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Updated: May 18, 2025
I am a business man have always been a business man do not know anything but business and so you can imagine how like being struck by lightning it was to find myself in a country where written contracts were worthless! that main security, that sheet-anchor, that absolute necessity, of business. My confidence left me. There was no use in making new contracts that was plain.
Meanwhile, the Irish in Nova Scotia had been roused against him. He returned from a mission on which he had hoped to win Imperial reputation under a cloud of failure, out of pocket, and with the Catholic vote, for the past twenty years his sheet-anchor, alienated. Other misfortunes followed.
"I have no doubt the Bellevite knows her business in this case, and that she will attend to it in due time," added the lieutenant. "Good!" exclaimed the sheet-anchor man, suddenly. This exclamation was called forth by a flag, which was run up at the peak, and which proved to be that of the Confederacy as soon as it was spread out to the breeze. "She is plucky, anyhow," added Christy.
In fine, both at sea and ashore, according to his theory, jolly Jack has little to do but make love, sing, dance, and drink grog being 'his sheet-anchor, his compass, his cable, his log; and in the True British Sailor, we are told that 'Jack is always content. Now, Jack knows very well this is all 'long-shore palaver, and he gives a shy hail to such palpable lime-twigs.
And when that sheet-anchor is once lost, anything may happen to the ship; however gay its trim, however taut its sides, however delicate and beautiful the curve of its prow, it may drive before the gale, it may be dashed pitilessly among the iron rocks, or stranded hopelessly upon the harbour bar.
If he was hung round with all the gold and silver medals he deserves to have, he'd go to the bottom life-preserver though he is like the sheet-anchor of a seventy-four, he would." "What's that about going to the bottom?" said Bax, who came aft at the moment.
France is upon us. She knows how disunited are the princes of Germany, and their discord is her sheet-anchor. She knows that you are unprepared to meet her, and the emperor, being at present too far to come to your rescue, she will attack you before you have time to defend yourselves. Is it possible that you have sunk all patriotism in contemptible jealousies of one another? I cannot believe it!
He can go to jail if he prefers: whatever he does, always there is that sheet-anchor of a pension to windward. Apart from the fighting end of it, most of us possibly do not know just what navy life means to-day. We all know that man-of-war's men no longer lie out on rolling yard arms to reef salt-crusted sails in gales of wind; but in what else lies the difference?
So I've made it right with a couple of chaps as I've know'd these years past, and we can do a touch now and then, as well as you grand gentlemen, on the "high toby", as they call it where I came from. 'I didn't think you were such an old fool, Ben, said Starlight; 'but keeping this place here a dead secret is our sheet-anchor. Lose that, and we'll be run into in a week.
"Here, McCarthy," he cried out to the first mate, who, ever intent on duty, was busily engaged in trimming matters amidships, having the lashings of the longboat and spare spars overhauled in readiness for the next sea that might flood the decks for nothing could be done about the wreck of the foremast till the gale moderated, as to loose it now would be to lose their sheet-anchor.
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