Nobody sane or sober would venture out from a safe mooring.

There he would hail some steamboat or tug, and get it to tow his raft to a safe mooring-place.

Jumping out he dragged the boat to a safe mooring, from where the waves could not beat it back into the lake.

The anchorage was like a mill-pond, and seemed a safe mooring, but he knew two rivers converged here and emptied into the sea.

And now the full stream of life had swept them together from the safe moorings of childhood.

It seemed as though they had cast loose from their safe moorings, and were adrift upon an uncharted sea.

They cannot drift away from the safe moorings of evangelical truth, unless the churches to which they are tied up give way.