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As for tonics, iron and gentian have been serviceable to a certain extent, but they have never cured the complaint. The nitrate of silver will be the sheet-anchor of the practitioner, and if early used will seldom deceive him. It should be combined with ginger, and given morning and night, in doses varying from one-sixth to one-third of a grain, according to the size of the dog.
This was the first time I ever saw preparations made to send down lower yards, and to house top-masts merchantmen not being strong-handed enough to cut such capers with their sticks. We had three anchors ahead, if not four, the ship labouring a good deal. We lost one man from the starboard forechains, by his getting caught in the buoy-rope, as we let go a sheet-anchor.
And at the first hint of departure grandmother and child both clung to her as if they felt her to be their sheet-anchor in storm. She was not allowed to go until she had inspected the nursery and pronounced it too damp for Julian's use, and seen a little bed made up for the child in Mrs. Brand's own room, where a fire was lighted, and everything looked cosey and bright.
Bounderby moved, moved with him, kept close to him, and went away with him. The only parting salutation of which he delivered himself was a sulky 'Good night, father! With a brief speech, and a scowl at his sister, he left the house. Since his sheet-anchor had come home, Mr. Gradgrind had been sparing of speech.
The young Dauphin Louis took the nominal lead of the national party, and ruled supreme in Paris in great ease and self-indulgence. The year before, Henry V. had succeeded to the throne of England, a bright and vigorous young man, eager to be stirring in the world, brave and fearless, with a stern grasp of things beneath all, a very sheet-anchor of firmness and determined character.
Moreover, these two had imbibed the spirit of rivalry, and each was stimulated by the suspicion that the other was secretly at work. Lucy's voluntary promise in the ballroom was a double sheet-anchor to Mr. Fountain. It secured him against the only rival he dreaded.
Come to me, by all means, if you like, and say, "I feel idle and good-for-nothing, and don't particularly want to see my Duty!" but do not moan about Life being all perplexity! It is always nobler to do your duty than to leave it undone: make this principle your sheet-anchor, and spiritual feelings and light will come some day, if God sees fit.
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.
Attach them to three works of art which you all have either seen or continually heard of. That represents the whole end and aim of the Athenian school the natural form of the human body. All their conventional architecture their graceful shaping and painting of pottery whatsoever other art they practised was dependent for its greatness on this sheet-anchor of central aim: true shape of living man.
I suppose it was because I had been thinking of the pistol before I went to sleep, and because when I came in here I was half dazed and only half awake which I hope you will in future, sir, always remember." He clung to that formula of excuse as though it were his sheet-anchor. I did not want to antagonise the man; on the contrary I wanted to have him with us.
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