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Sentences ending with anchor

When it cleared the yacht was tugging like a wild thing at its anchor. [9]
Down past the square ran a cool avenue of beeches to the water, and he could see his yacht at anchor. [11]
Joyfully did Phips raise anchor. [11]
We were driving over the spot where, eighteen centuries ago, the Roman fleet used to ride at anchor. [4]
They presently came out of an obscure alley by the canal connecting Kibotus with Lake Mareotis where the Nile-boats lay at anchor. [10]
Official intelligence was made public early yesterday morning that the enemy's iron-clad fleet had attempted to cross the bar and failed, but later in the day it was announced that the gunboats and transports had succeeded in crossing and were at anchor. [7]
Then it rubs its eyes and wonders whether it has found its harbor or only lost its anchor. [6]
Yet whatever was in view for John, he would be beyond her reach as soon as the ship to which he was being conveyed weighed anchor. [10]
Whatever his purpose, I honestly think that you might have great influence over him," mused Dicky, and, getting up, stepped from the veranda, as though to go to the bank where an incoming steamer they had been watching was casting anchor. [11]
Toward midnight a fine breeze sprang up and the schooner soon worked herself into the bay and cast anchor. [5]

More example sentences with the word anchor in them

With her he would cast anchor for the remainder of his life; but first must come the period when he enjoyed the compensation now awarded to him for such severe sufferings. [10]
We dropped anchor within half a mile of the village. [5]
Just as he was lifting anchor to get away, he saw a boat shoot out from the side of the Cormorant. [11]
Once more there was a full audience on deck to listen to the sailors' chorus as they got the anchor up, and to wave an adieu to the land as we sped away from Naples. [5]
Three of the verses I give here: "The 'Lovely Jane' went sailing down To anchor at the Spicy Isles; And the wind was fair as ever was blown, For the matter of a thousand miles. [11]
If in the vague dusk of her brain the thought glimmered that she was ballast for Jean on sea and anchor on land, she still was content. [11]
So we took up the anchor and moved outside, to lie a dozen hours or so, taking in supplies, and then sail for Constantinople. [5]
So we hauled up the anchor and got round the point. [5]
The impression of unreality in the face of visual evidence persisted into the night when, after an afternoon at anchor, we glided up the river, our decks and ports ablaze across the land. [9]
A galley ready to weigh anchor was constantly at the disposal of the commandant of the fortress, and the next noon the noble pair, with Hermon and his faithful Bias, went on board the Galatea. [10]
When we came to anchor at last, and Captain Phillips looked at his watch and said, "Sixteen minutes--I told you it was in her! [5]
They told us the ship had been lying at anchor in the harbor two or three hours. [5]
Quickly battening down the prisoners, I had the sails spread, the windlass going, and the anchor apeak quickly, and we soon were moving down upon the schooner, which was now all confusion, commands ringing out on the quiet air. [11]
The hall of the old Anchor Tavern was a convenient place of meeting for the students and instructors of the University and the Institute. [6]
Farrar put into the little cove, where we dropped anchor, and soon had the chief sufferers ashore; and a delicate supper, in the preparation of which Miss Thorn showed her ability as a cook, soon restored them. [9]
We dismounted, for the last time, and out in the offing, riding at anchor, we saw the ship! [5]
Before them stretched the harbour, dotted with sails; men-of-war lay at anchor, among them the little Ruby, Commander Dibbs's cruiser. [11]
She must know the day and hour when he had cast anchor there, wherefor he had chosen to lodge in the Genoa Fondaco, when I last had seen him, nay, and of what stuff and color his garments were made. [10]
As soon as the anchor was down, Jack and I got a boat and went ashore. [5]
The landlord of the Anchor Tavern, now the head of the boarding-house, talked about Maurice, as everybody in the village did at one time or another. [6]
The landlord of the Anchor Tavern had taken down his sign. [6]
The swift glance that swept the room was sent to discover a weapon, and before it completed the circuit Hermon had already grasped the bronze anchor with the long rod twined with leaves and the teeth turned downward. [10]
Something told her that if it were not for this anchor she would be drifting out to sea: might, indeed, soon be drifting out to sea in spite of it. [9]
This roaring avalanche swept out of Melbourne and left it desolate, Sunday-like, paralyzed, everything at a stand-still, the ships lying idle at anchor, all signs of life departed, all sounds stilled save the rasping of the cloud-shadows as they scraped across the vacant streets. [5]
With a rattling song the starboard watch bent to their work and hove the cable short, then got the anchor home, and our bark moved off with a stately stride, and soon was bowling along at about two knots an hour. [5]
This worthy man sighted Mohair on a Sunday morning, and at nine o'clock dropped his anchor with a salute which caused Mr. Cooke to say unpleasant things in his sleep. [9]
The wind and sea were equally favorable to both galleys; but the Venetians outstripped the Spaniards and dropped anchor at Alicante twenty-four hours before the latter. [10]
A few ships rode at anchor in it--one of them a sailing vessel flying the American flag; and they said she came from Duluth! [5]
With what lazy restfulness the distant All's well floated across the mielles from a ship at anchor in the tide-way, how like a slumber-song the wash of the sea rolled drowsily along the wind! [11]
I am not quite sure that a French Admiral of the Republic will not some morning anchor his three-decker in front, and open fire on us; but nothing else can happen. [4]
Had there been plenty of work to do, had they been at sea instead of at anchor, the nervousness would have been little; but idleness begot irritation, and irritation mutiny. [11]
But while every one was most absorbed in gazing over the side, and the interest was momentarily increasing, it was observed with consternation that the vessel was adrift and the anchor cable hanging limp from the bow. [5]
The lady's word on my ship is law till we anchor at the Queen's Stairs at Greenwich. [11]
The soft light of the lamp, which with two others hung from a tall, heavy bronze stand in the shape of an anchor, which Bias had brought, shone brightly enough to allow him to perceive how powerful was the man whose life he had saved. [10]
Such another system of overhauling, general littering of cabins and packing of trunks we had not seen since we let go the anchor in the harbor of Beirout. [5]
He got an oar and backed with all his strength towards the stern, the anchor holding well. [11]
But this last new horse I have got is trying to break his neck over the tent-ropes, and I shall have to go out and anchor him. [5]
She was so near that Guida could see the anchor a-cockbell, and the poop lanthorns. [11]
Many memories of my former visit to the islands came up in my mind while we lay at anchor in front of Honolulu that night. [5]
The family of musicians had all met on board the barge which was lying at anchor in the lake, off the ship-yard. [10]
A boat was lowered, and a line was brought to the yacht, which was soon in tow with a stout cable hitched to the steamer's anchor windlass. [4]
The anchor of love, which moored their ship to the solid earth, had been tested in the solitude of the Serpent Island. [10]
One of them let anchor go right off the place where our patched boat lay. [11]
Here the galleys lay at anchor, not in the harbour of Eunostus, which was separated from the other by the broad, bridge-like dam of the Heptastadium, that united the city and the island of Pharos. [10]
The sail-boats that lay at anchor on the still silver surface sent down long shadows, and the slim masts seemed driven down into the water to hold the boats in place. [4]
But he was known as Gaspard the pilot, and on those rare occasions when a vessel did anchor in the bay, he performed his duties with such a certainty as to leave unguessed how many deathtraps crouched near that shore. [11]
The whites landed, killed some Indians, burnt forty houses, pillaged the village, and went on up the river and came to anchor in front of Matchcot, the Emperor's chief town. [4]
All night we jogged along with easy sail, but just at dawn, in a sudden opening of the land, we saw a sloop at anchor near a wooded point, her pennant flying. [11]
When the anchor is down, then I shall say: "Farewell--a long farewell--to business! [5]
I have often, indeed, seen white sails climbing up there, and fishing-boats, at secure anchor I suppose, riding apparently like balloons in the hazy air. [4]
We dropped anchor in the mouth of the Golden Horn at daylight in the morning. [5]
It seemed as if life were extinct on the huge galley usually swarming with a numerous crew; as if a vessel were about to cast anchor whose sailors had fallen victims to the plague. [10]
The Captain and I are ashore here under guard, waiting to know whether they will let the ship anchor or not. [5]
She thought of him every day and every hour; and as soon as a vessel from the north cast anchor within sight, she watched the voyagers as they disembarked to detect him among them. [10]
She had dropped her anchor in perilous seas, but it had never dragged. [11]
Tom took the hellum, I stood by to let go the anchor, and Jim he straddled the bow to dig through the fog with his eyes and watch out for danger ahead. [5]
As for Myrtilus, he had cast anchor with Ledscha in the little Mysian seaport town of Pitane, near the mouth of the Caicus River, on which, farther inland, was the rapidly growing city of Pergamus. [10]
Then, luffing quickly, he dropped sail, let go the anchor, and unshipped the mast, while Andree got the oars into the rowlocks. [11]
The vessels that have weighed anchor since daybreak must be followed and brought back. [10]
Then I would have him strike a bold stroke,--set up a nice little coach, and be driven round like a first-class London doctor, instead of coasting about in a shabby one-horse concern and casting anchor opposite his patients' doors like a Cape Ann fishing-smack. [6]
The reader can hardly have failed to notice that the old Anchor Tavern had become the focal point where a good deal of mental activity converged. [6]
Out by this hall door-through the grounds--to the beach--the boat in waiting--and so, up anchor and away! [11]
So we had half the fellows up, and giving them fishing-lines, rum, and provisions, with a couple of muskets and ammunition, we sent them off to shift for themselves, and, raising anchor, got on our way down the broad river, in perfect weather. [11]
And I had half the encouragement she has given you, I would cast anchor on the spot, and they might hang and quarter me to move me. [9]
Not since he had come to Gaspard had a ship passed the bay or sought to anchor in it. [11]
Meanwhile the anchor had been raised, and the Hornet was moving towards the harbour mouth. [11]
From that time forth, whenever his ship was signaled in the offing, or he catted his anchor and stood out to sea, that ensign streamed from the royal halliards on the parliament house and the nation lifted their hats to it with spontaneous accord. [5]
A much lesser fleet went forth from Venice late in the year and came to anchor there again, loaded with spices, in the month of March or not later than April. [10]
There were a few country-looking stores and shops, and on the shore three or four rather decayed and shaky wharves ran into the water, and a few schooners lay at anchor near them; and the usual decaying warehouses leaned about the docks. [4]
They spent two days longer waiting, and then at dawn a merchantman came sauntering up to anchor. [11]
Captain Paul had conned the brigantine hither with a master's hand; but now that the anchor was on the ground, he became palpably nervous. [9]
Whenever we were coming back from a land journey, our eyes sought one thing in the distance first--the ship --and when we saw it riding at anchor with the flag apeak, we felt as a returning wanderer feels when he sees his home. [5]
Before I could come to anchor he had got underway. [5]
The time had come for him to go, but there was his ship at anchor in the tide-way still. [11]
We entered and cast anchor, and in the morning went oh-ing and ah-ing in admiration up through the crooks and turns of the spacious and beautiful harbor--a harbor which is the darling of Sydney and the wonder of the world. [5]
Then the mate came, with his hand to his cap, respectfully to inform visitors that the anchor was up and down. [9]
As the Hornet came to anchor the Cormorant saluted her, and she replied instantly. [11]
He seated himself by the side of his captive and told the court to "up anchor and make sail. [5]
This was apparent by the motion of the vessels lying at anchor in the angle which the shore in front of the superb Temple of Poseidon formed with the Choma. [10]
It is only by reason that the galley tarried for Junker Schopper and weighed anchor half a day later, that he forbodes ill. [10]
He could not budge, he is planted solid like a church, he not advance no more than if one him had put at the anchor. [5]
About sunset, strong breeze blowing, got up the anchor. [5]
An attempt was being made, with much shouting, and by the combined exertions of an immense number of men, to get the larger ships afloat which lay at anchor close to the quay of the King's harbor and to place them in security. [10]
He was alongside before Phips had called anchor. [11]
Our poet has been rigidly suppressed, from the time we let go the anchor. [5]
It had always been considered an uninhabited island; so when a ship did at last drop its anchor there, in 1808, the captain was greatly surprised to find the place peopled. [5]
We dropped anchor at Cyrene, where the young master wanted to pick up his brother and bring him also to Alexandria. [10]
The Scimitar lay at anchor with her sail down, and two men were coming ashore in the tender. [9]
The principal inns are the Golden Anchor and the Sun. [5]
Get a wife, and she'll anchor you. [4]
The greatest bustle and noise were at a part of the quay where, under large tents, the custom-house officials were busily engaged, for most vessels first cast anchor at Memphis to pay duty or Nile-toll on the "king's table. [10]
As we hove-to and dropped anchor, a boat was pushed out into the surf by a man who had hurriedly come down the beach from the house. [11]
The moment the anchor was down, the Governor of the town immediately dispatched an officer on board to inquire if he could be of any assistance to us, and to invite us to make ourselves at home in Sebastopol! [5]
Lying here at anchor all day--Albany (King George's Sound), Western Australia. [5]
Countless vessels are also at anchor in the Eunostus. [10]
She had brought along a volume by a modern poet: the verses, as Nancy read them, moved me,--they were filled with a new faith to which my being responded, the faith of the forth-farer; not the faith of the anchor, but of the sail. [9]
Joan of Arc--but all this is premature; the anchor is not down yet. [5]
At anchor and all right, but they won't let us land till morning--it is a waste of valuable time. [5]
It was indeed a philosopher under torture, a spirit rocking on its anchor. [11]
This was only a part of his duty, for he was a man-of-all-work, purveyor, steward, chambermaid,--as universal in his services for one man as Pushee at the Anchor Tavern used to be for everybody. [6]

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