| 单词 | sheet anchor |
| 例句 | Yet, Jane — Tomalin calls her “the true heroine of this story” — remained the sheet anchor of his life, as well as his typist. Review | H.G. Wells wanted to change the world. A new book explores the author’s outsize ambitions 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Politicized religion is the sheet anchor of the dreary forty-year-old culture wars. GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party 2012-08-05T16:00:00Z But to Abraham Lincoln, these principles were “the sheet anchor of American republicanism.” When Republicans were actually republican: Is that a basis for renewal? 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z The feels "the world has enough problems without losing the surety of its sole superpower, the country which despite its faults remains the sheet anchor for the world's security and economy". Indian media: Anger over 'shameful' slavery data 2013-10-18T07:08:32Z Sound finance is the sheet anchor of any Government, whether despotic or democratic. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z As a last resort, Porter let go his sheet anchor, which brought the head of his vessel round so that his broadsides again bore. The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:38.213Z They eventually raised their sheet anchor, which had been dragging at the bows, got up their mainyard, and generally got the ship in something like sailing trim. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z This remembrance and impression is the sheet anchor of his steadfastness. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z Now the bower and the sheet anchor are usually alike. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z After getting the sheet anchor to the bows, and the broken one in-board, we weighed and made sail to windward, in search of a good anchorage. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z But as a general matter, conservatives respect the Constitution for the limitations it imposes on the power of the state and believe the Declaration of Independence is the “sheet anchor” of our liberties. What Is a Conservative? 2012-02-02T13:00:16Z We have trusted to it as to the sheet anchor of our safety in the stormy times of conflict with a foreign or domestic foe. The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One In The Government of The United States. Its Cause, and How it Should be Met 2012-01-12T03:00:13.627Z Perish the people then, but hold fast to this sheet anchor. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z Geoffrey Hamlyn was my sheet anchor, but did not seem to be supported by the scraps of prosaic history obtainable; we could not verify those charming homes and social customs. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z There are certain general principles that will be our sheet anchors at all times and for all cases. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z London I thought incredibly tiresome; I wanted my sheet anchors,—you and poor George Ellis,—by whom I could ride at quiet moorings without mixing entirely in the general vortex. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 2011-10-07T02:00:22.270Z He was not sure yet that she purposely avoided him, and he was sure that she had smiled when they met, and that one fact was his sheet anchor just now. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z I know the doctors call it one of their sheet anchors. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z "It used to be quite different in the olden days when every woman was five foot six, and four men could easily have worked a frigate's capstan and raised the sheet anchor." Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z "There's no way it can be done except by setting the sheet anchor thirty or forty fathoms toward the mouth of the harbor and working down to it by sheer expenditure of muscle." A Runaway Brig; or, An Accidental Cruise 2011-01-02T03:00:16.390Z For a time he followed the business of making anchors for vessels but was soon called to the more important work of aiding in the construction of the sheet anchor of freedom. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution "But Lewis can say, as he did before, that he won't help them if harm comes to us," I persisted, unwilling to abandon this sheet anchor of hope. Highway Pirates or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne Evergreens are the sheet anchor, relieved with a few deciduous shrubs grouped amongst them. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens "You used to sing 'Ye banks and braes o' bonny Doon' sweetly," says Julia, when she has recovered from a vigorous yawn, got through quite safely behind her sheet anchor—I mean her fan. Portia or By Passions Rocked Feeble as he had been, yet he had always earned something, and had indeed been their sheet anchor. Ditte: Girl Alive! His sheet anchor, in which he had trusted implicitly, had suddenly dragged—and he was drifting fast to destruction. The Brass Bottle But Tom knew that I had taken the will; that I had deprived him of his sheet anchor. Seek and Find or The Adventures of a Smart Boy “Why,” replied he, taking a fresh quid of tobacco, “I would let go the sheet anchor.” A Sailor of King George We then let go the sheet anchor and gave her two cables on that also, but she would not look at it. Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II Don’t fly no false colors, sticks to his job, ready to take hold of anything from a lobster pot to a sheet anchor,—honest grit straight through. Killykinick He showed me that my drawings—the one sketch, at any rate, which I held sacred—would prove my sheet anchor when I was brought into the stormy waters of inquest and law courts. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of our liberties; write its precepts on your hearts, and practice them in your lives. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 I would first furl all and run under the storm forestay sail, unfid the topmasts going in, and have a long range of both bower cables on deck, and the sheet anchor ready. A Sailor of King George To a sheet anchor a stout hempen cable is generally bent, as lightening the strain at the bow, and being more elastic. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. She rode for about an hour, but then drove; the sheet anchor was now let go, and a whole cable wore away, and the ship rode for about two hours longer, when she drove again. Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. The sheet anchor was let go, and alone now kept the brig from destruction. The Three Midshipmen Let the Constitution remain; it has hitherto been, and will continue to be, the palladium of our rights, the sheet anchor of our safety. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 He knew the ship had three masts and a sheet anchor. A Sailor of King George It blew very hard from the west so that we had to lower the topmasts and let drop the sheet anchor. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Gwen's one sheet anchor of hope, to which she clung in a kind of desperation, was the thought of the postal orders that Grannie and Aunt Violet almost invariably sent at Christmas. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story As soon as the best bower cable was nearly out, the sheet anchor and small bower were let go at the same moment, and the result was to be ascertained. Percival Keene The chain cables of the sheet anchors had been secured up and down the sides of the vessels, abreast the engines, to resist the impact of projectiles. The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. Smiling grog is the sailor’s best hope, his sheet anchor, His compass, his cable, his log, That gives him a heart which life’s cares cannot canker. Jacob Faithful First we got the lee quarter-deck guns and carronades overboard; then we hurried forward and launched one of the forecastle guns into the sea, and cut away the sheet anchor. Hurricane Hurry By this time it was again night; the rollers had greatly increased, and should the sheet anchor give way, it was clear that nothing could save the ship. The Three Admirals “I should cut away the masts and bring up with my sheet anchor.” From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure Churchmen cling to it as a sheet anchor in controversy with Nonconformists. The Parables of Our Lord His caprices remain the sheet anchor of the would-be virtuoso. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Its prevention was his sheet anchor of hope. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon The sheet anchor was then weighed, when, on its coming above water, it was found that both the flukes had gone. The Three Admirals They then let go an eighth, which was the sheet anchor; the ship still drove, but the anchors at length took fast hold. The Norwegian account of Haco's expedition against Scotland, A.D. MCCLXIII. Need a sheet anchor to keep 'em from sliding down the mountain! The Freebooters of the Wilderness Our public schools therefore form one of the chief cornerstones of our American republic; they are the sheet anchor of our hopes. Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light That it is her sheet anchor, sure and fast? When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth Captain Biddle threw overboard some of his heavy spars, cut away the sheet anchor and flung several tons of kentledge into the sea. Dewey and Other Naval Commanders They have no sheet anchor out to windward. Craftsmanship in Teaching Yet it is instructive and pregnant with warning to remark that, as soon as the sheet anchor of high resolve is gone, the frailties of man tend to become master-vices. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 These are the two sheet anchors of our Union. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 From the recent debate on "Doctors and Secrecy":— "If you begin to open the door you take away the sheet anchor upon which our professional work is based." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920 On this account I could regard my employment at this time only as a sheet anchor, to be let go as soon as an opportunity offered itself to resume my vocation. Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. Bacon, however, is the soldier's sheet anchor; and, the variety of forms in which he can cook and prepare for eating this article, while in the field, would astonish even a French chef de cuisine. The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself For house and clothes, for food and medicine, the coco-nut palm is their sheet anchor, as well as their ornament and amusement, who dwell in the torrid zone. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. For moral authority at that conjuncture was the sheet anchor of the principal delegates. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Come, come, my dear Sir Pertinax, you must not be angry with the serjeant for his insisting so warmly on this point—for those boroughs, you know, are my sheet anchor. The Man of the World (1792) When the ambassadors returned, and the Senate heard their report, they determined in this dreadful extremity to let go their sheet anchor. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I Next day the weather moderated a bit, and, heaving up her sheet anchor, she rode to her best bower. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Massachusetts by its Homestead Commission is encouraging its citizens to own real estate because such ownership is a sheet anchor to self-government. Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. A Collection of Speeches and Messages One clause in the American Treaty was afterwards regarded by the Korean ruler as the sheet anchor of his safety, until storm came and it was found that the sheet anchor did not hold. Korea's Fight for Freedom The experiment was tried with a small four-oared gig, and succeeded; but a six-oared cutter was jerked against the sheet anchor by the violence of the shocks, and being stove, was filled with water. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 So Drake traded for all the spices he could stow away and concluded a sort of understanding which formed the sheet anchor of English diplomacy in Eastern seas for another century to come. Elizabethan Sea Dogs This doctrine, consistently acted upon by Europe, has been the sheet anchor of the Ottoman empire for a century. The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey Her only sheet anchor of comfort during that long, dull afternoon and evening was the thought that Bubbles' life was set on the right lines at last ... and that Mark Gifford had not changed. From out the Vasty Deep He designated them as the sheet anchor of Great Britain—the prop that supported her maritime superiority—the strongholds of her power. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829 Even the Sabbath, that blessed institution which is one of the sheet anchors of human existence, is encroached upon. In Darkest England and the Way Out Hence it appears that the nautical propensity of this great people is therein represented—'bower' being in fact a sheet anchor. The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume I (of II) The genial, if somewhat abstracted, motherliness of her welcome had been, indeed, his sheet anchor throughout the evening. The Market-Place Kinnaird was Byron's "trusty and trustworthy trustee and banker, and crown and sheet anchor." The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 Her love was a sheet anchor which held in the stormiest seas. Authors and Friends The sight of it is enough to frighten a land-lubber into hysterics, and conjure up a hurricane in the harbor before we can let go the sheet anchor. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale From the first day I met him, I, a cynical disillusioned wastrel, he a raw yet uncompromising lad, I felt that here, somehow, was a sheet anchor in my life. The Mountebank The New Testament is committed to the same conviction as that to which the faith of Old Testament saints clung as the sheet anchor of their lives. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Woman was the sheet anchor of the Church. Equality Faith and hope in these doctrines as cherished by woman are the sheet anchors of our unknit civilizations. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" In them stores you can buy anything and buy it cheap—cheapness is Ebenezer's stronghold and job lots is his sheet anchor. Cape Cod Stories And he turned to her and clung to her as if she was his only real sheet anchor. Galusha the Magnificent And yet he clings anxiously to his creed, as to a straw, thinking that that does him good service because his sheet anchor does not drag. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers The captain had come to be what Mrs. Barnes called the "sheet anchor" of the High Cliff House. Thankful's Inheritance They instinctively rallied to uphold Law, the slow product of centuries of growth, the sheet anchor of Society in a time of change. Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography Indeed, he was reflecting as he walked in the dusk, Mrs. Spaniel was now his sheet anchor. 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