Morrison, perceiving that he had no chance of escape, let run the ankers of brandy that he might not be condemned; but still he was in an awkward situation, as he had more men on board than allowed by Act of Parliament.
She has some thousand yards of lace, a few hundred pounds of tea, a few bales of silk, and about fortyankers of brandy--just as much as they can land in one boat.
Vpon mine arriuall at my ships I found all my people in health, although very heauie for my long stay, and because the current had fretted fower of their cables, and that they had lost two ankers which were recouered.
They made stirrops of wood, and made ankers of their stirrops.
Far out, I could see the dark spars of the lugger 'Sea Pyet,' and hear the casks and ankersdumping into the boats alongside.
So with that the mannie gave a kind of laugh, and helped me down with the ankers far better than I could have expected.
Leave twa ankers a-piece o' brandy an' rum at our ain dyke back.
And the port of Alexandria is good when one is within it with good ankersand cables.
Being shot vp to the place aforesayd, called Punta del Galle, wee came to an anker in foule ground and lost the same, and lay all that night a drift, because we had nowe but two ankers left vs, which were vnstocked and in hold.
Vpon the twelft of October wee wayed our ankers at Ratcliffe and went to Blackwall.
This foresaid Keril said vnto me that one of the ankers which I borrowed was his.
This Gabriel declared vnto me that they had saued both the ankers and our hauser, and after we had thus communed, I caused 4 or 5 of them to goe into my cabbin, where I gaue them figs and made them such cheere as I could.
Thirty-two half ankers of Geneva, sixteen casks of tobacco, and six casks of tea were discovered in a vault in a plantation belonging to Lord Suffield by the coastguard stationed at Mundesley.
This foresaid Keril said vnto me that one of theankers which I borowed was his, I gaue him thanks for the lone of it, thinking it had bene sufficient.
Sunday (2) we had very much winde, with plenty of snow, and we rode with two ankers a head.
This Gabriel declared vnto me, that they had saued both the ankers and our hauser, and after we had thus communed, I caused 4 or 5 of them to goe into my cabbin, where I gaue them figs, and made them such cheere as I could.
The ebbe being spent, we could not double the pole, and therefore were constrained to put in againe vntill next day in the morning, being the last of May: which day wee wayed our ankers about 3.
Our ankers and ankresses professe nothing but a solitary lyfe in their hallowed house, wherein they are inclosed wyth the vowe of obedience to the pope, and to their ordinary bishop.
Notwithstanding, as the Whyte Fryers father that order on Helias the prophet (but falsely), so likewise do the ankers and ankresses make that holy and virtuous matrone Judith their patroness and foundress; but how unaptly who seeth not?
Who seeth not how farre our ankers and ankresses differe from the manners and life of this vertuous and godly woman Judith, so that they cannot justly claime her to be their patronesse?
A considerable amount of ingenuity must have been exercised in the case of an open four-oared boat which was seized at Dover together with twelve ankers of spirits.
The first of these belongs to Sandwich, where three half-ankers of foreign spirits were seized floating, being hidden in a sack, a bag of shingle weighing 30 lbs.
The officers came into collision with a party of these men and promptly seized two horse-loads of goods consisting of five bags of tea and eight half-ankers of wine.
They imported at least six tons of tea and two thousand half-ankers of brandy every week.
He further discovered 144 half-ankers of spirits, consisting of brandy and gin from across the Channel, which were subsequently taken to the Custom House at Dover.
In these lesser craft were frequently carried a great many stones, anchors, and heavy weights by means of which the half-ankers of brandy could be sunk near the shore and afterwards taken up as required.
Just before Christmas of 1819 the Custom officers at Weymouth seized on board a vessel named The Three Brothers sixteen half-ankers and seven small kegs or flaggons of foreign spirits.
But there were fifteen or so half-ankers underneath her hull, spirits of course being contained in these casks.
There was one concealment on each side of the keel, and each contained enough space to hold from twenty to twenty-four ankers of spirits.
The two ankers were quickly dragged up on to the platform, and one of them was broached with the aid of George's knife.
What difference can it make to the king, or to anybody else, if those men buy and sell a few ankers of brandy?
Item, 2 ankers of colouring stuff at 4 gallons per anker, price as usual.
Warned that her father would have no strangers coming to the manor, by his own lips, she kept secret the delightful meetings with Lister, and only when the two met at the cottage of Miss Ankers could they speak freely.
Here's the door, and by the light in the window I see that Miss Ankers is sitting up.
Looking up, she saw Dora Ankers on the hither side of the boundary channel.
But for all her innocent looks, Miss Ankers was a stern school-mistress, and during business hours behaved with great severity.
Next morning Miss Ankershad to teach in school as usual, and Bella was left to her own devices.
I shall be sorry, too, if a nice little woman like Miss Ankers marries such a backboneless creature.
Miss Ankers was much too romantic to mar the meeting by presenting herself as an inconvenient third.
Bella needed no urging, for she was genuinely concerned over the news, and sped towards Marshely like a fawn, with Miss Ankers at her heels.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ankers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
