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Definition of Harbors
1. harbor [v] - See also: harbor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harbors
Literary usage of Harbors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1909)
"Chicago WATERWAYS AND harbors The Widening of the Suez Canal. ... 95663 B.
See also Shore Protection, under WATERWAYS AND harbors. Cofferdams. ..."
2. History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States by Emory Richard Johnson, Thurman William Van Metre, Grover Gerhardt Huebner, David Scott Hanchet (1915)
"IMPROVEMENT OF RIVERS AND harbors AND REGULATION OF WATERWAYS. ... The first
period of the improvement of harbors and inland waterways extended from 1789 to ..."
3. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1840)
"IV—THE harbors OF NORTH AMERICA. Natural facilities for the formation of harbors
on the American Coast—Tides— Construction of Quays and ..."
4. The History of Cuba by Willis Fletcher Johnson (1920)
"CHAPTER XXXI BAYS AND harbors NOTHING is more essential to the general prosperity
of a mercantile country than good harbors. They are the economic gateways ..."
5. The Life of the Greeks and Romans Described from Antique Monuments by Ernst Karl Guhl, W. Koner (1896)
"Of the harbors of ire have spoken -a-"£L' tliose of the Romans we of the two
nations; to the conditions of the local advantages, as a , In Greece, ..."
6. A Text-book of Commercial Geography by Cyrus Cornelius Adams (1901)
"Many atoll harbors (Fig. 17) are found in the Pacific and Indian FIG. ... A few
commercial harbors are formed by the breaking down of one side of a crater ..."
7. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh (1905)
"MESSAGE ON THE ACT FOR THE DEFENCE OF RIVERS AND harbors.1 March, 1808. In proceeding
to carry into execution the Act, etc., it is found that the sites most ..."
8. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"The Improvement of harbors, bays and navi(?a- Ые riven within the States may be
regulated by <*-te authority, if it does not Impair their free navigation as ..."
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