The mists swept from the wooded hills, And, rolling seaward, hid the anchored ships.
Out on the river the owners of the anchored boats prepared them happily for action, setting sails and oiling engines and hauling laboriously at anchors.
But they came soon past Wapping into a wide and quieter reach; and here there were many ships and many barges, some anchored and some slowly moving, like ships in a dream.
To England, however, he resolved to go; and, sighting its coast on the 25th of June, he anchored at Spithead on the following day.
He was off Algiers on the 3rd of July, and on the 12th he anchored in the harbour of Messina.
Proceeding southward, he anchored in Callao Roads from the 25th of April till the 10th of May.
The day after the shipanchored it began to rain, and, as it showed no signs of clearing up at the end of three weeks, the captain was besought to look out for another site for the city where it was not quite so wet.
Sometimes when the sperm-whaling fleet was cruising northwards and westward to the Moluccas, a ship would sail along the coast in the daytime, but always anchored at night, for it was dreaded for the many dangerous reefs that surround it.
On arriving at Williamston, I was sentenced to two months' imprisonment--during which time I was confined on board a hulk anchored in Hobson's Bay.
He endeavoured to persuade me against returning to the colonies--urging me to go into some business in London, get anchored to a wife, and live happily like himself!
He gazed at the boats and at the anchored ships beyond.
In that same summer King Olaf was back again in the Thrandheim country, and had his fleet anchored off Nidaros.
For two days after the time when Olaf's fleet anchoredabreast of the gates of Jomsburg, there was the work of inspecting all his men and ships and arms.
The snow still lay deep upon the islands when he entered the wide channel named Scapa Flow, and anchored his fleet under shelter of the high island of Hoy.
He arrived off the Wendish coast without being in any way molested, and he anchored his fleet in the great bay of Stetten haven.
When Olaf entered the mouth of the fiord with his five longships and anchored off Agdaness, he heard that Earl Hakon was lying with his ships farther up the firth, and also that he was at strife with the bonders.
At length the bark is anchored in the port of rest; Alvira is summoned to her crown.
The next evening found Henry and Charles, with two hundred men, on board the ship that had anchored on the coast the day before.
When they had sayl'd along the seas, And anchored uppon Dover, Our Englishmen did board them then, And cast the Spaniards over.
Teignmouth was last troubled by an enemy in 1690, when Admiral de Tourville, having defeated the united English and Dutch fleets off Beachy Head, sailed down the Channel and anchored one night in Tor Bay.
After destroying some merchantmen in the Bristol channel, they anchored in Fishguard bay.
The French fleet was anchored in line on the western side of the bay, with wide shoals between it and the shore.
He anchored off Naples on the 17th, and believing that the enemy would attack Sicily, passed through the straits of Messina, and sailed along the east of the island.
On February 12 the shipsanchored in Queen Charlotte's Sound.
On the 12th Maitea was seen, and soon after Otaheite hove in sight, and the next day the ships anchored in the Bay of Oheitepeha.
On the evening of the 28th the ships anchored off Komango, and the next morning canoes came off with all sorts of provisions.
The next day the ships anchored off Cape Town, where Captain Cook and his officers were received by the Governor and other authorities with attention and respect.
On September 1 the line was crossed, and the usual ceremonies were observed; on October 18 the ship anchored in Table Bay.
A canoe came boldly off, and the people in her pointed out Anamocka, or Rotterdam, towards which the ship proceeded, and anchored on the north side of the island.
On the 23rd the ships again anchoredin the harbour of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
The next island visited was Ulietea, where, within the coral reef, the ship anchored in a good harbour.
On March 15 the Endeavour anchored in Table Bay, near the Cape of Good Hope, where Captain Cook's first care was to provide a place for the sick on shore.
The Endeavour anchored two miles within the bay, in six-fathom water, abreast of a small village consisting of six or eight huts.
The Resolution sailed on the 19th, passing the island of Terceira, and on the 29th made the land near Plymouth, and the next morninganchored at Spithead.
One day we were outside in the trawler, and there was a French boat anchored a bit of a way off.
When I came out of the weaver's, a little sailing smack was anchored in the sound, and someone on board her was blowing a horn.
Third person already anchored beside open packing-case, enormous sand-bag gaping between his knees, little sealed packets flying through his hands from box to bag in twins and triplets.
The grand fleet of huts will soon be anchored there--including, as I hope, the new Rest Hut that was to have been tucked up close behind the Line.
Before the sun had descended half-way to its rest the brig was anchored within a gunshot of the slimy mangroves, in a place where for a hundred years or more no white man's vessel had been entrusted to the hold of the bottom.
He felt nowhere so much at home as when his brig was anchored on the inner side of the great stretch of shoals.
Hassim returned to his canoe, then he and his sister, paddling cautiously round the anchored praus, in which women's voices could be heard, approached the other end of the camp.
When the brig was anchored within the Shallows it was in her that he visited the lagoon.
The glitter of the roadstead went out, and the masts of anchored ships vanished in the invading shadow of a cloud.
Black and toylike in the clear depths and the final stillness of the evening the brig and the schooner lay anchored in the middle of the main channel with their heads swung the same way.
One misty morning I moved the brig nearer the sandbank and directly the mist cleared I opened fire on the praus of those savages which were anchored in the channel.
Presently she threaded another passage, anchored and took in her sails in a still lagoon.
We anchored in Rotten Row, with mooring lines made fast to the identical old man-of-war boilers from which they had been cast loose on our departure for the Marquesas, four months previously.
They were well up the gully through which the stream off which the yacht was anchored ran, for, finding the place rich in specimens, they had toiled up higher and higher that morning.
Let's see; we anchored east side first, then we went round andanchored west, and you say we've been travelling south.
They were soon to learn for certain, as they followed the bright path of light which minute by minute grew clearer, till they could see as it were right up to the anchored yacht.
After this, the British vessels anchored at the entrance of the harbor.
The summer came and passed away, and the ships were still anchored in the French harbor.
It was several months before the Friendship anchored at the mouth of the Rappahannock River.
Paul Jones anchored the Ranger at Brest and went to Paris to deliver his letter, and lay his plans before the commissioners.
On account of a high sea, to cross the bar that night would be a dangerous undertaking, and the vessel was therefore anchored until morning.
Admiral Farragut thenanchored about four miles up the bay.
This was a very dangerous undertaking, as the vessel was anchored in the midst of the Tripolitan fleet.
But, moving north with great rapidity, abandoning much of his artillery and supplies, he escaped the net Joffre had spread for him, and anchored himself securely behind the Aisne.
A few lurking fish and mollusks were snatched from the dark interior by those insinuating and inexorable feelers; and a toothsome harvest of anchored crustaceans was gathered from the hidden surfaces along beside the keel.
But he was anchored to the wreck as if he had grown to it.
The night that the squadron anchored at the back of Berryhead, Buonaparte sent for me about 10 P.
Count Bertrand went into the cabin, and informed Buonaparte of it, who came upon deck about half-past four, and remained on the poop until the ship anchored in Torbay.
The whole squadron then stood in, and anchored to the westward of Berryhead.
The Policy was anchored between the Cove and Pinchgut, ready for sea.
I did see a boat a while ago, and thought it was ours, but it turned out to be one from that Batavian Dutchman anchored below Pinchgut.
Wilson held on to the anchored trace whilst the rest of us laboured at the leader end.
As soon as we grasped the position, we hauled the sledge clear of the bridge and anchored it.
We have all been away on ski on the large floe to which we anchored this morning.
So here firmly anchored was the huge piece broken from the Glacier Tongue in March, a huge tract about 2 miles long, which has turned through half a circle, so that the old western end is now towards the east.
