anchored
adjective C1- Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor. (Compare sarcelly, moline.) · an anchored cross, or a cross anchored
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“Why, you know I told you,” replied Danglars, “that I considered the circumstance of his having anchored at the Island of Elba as a very suspicious circumstance.”
Night came, and at ten o’clock they anchored.
One fine morning, then, his yacht, followed by the little fishing-boat, boldly entered the port of Marseilles, and anchored exactly opposite the spot from whence, on the never-to-be-forgotten night of his departure for the Château d’If, he had been put on board the boat destined to convey him thither.
Arthur smiled and said, “May your performance possess the unyielding strength of a properly anchored suspension bridge.”
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