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Example sentences for "haven"

Lexicographically close words:
havas; have; haved; haveing; haveinge; havena; havens; havent; haver; haversack
  1. We entered this haven through a wicket-gate, and were disgorged by an introductory passage into a melancholy little square that looked to me like a flat burying-ground.

  2. When Pisanio showed me Milford-Haven from the mountain top, how near it seemed!

  3. My ship beneath the woods Of Neïus, at yonder field that skirts Your city, in the haven Rhethrus rides.

  4. In front of the Cyclopean haven lies A level island, not adjoining close Their land, nor yet remote, woody and rude.

  5. The haven there is good, and many a ship 440 Finds wat'ring there from riv'lets on the coast.

  6. Safe is its haven also, where no need Of cable is or anchor, or to lash The hawser fast ashore, but pushing in His bark, the mariner might there abide Till rising gales should tempt him forth again.

  7. Life, as he thus reviewed it, tempted him no longer; but on the farther side he perceived a quiet haven for his bark.

  8. She thought she would find in England a haven of refuge; instead she found there a prison.

  9. Just as New England was the Puritans' refuge, so Maryland, granted to Lord Baltimore in 1632, was a haven for the persecuted Roman Catholics.

  10. For us, however, it was not the resting-place of the wicked woman but a haven of safety for our relief, so much had the sea now got up.

  11. But the haven for which she had been instinctively aiming was just across the Road, and she found a peace and quiet which sank into her perturbed soul like a benediction.

  12. Paul Patoff had not yet reached the quiet haven of his hopes, and I have not reached the end of my story.

  13. Nor is there anything that should be further removed from youth than the contemplation of death, which to old age is but a haven of rest to be desired, whereas to those who are still young it is an abyss to be abhorred.

  14. Description of a Meteoric Fire-Ball seen at New Haven by the Rev.

  15. Surely I had drifted out of the storm into the very haven of rest and peace, and yet one might justly dread lest the beauty which bound my eyes every moment in a stronger fascination should evoke an unrest from which there might be no haven.

  16. We were made to feel that it was our own dear home--a safe, quiet haven ever open to us when we wished to escape from the turmoil of the world.

  17. Appleton as president and George Haven Putnam as secretary, and from that time forward the authors' and publishers' leagues acted in close cooperation.

  18. Drone nor George Haven Putnam were disposed to enter upon the task, which has therefore fallen to the present writer.

  19. Three years later, in 1810, Margaret Dwight left New Haven to go to her cousins in Warren, Ohio.

  20. But in New Haven in the nineteenth, or even the twentieth--?

  21. One glance at the woman in the Athens of Pericles and at woman in the New Haven of President Dwight answers the question which the nimble elderly wit eluded.

  22. And the second week was now going blithely forward, while Alva worked and waited, hoping each hour for the telegram that should summon her to bring her lover into the haven her love was building.

  23. From 1715, Freemasonry spread and swiftly provided a spiritual haven for those who believed in God and desired ritual and mysticism.

  24. Maryland was founded in 1632 as a haven for Catholics, but its charter precluded a government-established religion.

  25. At the bottom of Shoal Haven we were stopped by the water shoaling to five feet, so that we were obliged to haul out till we could anchor in more than two fathoms.

  26. To the southward is Lear Bay, a mile in extent, affording anchorage, but not to be chosen when such an excellent haven as Puerto Bueno is near.

  27. This home was a haven between sin and suicide.

  28. It stands a haven to the man who is desperate.

  29. In the Latin indictment of the dead Logan this is again dwelt on; Fastcastle is only to be the safe haven of the murderers.

  30. All the officers of state are to be chosen, and New Haven is one of the principal polling-places.

  31. In all the States we met with nothing to be compared, in all that was pleasing, to the two cities of Connecticut--New Haven and Hartford.

  32. Still, I did but touch then on the only haven of Insight.

  33. On thy gentle breast It hoped to find the haven of its rest; But in cold night, hurried afar from thee, It closed its once half-smiling destiny.

  34. Among the latest elephantine tales which we have encountered is the following, from our New Haven correspondent:-- Dr.

  35. This is the secret Spring that pushes them forward; and the Superiority which they gain above the undistinguish'd many, does more than repair those Wounds they have received in the Combat.

  36. The Trunk of the Tree was mark'd with his own Name, Will Maple.

  37. After this, one Sir Baldwin Talford undertook to burn the earl's fleet in the haven of Calais; this, however, proved but a vain vaunt.

  38. He reached that haven at last by the exercise of great good judgment.

  39. Indians gave them food and shelter and a haven of rest while waiting for the pettiaugres that are coming up from New Orleans.

  40. Many a cowering deer in those last few days that had made some one of these green fragments of the drowned land a haven of despair, the human castaway left unharmed.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "haven" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.