Anchors are the money is I fancy, and weather Per mett I have Got a whale boat to fish for itt and Things for that service.
Anchors and Cables, which wee att that time was Ill provided with.
Stanley then ordered the anchors up, and gave directions to move the canoes to within fifty yards of the shore, and each soldier to select his man and fire as though he was shooting birds.
Outriding storm fury, the steamer for needed repairs anchors off Indian shore, whence she continues her eccentric course.
Our orders were to lay the vessel on the boom which the French had moored to the outer anchors of their ships of the line.
The stoppers were cut, and the anchors dropped; the brig immediately recovered herself from her oppression, as it were, and resumed her former velocity; but the enemy had by this time made fearful approaches.
A seaman crawled aft on the quarter-deck, and screaming into the ear of the captain, informed him that one of the anchors had broke adrift, and was hanging by the cable under the bows.
He used other anchors in different ports, that answered the purpose tolerably well; but this best bower he always intended to ride by in the Nieu deep, when he had escaped all the dangers and quicksands of foreign shores: such was Emily to me.
With eager haste the anchors were weighed, the sails spread, and the two ships, after being shut up for ten whole months and a part of September, sailed out of Winter Harbour, and stood round the shore of Melville Sound.
Three of their anchors were lost, and the vessels, driving together, nearly knocked each other to pieces.
Their anchors were of hard wood, with stones fastened to the shanks, so that they might sink to the bottom.
The anchors being dropped, the boats manned, he, richly attired in scarlet and holding the royal standard, accompanied by the Pinzons in their own boats, approached the shore.
They now, however, came in a very different spirit; for several of them caught hold of two anchors which hung over the bows, and began tugging away, expecting to draw the ship ashore.
The greatest difficulty is in the bringing of the anchors and rigging from Vera Cruz.
The anchors and necessary grappling tackle should be brought from the same country, together with the slaves already mentioned.
Then fearing lest we should fall upon rough places, they cast four anchors out of the stern: and wished for the day.
But as the shipmen sought to fly out of the ship, having let down the boat into the sea, under colour, as though they would have cast anchors out of the forepart of the ship, 27:31.
But the Grampus--it will take time for those aboard to get up the anchors and to come to the wharf for us!
How can we do it if the anchors hang to the bottom?
If the anchors are clear they can be carried this way while the chain is being taken in.
A large number of men were at work making ready to break the cargo; others were running out anchors to prevent her being driven any further ashore, and yet another crew was gathering up the odds and ends which had been driven ashore.
When the waves began to run high the master of the vessel had gotten out anchors fore and aft to prevent her from being driven shoreward.
Extra caution being used there, the appliances of anchors and warps were efficacious, and we passed the double successfully.
That night they lodged close by the beast, casting their cables about him, and anchored near unto him: their anchors are huge and great, made of glass, but of a wonderful strength.
The topmasts and topgallant masts were sent down on deck, and fresh anchors were got out.
Morn had just broken; a southerly wind blew gently down the harbour, and Captain Villegagnon gave the order to lift the heavy anchors from their oozy beds.
The anchors were speedily got up, and with sad hearts the emigrants left their native shores.
The anchorswere dropped close to one of the first isles they reached.
And then out again to the boats with shoutings and farewells, for the tide has now turned; hoisting of sails and tripping of anchors and breaking out of gorgeous ensigns; and the ships are moving!
The gulf was here so much narrower, and the bottom so uneven and rocky, that an anchorage was now of material importance, but our poverty in anchors made me fearful of risking our last upon a bottom of the least questionable nature.
In the byssus of some mussels we find as many as a hundred and fifty of these small threads, with which the animal anchors itself most securely to the rock.
Before the captain had descended from the summit of the northern barrier, the vessel came in under her jib, the wind being nearly aft, and she dropped two anchors in suitable spots, making another flying moor of it.
The ice-anchors were cut out accordingly, the jib was hoisted, and the schooner wore short round on her heel.
The only hope now was that the flukes of the anchors might catch in better holding ground than they had yet met with.
With the certainty that there was enough of the element to keep him clear of the ground at low water, and that his anchors would hold, Roswell made a flying moor, and veered out enough cable to render his vessel secure.
Science and art are like a certain kind of barge with kedge-anchors which used to ply on our rivers.
Belisarius ordered the sails to be lowered, the anchors dropped, and summoned all the leaders of the troops to a council of war on his own ship.
In the harbor the ships are rocking, impatiently tugging at their anchors in the east wind, their eager prows turned toward the west.
The Hermes lets go her anchorsand swings broadside-on to the Fort.
When the last pursuing boat is fast on the mud banks, Lieutenant Jones anchors his six cockleshells where the English may only get at him in small boats, and awaits results.
The English fleet arrives and anchors off the Louisiana coast.
In the vicinity of Yakutsk he established an iron foundry and furnace, whence the various vessels were supplied with anchors and other articles of iron.
The timber for this vessel had been hauled to the ship-yard by dogs; the tar they had prepared themselves, while rigging, cable, and anchors had been dragged nearly two thousand miles through one of the most desolate regions of the earth.
At this place the ground is much higher than it was formerly, since at Chatham the bones of an hippopotamus were found seventeen feet deep in the earth, together with anchors and marine shells.
In the port of Livourne, where the sea is much more calm, I saw a tempest in December, 1731, wherein they were obliged to cut down the masts of some vessels that had been forced from their anchors by the wind, and driven into the road.
I had seen them there, their anchors down, on the very ocean bed where the Greek anchors had rested when they planned their descent on Troy to rescue the beautiful Helen.
She had her anchors still, no doubt; but to let go her anchors under her nose in such a sea and with such a way on would be the wildest act of madness.
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