A vessel from France has just cast anchorunder Amber Island," he said.
Eight or ten of our transports lay at anchor and still there was abundant room for the liners and for the little craft plying between this and the small ports.
Before our boat dropped anchor there were hundreds of Celestials climbing up the sides of the ship with all kinds of articles for sale.
Her very lightness, due to the fact that the gas bag was partly filled, and the strength of the anchor ropes, had saved her.
Securely held by the anchor ropes, the Comet, as light as a chip on the surface of the waves, floated on the bosom of the flood.
As the captain did nor care about proceeding up the river after dark it was not until the tide turned, just as morning broke, that the anchor was weighed.
The Doutelle weighed anchor as soon as the last of the party arrived on deck, and under easy sail proceeded to Belleisle.
In the meantime, the Industry having come to an anchor in Portsmouth Harbour, Captain Leicester, waiting only to see the sails properly furled, jumped into the boat and hurried away to his owner's residence.
Considerable difficulty was experienced in obtaining a crew for the brig, good men being scarce; but at last this was overcome, and on a bright September morning the anchor was hove up, and the Virginie started upon her cruise.
Some half a dozen men-o'-war lay at anchor at Spithead; and the waters of the Solent were dotted with the sails of craft of all sizes, from the stately frigate to the humble but enterprising bumboat.
It might have been quite heart-breaking, but for Dora, who was the stay and anchor of my tempest-driven bark.
I intended, I said, to write Life as it realy is, and not as supposed to be.
So I lay back on my pillow and stared at the ceiling.
The Hansa had weighedanchor on the 3rd of February.
The Dobryna signalized her arrival by firing her cannon, and dropped anchor in the little port of the Shelif.
The schooner accordingly was steered directly towards it, and in less than an hour had cast anchor within a few cables' lengths of the shore.
Upon an old tree trunk, in stone, appears a ship's anchor and cable.
We came to anchor at, I should say, about two o’clock in the morning off what we have since designated as X.
The best known games for which they are used are Poker, Banker and Broker, Brag, Twenty-one, Crown and Anchor and House.
You forget, sir, that as soon as she drops her anchor she will come on board and take a fancy to at least ten of our men.
You are going then, I presume, to stay on board and dine with me: we shall be at anchor before night.
I believe you are right, Mr Oxbelly, so if you please we will up with the anchor at once.
The cutter was then hoisted up, and as the anchor was too heavy to weigh, they cut the cable, and made sail.
As soon as the chests and hammocks were on the deck, he told them that when he could get the anchor up and make sail, he would give them some bottled porter.
Jack proposed that he should get the porter up, and they would drink it while he got the anchor up, as it would save time.
The anchor was weighed, and the transport ran out under her fore-topsail, as they were light-handed, and had to secure the anchor.
We convoyed forty or fifty transports, containing the cavalry, and brought them all safe to an anchor off Cadsand.
Emily was to me what the Dutchman's best anchor was to him--he kept it at home, for fear of losing it.
The emperor informed me that an American whaler was lying at the east side of the island, filling with the oil of the walrus, or sea-horse; that she had been there at anchor six weeks, and was nearly full.
The British fleet was at anchoroutside the French ships moored in a line off the Isle d'Aix.
The place where the gallant ship had rode at anchor for so many weeks was vacant--all was still and lonely.
One of the shot had struck the fluke of the anchor in the fore-chains.
Much would I admire the gravity with which he would deplore the impossibility of stopping his Majesty's ship Eos by anything short of an anchor and good holding ground.
After remaining at anchor in the Downs during the night, we sailed next morning down the channel without stopping at Spithead, our ultimate destination being still a profound secret.
Now the threads are fixed by the foot, just where the Mussel wishes to anchor himself.
Besides food and drink, they need a firm anchor in the loose sand.
As Mr. Gidge began to work the windlass, Cabot sprang to help him, and, within a minute, the recently dropped anchorwas again broken out.
After they had come to anchor and lowered the sails, White got an empty water cask into the dinghy, saying that first of all they must go about a mile to a trout stream at the head of the bay for some fresh water.
The moment the anchor snaps, the storm comes on, the stars vanish behind the cloud.
Again the anchor snapped, again the storm descended, again the stars vanished.
Signal to Squadron A to up-anchor at once and telephone to Squadron B to do the same.
The instant she dropped heranchor a couple of destroyers ran out from the Gravesend shore and ranged alongside her.
When Vice-Admiral Codrington, who was flying his flag on the Irresistible, saw the flashes along the Hillsea ridge and Portsdown height and heard the roar of the explosions, he at once up-anchor and got his squadron under way.
His own unconquerable, unanswerable experience, the blank realities of pleasure and pain, put to flight all arguments whatsoever that anchor only in his understanding.
Soon after sunrise the next morning, a heavenly morning of June, we dropped our anchor in the famous Bay of Dublin.
The friend explained that, it being but seven o'clock in the morning, the charmer probably could not be seen, and so the captain in his spangles and lace was gotten on board ship and the anchor hoisted.
In selecting environment, do not pick one too propitious, otherwise you will plant your roses in muck, when what they demand for exercise is a little difficulty in way of a few rocks to afford an anchor for roots.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anchor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
