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I hope, that, by this time, you are as well 'ancre' at Berlin as you was at Munich; but, if not, you are sure of being so at Dresden.

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1753-54 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

I hope, that, by this time, you are as well 'ancre' at Berlin as you was at Munich; but, if not, you are sure of being so at Dresden.

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So he "invented" a game where the players must keep their feet ancored (pied ancre) while throwing the boule and thus saving his knees!

Petanque - French Word-A-Day 2009

So he "invented" a game where the players must keep their feet ancored pied ancre while throwing the boule and thus saving his knees!

Petanque - French Word-A-Day 2009

- Encre (n.f.) et ancre (n.f.) (ink and anchor) pronounced "ahn-kre"

pareil - French Word-A-Day 2004

- Encre (n.f.) et ancre (n.f.) (ink and anchor) pronounced "ahn-kre"

French Word-A-Day: 2004

- Encre (n.f.) et ancre (n.f.) (ink and anchor) pronounced "ahn-kre"

French Word-A-Day: 2004

I hope, that, by this time, you are as well ancre at Berlin as you was at Munich; but, if not, you are sure of being so at Dresden.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

Generall Drake, according to their apointment, being vnder saile neuer strooke at the Ilands, but put straight to sea; whom all the fleet followed sauing three and thirty, which being in the riuer further then he, and at the entrance out of the same, finding the winde and tide too hard against them, were inforced to cast ancre there for that night; amongst whom, by good fortune, was the

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

The winde, at the first setting foorth, seemed very fauourable: but yet in the euening growing very scant, and all that night falling more and more against vs, and we hailing sayled no further then to a certaine place called Dodman Head: we were constrained the next day, to make our returne to the road of Plymmonth againe, and there in the Sownds to lie at ancre for that night.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003