13 Metaphors for harbour

Bombay is the principal town of Western India, and as its harbour is the best and safest on the whole west coast, it is the chief seat of commerce for the produce and manufactures of India, the Malay country, Persia, Arabia, and Abyssinia.

Corio Harbour is in fact the best anchorage in Port Phillip, that at Hobson's Bay being very confined, and scarcely affording any shelter from southerly winds for large ships.

The best harbour for a penitent is a change of intention.

USELESS HARBOUR is so shoal as to be, according to its name, quite unserviceable; since boats can with difficulty penetrate to the bottom, although its length is twenty-one miles: HENRY FREYCINET HARBOUR is twenty-two leagues long in a South-East direction; and from three to six leagues wide.

The harbour is paradise, and he who reaches that haven is made supremely rich.

The harbour is an open roadstead; trade is small, the chief export oil seeds.

"The unfrequented coral harbour was an ideal spot for this operation.

As a whaling town, Sag Harbour is the third or fourth port in the country, and maintains something like that rank in importance.

If it could go and come freely when it chose, the harbour was the place for it while it waited.

New York Harbour is a wonderful sight, but you have read all about it often.

POLA (31), the chief naval station of Austria, 73 m. S. of Trieste, in the Adriatic; the harbour is both spacious and deep; was originally a Roman colony, and a flourishing seat of commerce.

I was reading a book the other day which said that Sydney harbour is the most beautiful thing God ever made on the face of the globe.'

USELESS HARBOUR is so shoal as to be, according to its name, quite unserviceable; since boats can with difficulty penetrate to the bottom, although its length is twenty-one miles: HENRY FREYCINET HARBOUR is twenty-two leagues long in a South-East direction; and from three to six leagues wide.

13 Metaphors for  harbour