It was the hank of a spare anchor, balanced for an instant on the rail, then sent crashing down through the frail bottom of the boat beneath.

" The grapnel, or little anchor, was thrown over quickly enough; and the two boys were in such an eager haste that they had hardly a word to say to Dick, though he was now but a few rods away.

Guinea score a foul anchor, in your own fashion, on a half dozen of the shot; and, after the matter is all over, they who live through it may go aboard the enemy, and see in what manner Richard Fid has planted his seed.

He also perceived that the light anchor, or large kedge, by which le Feu-Follet rode, was under foot, as seamen term it; or that the cable was nearly "up and down."

Here also were the magnetic-anchor release and the air-skid pump control; here were telephonic connections with the wireless-room and with the fore-and-aft observation pits, where observers were already lying on their cushions upon the heavy, metal-reinforced glass floor-plates.

Besides food and drink, they need a firm anchor in the loose sand.

For some reason or other they halted the Pegasus outside the Hamoazedropped anchor in Cawsand Bay, in fact; and there, getting leave for shore, the young fool met his fate on Cawsand quay.

As to the centre all things that have weight Sink from the surface: as the silly mouse Runs at a venture, rash though timorous, Into the monster's jaws to meet her fate: Thus all who love high Science, from the strait Dead sea of Sophistry sailing like us Into Truth's ocean, bold and amorous, Must in our haven anchor soon or late.

Nine A.M.At about eight we heaved anchor, having carefully buoyed this very awkward passage.

2. prefers the waters of Apona before all artificial baths whatsoever in this disease, and would have one nine years affected with hypochondriacal passions fly to them as to a holy anchor.

or, in what service did he learn his trade?" "Ay, ay," continued another sinister voice, "where is the Bristol trader he was to lead into our net, and for which we lost so many of the best days in the season, at a lazy anchor?"

Others were relashing the galley, hauling the loose anchor and all the anchors up on the rail, and resetting the loose lee rigging, which threatened at every lurch to let the masts go by the board.

She might have been very happy, but for a mental anchor fast to that gloomy mood of the morning....

Even now, notwithstanding the obstructions caused by the immense deposits of ship-yard refuse at its mouth, a few of these fine fish are caught every season by one or two persevering anglers from Quebec,men who thrive on disappointment,whose fish-hooks are miniature anchors of Hope.

Sharp it was, and Ford himself lent a hand; and, in another moment, the white sails went down, jib and main; "The Swallow" was drifting along under bare poles, and Dick Lee and Ford were waiting the captain's orders to let go the neat little anchor.

But the cables were no sooner taut than the numerous anchors resisted, and brought the bark head to wind.

"Ready, Sir, ready" Ludlow motioned to the men at the wheel, to bring the ship to the wind; and when her way was sufficiently deadened, two ponderous anchors dropped, at another signal, into the water.

Later, as Loring knew, the sentimental anchor had dragged until it was hopelessly off holding-ground.

At night, owing to the strength of the tides, the stern anchor came home, and the cutter swung across the tide.

He was not senseless, but in a kind of stupor: his head had struck the fluke of a half-sunk anchor and it had stunned him, but as the wound bled he recovered slowly and opened his eyes.

Obeying the same invisible helmsman, it there paused and rocked gently backwards and forwards as over an unseen anchor.

Henceforth Hope should lend her torch to light my dearthher wings to bear me upher anchor wherewith to moor my hark of life wherever cast, and to the poor waif I cherished I owed this immeasurable good.

I was pleased with the place; it is picturesque, and has a kindly look; and as all places were alike to me then, save by the choice of a whim, I let go my weary anchor there.

The windward anchors creep, And the Gauger's fast asleep, And the kegs are bobbing one, two, three, Says the Lander:

At daylight the wind blew so hard as to prevent our picking up the broken anchor and we proceeded towards Mount Adolphus, passing half a mile to the eastward of Albany Islands that lie off the south-east end of Cape York.