Being so unprepared for the contest, and so greatly outnumbered, the British ships weighed their anchors and set sail.

Arriving they cast their anchor near the city, which was at the top of a high mountain.

The sea was deep and bottomless, and there was no place where they could drop anchor and stop.

"But if dear Aunt Patience will only lift her anchor all will yet be well, and the dear twins will not need to be bothered with anything so beastly as farm-work."

Having returned to our ships, we raised anchor and set sail, turning our prows southwardly, as it was my intention to see whether I could sail around a point of land which Ptolemy calls the Cape of Cattegara, which is near the Great Bay.

Sometimes when they arrive, they cannot go ashore at all, but have to wait several days, taking refuge behind a small island ten miles away, lest they drag their anchors and be dashed to pieces on the shore.

The wind then began to breeze up lightly from the northward, when we got up the anchor and made sail.

Their presence there seemed too good to be true, and all awaited the moment when the ship should heave anchor.

'I hope that dear Mrs. Boswell will surmount her complaints; in losing her you would lose your anchor, and be tost, without stability, by the waves of life.

Next morning the captain of the Xenophon sent ashore for Lieutenant Matson to come aboard, as they were about to hoist anchor.

He therefore gave orders to carry all their anchors out to deep water, to prevent her from getting farther on the shoal.

At five o'clock it was light enough to see that it was a bold rocky shore, against which the waves dashed high and furiously, but it was too late to choose a place for landing, and the captain ordered the anchors raised.

There was no more intriguing on behalf of the Ikshidids; Tinnis was recovered from its temporary defection and occupied by the reinforcements which Moizz had hurriedly despatched under Ibn-Ammar to the succor of Gawhar; and the Karmati fleet, which attempted to recover this fort, was obliged to slip anchor, abandoning seven ships and five hundred prisoners.

Mr. P. immediately perceived the advantages of this condition of things to a a gentleman suffering from the heat, and procuring a boat, he rowed close to the foot of a cascade formed by the inclination in the bed of the river, and throwing out his anchor, revelled in the luxury of the cool spray and the refreshing sound of the rushing water.

We have got some five or six of them fairly underweigh, as Jack would say, and hope the remainder will speedily trip their anchors and follow.

When even then the pursuers pressed him hard, some of Caesar's ships suddenly cut their anchors and unexpectedly offered opposition.

For twenty-four hours the awful grandeur of these scenes was gloried in, when Captain Hunter gave the order to draw the anchor and steam away.

So we pulled up anchor, not Hankering for any more such sport, and left the Hook, very glad to Hook It.

Owing to the bad construction of the buoy, it did not watch; and, as the tide quickly swept us from the place, we had no chance left of recovering the anchor.

The captain at once gave orders to clear away the anchors.

I remember one day, when Tom Davies was telling that Dr. Johnson said, We are all in labour for a name to Goldy's play,' Goldsmith cried 'I have often desired him not to call me Goldy.' Between six and seven we hauled our anchor, and set sail with a fair breeze; and, after a pleasant voyage, we got safely and agreeably into the harbour of Tobermorie, before the wind rose, which it always has done, for some days, about noon.

Call all hands, and break anchor as soon as we are aboard.

With a roar like distant artillery, or an approaching thunder-storm, the advancing walls of this great monster split and fall into the watery deep, which has been sounded to a depth of some 800 feet without finding anchor.

" Montgomery stayed on board and when the tug returned with coal they hove anchor and began the long run to Las Palmas.

Having seized a small trading boat, he plundered her, and then fastened the crewfive in numberround the anchor, suspended it from the bows, cut the cable, and let the anchor, with its living burden, sink to the bottom.