing tinnies ply with impunity one of the greatest anchorages and working harbours in the world.
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From his position on the cliff top, he had a good view of the harbour.
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I first used them in an essay on Pope John XXIII, who believed the Church was like a ship that belonged at sea - not harboured in safe havens.
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The woman, apart from being a lawyer, has a Master's degree in Chemistry, was the first ever female harbourmaster in Canada and the first ever female CEO of a Port Authority in Canada, and is now a Cabinet minister.
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The 1.1-acre site has access to a small bathing area and harbour enclosed by a concrete pier and a breakwater.
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They will watch harbouring their guilty secret.
Times, Sunday Times
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Colin Howes, Keeper of Environmental Records at Doncaster Museum, says there are many problems with the legend, not least of which is the location of the woodland which harboured the wild cat.
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More than one captain made up his mind then and there that his "cobble" or his "mule," as they term the different classes of boats, would remain in the harbour till the storm had passed.
Dracula
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Fishing boats and pleasure - craft followed the great liner into the harbour.
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I would like to know then if I would be allowed to launch my boat in the harbour and leave my car there for safe keeping as I had to buy my licence for my boat at Portnet.
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The harbour has both a commercial quayside and marina which was crowded with expensive yachts and cruisers.
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In any kind of breeze they smoke like a forest fire, sending clouds of grey dust over the moored yachts and into harbourside streets.
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To the uninitiated, Orkney's Scapa Flow harbour is one square mile of untroubled, glassy water.
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It is moored in the harbour and features good-value food and live jazz on Sundays.
The Sun
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Recently, while vacationing on Harbour Island in the Bahamas, I visited my friend "chic Al," who was very definitely and very successfully working her pareo.
Covering a Multitude of Beach Sins
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He did not disappoint us - the spectacular display of fire and colour, reflected in the harbour, was absolutely beyond words.
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Besides, it's not healthy to harbour secret feelings for a guy.
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But there was no apparent reason for anybody to harbour idle curiosity about this particular backwater.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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It seems we would rather harbour war criminals than shelter innocent human beings from inhumane regimes.
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The city is home to the world's first harbour bridge bungee jump.
The Sun
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The tide was lapping the harbour wall.
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They acted as an anchorage for the stanchions which, standing on the seabed, supported the harbours.
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The British fleet is now long gone from Malta: in 1979, H.M.S. London sailed out of Valletta harbour and the link between the Royal Navy and Malta came to an end.
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Most writers harbour a modest ambition for their work to live on after their deaths.
Times, Sunday Times
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Self-regulation can work if there is both a default rule urging for its fine tuning (via contract), and a common sharing of values upon which to build the needed exceptions and safe harbours.
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The Fife coast harbours many insects which are rare elsewhere in Britain.
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There are various boat rides on offer from the harbour too, if you want to try out your sea legs.
The Sun
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Salamanca Place, site of an outstanding craft market and multifarious activity, lies beside the harbour.
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They were now near the east end of the north coast of Cuba, and they stood in to a harbour which the Admiral called Santa Catalina, and which is now called Cayo de Moa.
Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete
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Van Hoven said the animals, including roan antelope, eland, reedbuck, waterbuck and maybe even cheetah, will be taken from where they are captured by road to the Walvis Bay harbour in Namibia.
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A pair of superb documentaries offers visitors to Harbourfront Centre's Beats, Breaks & Culture festival of electronic music a chance to geek out whenever they're not enslaved to rhythms elsewhere.
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I looked out across Poole Harbour, searching for the dolphin as directed by the local old salt.
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On April 4th at about 4 o'clock in the evening, the Dupleix anchored in Pondicherry harbour.
Aurchlives, Aehton, and April flower
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Frank Debenham, T. Griffith T.ylor, T.yggve Gran and P.O. Robert Forde, the Second Western Party, set out from Cape Evans on December 14, 1911, to geologize in the area of Granite Harbour, and they built a rock shelter that they called Granite House, a name they took from a Jules Verne story.
Terra Incognita
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The foursome will also attend a four day training camp at Coffs Harbour to fine tune team tactics prior to the championships.
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You seem to be harbouring some resentment against your boss.
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The boat slips sleepily down the harbour, until it rounds the breakwater and the wind catches its sail.
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Or tying up in the harbour at Monaco for a champagne knees-up with the yachting set?
Times, Sunday Times
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They have accused the countries of this region of "harbouring" the ANC ...
INTERVIEW TO MAPUTO RADIO, NOVEMBER 3, 1986 (1)
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He will later go sailing on Auckland Harbour in a New Zealand America's Cup yacht and have a traditional indigenous Maori "hangi" meal cooked in a pit in the ground.
Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
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The bulk cargo handling facilities for our inland harbours are considerably underdeveloped.
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Perhaps someday it will return to Victoria's inner harbour and enlighten the city with approbatory friendly fire in greedy pursuit of our oil, gas, and fresh water.
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A man who allegedly stole a pair of socks from the clothes line of a harbourside home will face court today.
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We load and unload cargo ships at harbours.
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Where once the harbour might have had a currach or two tied up, the inlet is now festooned with yachts and dinghies and motor boats and punts of all shapes and sizes.
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Boats of every description were entering the harbour.
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On my first dive with new digital camera housing in South Harbour at the Poor Knights Islands I encounter a striped boarfish with a long-finned boarfish.
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Transport now includes harbour ferries, and ferries or barges on rivers or lakes.
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Most properties offer harbour views and have eco features such as low-energy lighting.
Times, Sunday Times
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(Henry was silent.) “Where did you part from him?” continued Bothwell; “was it in the highway, or did you give him harbourage in this very house?”
Old Mortality
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We did dinghy drill in the harbour and this usually finished with us swimming around in the beautifully clear waters of this sheltered haven.
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If Feely had a grudge he might well reckon it would be credible to put it round she'd harboured a well-known Shinner.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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Motoring organisations have long harboured concerns about the way the price of petrol at the pump is set.
Times, Sunday Times
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To the seaward, that is from the smaller harbour westwards, Sebastopol and its approaches were thoroughly fortified.
A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878
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Rain or shine, every morning he walks down the fishing harbour jetty to feed the crows.
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The Statue of Liberty towers above the harbour of New York.
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I like the heritage aspect - that from day one Sydney Harbour was a working port and the city's commercial lifeline to the world.
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Dublin, in case we have forgotten, is built on the inlet of a large river and is surrounded by numerous bays and inlets and has a vast well-sheltered harbour.
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Cut down the risk by not swimming near harbours or places where locals do their washing, and always towel down vigorously.
Times, Sunday Times
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Icebergs would languidly crumble to nothing just outside the mouth of the harbour.
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A little body often harbours a great soul.
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From the window she could see the docks, the harbour, the tugs that brought cargoes in and out and puffed stertorously, shaking the very air with their efforts.
Shallow Soil
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The ship has rudders and bowthrusters for harbour manoeuvring.
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He also has a 12m yacht moored in Monaco harbour.
Times, Sunday Times
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All said that the wool was a potential health and safety hazard because it could not be sterilised and could harbour germs.
Times, Sunday Times
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A herring gull with a crab claw in its beak stood on the harbour wall, observing me with pale, unfriendly eyes.
Times, Sunday Times
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With a rapid, jingling drive to the harbour in a two - wheeled machine (which Captain Mitchell called a curricle) behind a fleet and scraggy mule beaten all the time by an obviously Neapolitan driver, the cycle would be nearly closed before the lighted-up offices of the O.S. N. Company, remaining open so late because of the steamer.
Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard
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When 34 full-rigged Tall Ships and many others reached Amsterdam after a voyage across the Atlantic at the end of the Cutty Sark Tall Ships race, HMS Exeter was moored right in the centre of the harbour.
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Single radiolabelled colonies harbouring plasmids with inserts bigger than 1000 bp were analysed further.
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It was a scorching day and there was a light south-west wind when the select group, including two direct descendants of the islanders, disembarked on the rocks at Clashymore natural harbour.
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It is indisputable that birds in the UK are harbouring this illness.
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Penzance harbour has an excellent slipway for launching, with a large car park adjacent (fees charged for both).
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‘I used to enjoy dockyards, harbours and coal mines,’ she says.
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Its huge harbour is visited by cruise ships and freighters, and its dry-dock facilities are famous.
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The Statue of Liberty towers above the harbour of New York.
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When you consider that it costs more than that sum to construct just a good harbour, you can see there was no wastage there.
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If you want to rub shoulders with the modern-day glitterati, go for dinner at any of the restaurants by the harbour.
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This Harbour is situated one Mile to the Westward of _Brewer's Hole_, before which are two Islands, one without the other; the outermost, which is the largest is of a tolerable Height, and lies in a Line with the Coast, and is not easy to be distinguished from the Main in sailing along the Shore.
Directions for Navigating on Part of the South Coast of Newfoundland, with a Chart Thereof, Including the Islands of St. Peter's and Miquelon And a Particular Account of the Bays, Harbours, Rocks, Land-marks, Depths of Water, Latitudes, Bearings, and
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I think he's harbouring some sort of grudge against me.
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As we were just leaving the harbour another ship hove into view.
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Chester also had the usual components of a legionary fortress, including a headquarters building (principia), smart houses for the commander (praetorium) and senior officers, amphitheatre, stone defensive walls and a main baths building (thermae), not to mention a large harbour and a bridge crossing the River Dee.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Famous structures were incorporated into the layout including models of the Eiffel Tower and Sydney Harbour Bridge.
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But the evidence tells us that harbouring strong hope is unrealistic.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've bungied (bungeed?) before, but not off the harbour bridge and that's reason enough to do it again.
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Keep this in mind next time you make a pit stop at a fast-food drive-through - the steering wheel of your car harbours nine times more germs than a public toilet seat.
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These woodlands once harboured a colony of red deer.
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To achieve control, all their harbourages must be found and treated with residual insecticide. Look for small, dark faecal spots or white dots - bedbug eggs - close to hiding places.
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The Royal Navy assumed that Raeder, the head of the German Navy, would not tolerate three ships remaining in harbour and not doing anything.
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Surface water harbours pathogens and the insect vectors of infectious diseases.
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It may also be possible that there are harbour-side homes and restaurants whose sewage discharges directly into the harbour.
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Aberdeen and Lochaber, and there is good reason for supposing that the word harbour is derived from it.
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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Is your house harbouring a secret past?
Times, Sunday Times
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Some harbour board members fear that it will be in the area of the Deep Water Quay, coming through the site of the old dump.
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The other harbour is at the mouth of the Nelson in Saskatchewan.
Hudson's Bay: Its Conditions and Problems
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Barrel rolls, loops and dives featured as the three aircraft wheeled gracefully over the expanse of Sydney Harbour.
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In collaboration with my colleague Jörg Schlehofer, we were also able to demonstrate that herpes simplex virus, but also other herpes -, adeno -, and vaccinia virus infections of polyoma - or papillomavirus DNA harbouring cells, resulted in amplification of the DNA of the latter.
Harald zur Hausen - Autobiography
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Phones, PC keyboards and mice all harbour germs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The posters depicted rolling stock, landscapes and other scenes including Blackpool, the Garrick Theatre in Southport and Brixham harbour in south Devon.
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Earth, with all thy sorrows, take, take me once again, that better I may learn to work my way to that last harbour, which rejecting the criminal repiner, opens its soft bosom to the firm, though supplicating sufferer! '
Camilla
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Ardrossan harbour, still small and geared more to handling cargo, had to cope with large-scale passenger traffic.
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Up to now the strike action has had no impact on the port, primarily because the boatmen's duties are being carried out by the Harbour Master and the Chief Executive of the company.
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For a while, a plan for a harbour mole sat on the drawing board, but when the Armed Constabulary were transferred out of town, all shipping stopped.
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Nine years later his caravels were wrecked at Puerto Bueno - the present Dry Harbour.
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He havened his motorboat on a small harbour.
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They could see huge waves breaking over the main harbour and tossing ships about like tiny corks.
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If you stroll down the Kaivopuisto esplanade in Helsinki, there are some wooden benches along the harbour that look like picnic benches.
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But the evidence tells us that harbouring strong hope is unrealistic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tony even struggles out of bed at 4am most days to buy turbot, squid and lobster from Cornish day boats on the harbour.
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Skirt the breeding colony of common terns that plunge-dive in the surf, and head out across the sands towards the lime kilns at Beadnell harbour, where you can catch the bus back to Seahouses.
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BeefBar is situated overlooking the harbour in the Fontveille quarter, so you enjoy your meal while gazing covetously at the superyachts moored there.
Review - BeefBar, Monaco 17 October 2008
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There is imminent danger of collapse into the narrow channel that allows fishing boats and pleasure craft access to the deep, protected inner harbour.
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Often wild and dramatic, it also offers the cosiness of sheltered coves and fishing harbours.
Times, Sunday Times
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Water was pumped from the workboat in an attempt to refloat her in the outer harbour.
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The yard and slipway led to the harbour where the ships were serviced.
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It was a scorching day and there was a light south-west wind when the select group, including two direct descendants of the islanders, disembarked on the rocks at Clashymore natural harbour.
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Cambay, which is the harbour for our fleet while in this part of India, when we were visited by the merchants of the Surat factory, the principal of whom was Mr Thomas Kerridge.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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Silt levels in Sligo Harbour have been cause for grave concern in recent years, and the current levels mean the port may soon become unnavigable.
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Still harbour forlorn dreams of having time for an allotment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Therefore, in 2004 the group collectively agreed to reduce the number of longlines per hectare within the Harbour.
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At the lower or northern end, a short divide separates it from the sea; and the waves, during the high westerly gales, run far inland: it would be easy to open a regular communication between the harbour and its saltern.
The Land of Midian
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From the acropolis we have a sanctuary of Demeter and Kore while from the North Harbour area we have rich levels from the 6th century.
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Accusations of harbouring suspects were raised against the former Hungarian leadership.
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The tail end of a cyclone hit Gisborne just as the ship was leaving the harbour and instead of sailing out beyond the reef it finished up aground alongside it.
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The still waters have lost their clarity, tarnished by the ominous clouds that overhang the harbour.
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Motoring organisations have long harboured concerns about the way the price of petrol at the pump is set.
Times, Sunday Times
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For square-riggers, the island had a perfect strategic location for control of the island chain to the south, and it had, in English Harbour, one of the world's most protected anchorages.
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On the easel was a wild abstract in crude bright colours, bearing no visible relation at all to the scene in the harbour before them; it was unexpected, compared to the neat, anaemic little water-colours that nineteen out of twenty Trewissick harbour-painters produced.
Greenwitch
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Another 20 unknown contacts were countermined in harbours as the team responded to USN unmanned vehicle or marine mammal searches.
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He did not disappoint us - the spectacular display of fire and colour, reflected in the harbour, was absolutely beyond words.
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You seem to be harbouring some resentment against your boss.
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Although it is not large and the wood is a thick mahogany colour, the venue is afforded an airy feeling by the large windows with views out onto Hughes' Bridge and Sligo Harbour.
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He and his commandos had already struck a blow for Britain in September 1943 with Operation Jaywick, when they canoed into Singapore harbour and sank seven ships.
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Families and guests enjoyed the views of Sydney harbour and coastline as the ship steamed for Broken Bay, positioning at the starting line off Barrenjoey Head.
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The harbour is four fathoms deep.
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Let them go and slowly we will see our country harbour fewer of these fools who wish death upon us.
The Sun
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She began to harbour doubts over the wisdom of their journey.
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Now, they are again insisting that their beef is safe, but that assertion is questionable given that there is currently no reliable way to test live animals to see if they are harbouring the disease.
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Later on Friday night some of the striking boatmen took over a pilot boat and their action prevented a harbour pilot disembarking from a ship coming down river from Belview Port on its way to Rotterdam.
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Self-regulation can work if there is both a default rule urging for its fine tuning (via contract), and a common sharing of values upon which to build the needed exceptions and safe harbours.
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Rain foamed on the hotel's harbour side lawn and produced a bank of hanging mist opaque as hill fog.
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This 16 th-century coaching inn, in the characterful market town of Pickering, once harboured smugglers moving salt from Whitby to York.
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I refresh myself after a day in the train with a marvellously spicy bouillabaisse (fish stew) in the elegant, vaulted Les Arcenaulx, one of many atmospheric harbour-side restaurants.
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Annette Kellerman was born in 1886 in Sydney and learned to swim in a harbour side pool.
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It is mostly the fishermen that make use of the harbour with big ships docking occasionally.
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Next came harbour sites, townsites and main roads.
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Volunteers' title hopes took a blow when they lost 4-3 at home to Hounds, who still harbour faint hopes of the championship.
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Hong Kong has been endowed with one of the finest natural harbours in the world.
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In passing North Harbour continue to be prominent in the to-ing and fro-ing of leading players.
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Poor Admiral Boxer has fallen a victim to its remorseless gripe, and is buried at the head of the harbour, where he worked so hard, early and late, to endeavour to rescue Balaklava from the plague-stricken wretchedness in which he found it a few months before.
Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
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The Bahamas' capital, with its large, sheltered harbour, has swung many times from boomtown to backwater and back again in its rather raffish past.
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When city founder John Graves Simcoe first sailed into our harbour in 1793, he reportedly suggested that the waterfront would make a lovely spot for an esplanade, maybe a park as well.
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But at Port Sudan, halfway down the Red Sea, the restrictions were eased, and for the small charge of two shillings we could board a motor launch to be ferried across the harbour and view the town.
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Such information did he gather, over many bottles of beer, that the next afternoon, hiring a small launch at a cost of ten shillings, he journeyed up the harbour to Jackson Bay, where lay the lofty - poled, sweet-lined, three-topmast American schooner, the Mary
CHAPTER IX
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For most of his two-hour Harbourfront concert, the singer sang, chanted and expostulated about African self-worth, AIDS and government corruption.
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We descended from the castle to keep a promise to our daughter to let her go on a fairground ride near the town harbour.
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This season it is being remounted in Montreal through late October, and then moves back to Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, where it debuted, through November.
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From his position on the cliff top, he had a good view of the harbour.
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To make matters worse, an alien monster has bobbed up in Hong Kong harbour keen for a bit of biffo.
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Many single birds are also present now in harbours along the south coast.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fishing boat harbour was usually bustling with lots of local colour.
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Colin Howes, Keeper of Environmental Records at Doncaster Museum, says there are many problems with the legend, not least of which is the location of the woodland which harboured the wild cat.
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The girl who once called herself Jill Blando always harboured a sense of puzzlement that people found her clever, talented and beautiful.
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NATO navies need to ensure they can deploy safely from home ports, on passage to operating areas, and can gain access to ports, harbours, anchorages or even beaches.
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At the harbour now known as Santiago de Cuba, where he anchored on May 2nd, he had what seemed like authentic information of a great island to the southward which was alleged to be the source of all the gold.
Christopher Columbus
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He barreled straight ahead, across the harbour and out over sea.
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Some of the attachments will be removed today in Portsmouth Harbour, then Swan will sail out into the Solent and dock down, refloating the destroyer as the final lashings are removed.
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The harbour is a lighterage port where ships are worked in stream buoys by means of lighters and pontoons for loading and offloading cargo.
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In UK waters regulatory control has not yet been formalised , but once draft regulations come into force ship to ship transfers will only be able to take place in harbour or port authorities.
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The gale rose again after sunrise, and when, after doing sixty miles in fourteen hours, we reached the heads of Hakodate Harbour, it was blowing and pouring like a bad day in Argyllshire, the spin-drift was driving over the bay, the Yezo mountains loomed darkly and loftily through rain and mist, and wind and thunder, and
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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Brian, a keen ornithologist, also informed me that there's a breeding pair of herons right there in the harbour.
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As we sailed away from the harbour I realised how I was very fortunate to be one of the lucky few to be embarking on the challenge that lay ahead.
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Exilius, for Shame die, let Despair kill thee, thou deservest no less Punishment, for harbouring a Thought so arrogant, or rather impious, in daring to love one who ought only to be belov'd by a King or a Deity.
Exilius
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Two hundred scuba divers descended on the island to clean up the harbour.
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And away from the glamour and the excitement of the stage, there is often the hidden loneliness, the restless mind that seldom knows the calm of a safe harbour.
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Whereas we still harbour reasonable hopes of ending 38 years of footballing hurt, English tennis seems beyond salvation.
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It was as if it was harbouring some great consuming sadness and had lost the urge to live.
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The feathered coves and bays of Sydney Harbour make getting around the city particularly picturesque.
Times, Sunday Times
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It must be autumn at home now – the harbour is a-dream and the old Glen hills blue with haze, and Rainbow Valley a haunt of delight with wild asters blowing all over it – our old 'farewell-summers.'
Rilla of Ingleside
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the solid prosperity of Britannia was never securely extended north of the Humber, where the Cumbrian mountains and Pennine chain harboured disruptive local tribes.
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During WWII searchlights were beamed continuously across Sydney Harbour as a deterrent to the Japanese.
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After setting anchor, the holiday makers board their dinghy and make their way over to the harbour-side restaurant of Augusta Insula.
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Cruising outside the harbour gives you fantastic views of the city and mountains beyond.
The Sun
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Visibility isn't the point since it's often lousy and if you get seasick all those boats bobbing about in the harbour can make you pretty miserable.
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In 1941 he helped defuse mines used to blockade Harwich harbour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Darling Harbour is the site for many conference centres, exhibition halls and auditoriums.
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Looking for the consolation prize of a seal cull in Carnley Harbour in the Auckland Islands group, Captain Thomas Musgrave and the mate Francois Raynal were accompanied by three other sailors - and soon-to-be castaways.
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A friend met me at the Ocean River Sports dock at noon; 30 minutes later, we crossed the runway and bee-lined for Fisherman's Wharf, a klatch of pastel-colored houseboats and floating restaurants on the edge of the Inner Harbour.
Victoria, By Sea
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Behind there are vertical cliffs, a dynamic backdrop dwarfing the harbour to insignificance.
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There are UK warships at harbour here, and off duty squaddies roaring around the streets on mopeds, but what we really came to see is apes, Barbary Apes.
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He kindly offered to give them a lift to the harbour, although he was slightly displeased when he realised how much luggage there was going to be.
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The boat pivoted on its central axis and pointed straight at the harbour entrance.
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Besides providing a depository for the neighbouring heavy metals refinery, Bleak Pond forms a natural sump for the surrounding agricultural land, so harbours little aquatic life.
