Harbours

To see the coaling of the steamers in Japanese harbours, which is done by baskets handed from one to another, makes an impression on the traveller. ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)

A diagram showing the parts of a tugboat, a boat used to maneuver large ships in harbours, over the open sea, or through rivers and canals. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Meanwhile, during the Winter and Spring months, over 500,000 tons of material were gathered together in harbours on both East and West Coasts. ❋ Unknown (1955)

English goods, lying in English harbours, and just ready to sail for ❋ Daniel Jackson (N/A)

Seaplane pilots were bombing specialists, including among their targets army headquarters, ammunition dumps, railway stations, submarines and their bases, docks, shipping in German harbours, and the German Fleet at Wilhelmshaven. ❋ Evelyn Charles Vivian (1914)

Steamers: coaling of, in Japanese harbours; unpleasant trip on Barito River; voyage on a rattan transport; the _De Weert_; the _Grotius_; the _Otto_; the _Selatan_; the _Sophia_ ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)

The excuse the Frenchmen gave for treating them thus barbarously was that the French taken by English cruisers were shut up on board hulks in English harbours without good food or any exercise. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

He was also to investigate the possibilities of sabotaging German ships in Dutch harbours. ❋ Marks, Leo (1998)

"The harbours are our fathers 'harbours, and were freed to us forty years ago." ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

After the business at Gibraltar, Philip's subjects were not safe in English harbours. ❋ James Anthony Froude (1856)

She was flying the Castilian flag, contrary to rule, it was said, in English harbours. ❋ James Anthony Froude (1856)

The king's taxes, the king's duties, the king's escheats and forfeitures, are levied; the harbours are the king's harbours, the courts are the king's courts, the fortresses are the king's fortresses, and the people are the king's lieges. ❋ Unknown (1842)

Earlier in the day Elfyn Llwyd revealed that the Government had pretty much ignored all and any concerns expressed by the relevant Commons committee on the Planning Bill, which seeks to place the control of the construction of major infrastructure of national importance, such as harbours and waste facilities, power stations and roads, in the hands of an undemocratic quango beyond any accountability - the IPC. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Earlier in the day Elfyn Llwyd revealed that the Government had pretty much ignored all and any concerns expressed by the relevant Commons committee on the Planning Bill, which seeks to place the control of the construction of major infrastructure of national importance, such as harbours and waste facilities, power stations and roads, in the hands of an undemocratic quango beyond any accountability -the IPC. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Most of the loans are secured on local rates, where the interest payable is either 31/2 or 33/4 per cent., according to the period of the loan; others on undertakings such as harbours; and others on the land for the improvement of which the money is borrowed. ❋ Erskine Childers (1896)

"harbours" were generally near some Roman road or Roman settlement. ❋ Various (N/A)

It harbours radical Islamists and anti-Semites on its payroll and was even caught in 2004 using its own ambulances to ferry terrorists away from Israeli sites they had just attacked. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The planet regards its bonds as the safest of financial harbours, and no second-rater in any agency could transform this perception on his own. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A naval blockade of the norths harbours might of helped. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Moreover, the infrastructure is there – harbours, an airport, shops, restaurants and even a cinema. ❋ Unknown (2011)