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Examples
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Time and again, that afternoon, Arnold Bentham, for our sakes, begged that we come to a sea-anchor.
Chapter 19 2010
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Captain Oudouse had on the Petite Jeanne something I had never before seen on a South Sea schooner a sea-anchor.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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Here the sea was calm, save for a heavy but smooth ground-swell, and I took in the sea-anchor and began to row.
Chapter 28 2010
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We should have rounded the boat to, had our situation not been so desperate, and let her drift bow-on to a sea-anchor extemporized of our mast and sail.
Chapter 19 2010
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Time and again, that afternoon, Arnold Bentham, for our sakes, begged that we come to a sea-anchor.
Chapter 19 2010
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This was dead in our teeth, but I took in the sea-anchor and set sail, hauling a course on the wind which took us in a south-south-easterly direction.
Chapter 28 2010
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By the time it was dark, wind and sea had become too strong for the boat, and I reluctantly took in the sail and set about making a drag or sea-anchor.
Chapter 27 2010
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The boat was now very close, and I could make out plainly that it was lying head to wind and sea and dragging on its mast and sail, which had been thrown overboard and made to serve as a sea-anchor.
Chapter 17 2010
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In three hours — it was midnight, I well remember, and as dark as I had ever seen it on the sea — the wind, still blowing out of the south-west, rose furiously, and once again I was compelled to set the sea-anchor.
Chapter 28 2010
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We should have rounded the boat to, had our situation not been so desperate, and let her drift bow-on to a sea-anchor extemporized of our mast and sail.
Chapter 19 2010
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