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Significats de sheet anchor en anglès

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àncora de salvació

Spare anchor for use in emergency.

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Ús de sheet anchor en anglès
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Her love was a sheet anchor which held in the stormiest seas.
Authors and Friends
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One lives at the East-end, and is sheet anchor to Whittingtonia.
The Long Vacation
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For moral authority at that conjuncture was the sheet anchor of the principal delegates.
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
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His caprices remain the sheet anchor of the would-be virtuoso.
A Popular History of the Art of Music / From the Earliest Times ...
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The sheet anchor was let go, and alone now kept the brig from destruction.
The Three Midshipmen
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That it is her sheet anchor, sure and fast?
When Knighthood Was in Flower / or, the Love Story of Charles Br...
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Woman was the sheet anchor of the Church.
Equality
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They have no sheet anchor out to windward.
Craftsmanship in Teaching
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Indeed, he was reflecting as he walked in the dusk, Mrs. Spaniel was now his sheet anchor.
Where the Blue Begins
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Yet, contemporaneously, the welfare state was established and soon became the new sheet anchor of the Anglo-Scottish union.
The Guardian
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The genial, if somewhat abstracted, motherliness of her welcome had been, indeed, his sheet anchor throughout the evening.
The Market-Place
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This doctrine, consistently acted upon by Europe, has been the sheet anchor of the Ottoman empire for a century.
The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
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The sheet anchor (= shoot anchor).
Anson's Voyage Round the World / The Text Reduced
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The sheet anchor was then weighed, when, on its coming above water, it was found that both the flukes had gone.
The Three Admirals
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Our public schools therefore form one of the chief cornerstones of our American republic; they are the sheet anchor of our hopes.
"Thirty Years In Hell" Or, "From Darkness to Light"
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They instinctively rallied to uphold Law, the slow product of centuries of growth, the sheet anchor of Society in a time of change.
Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate Biography
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