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1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492:
In West Wales it has never been possible until recently to exploit the magnificent natural harbour of Milford Haven, for there was no industrial hinterland.
The docks, which once harboured tall ships, now harbour only petty thieves.
a.1716 (date written), Burnet, edited by , Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time., volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Ward, published 1724, →OCLC:
The bare suspicion made it treason to harbour the person suspected.
Nor let your gentle Breast harbor one Thought Of Outrage from the Kin.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 188, about Flamborough:
Its streets fan out towards the clifftops, and its sheltered North Landing harbours open-decked fishing boats, called 'cobles'.
2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
If Moldova harboured even the slightest hopes of pulling off a comeback that would have bordered on miraculous given their lack of quality, they were snuffed out 13 minutes before the break
