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The first dhow had now got sufficiently to the northward to haul in for the anchorage, her helm was put down, and, heeling fearfully over, she made her way towards it Good heavens!"— The Three Commanders
What the anchorage was like--mud--and why mud?— Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General
The vines had failed for several years previous to our visit; but the inhabitants had substituted the cultivation of vegetables for which they found a market on the continent and in England; and the numerous cultivated patches along the mountain sides presented a very pretty appearance from the anchorage--laid out as they were with seemingly geometrical precision.— The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner
Before night we had gained the anchorage, and furled sails.— The Pacha of Many Tales
Between Aden and the Persian Gulf it is the only harbour where ships of any size can find anchorage, and it may, in fact, be said to play much the same part with respect to the Persian Gulf that Aden does to the Red Sea.— Southern Arabia

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