loose for sea
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There were seventy-eight ships and transports casting loose for sea, and eleven or twelve thousand men, soldiers, sailors, and refugees, hurrying to embark; many, especially of the latter, with their families and personal effects.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington
More than three-score-and-ten boats were cast loose for sea, with at least 12,000 men on board of them.
From The Life of George Washington in Words of One Syllable by Pollard, Josephine
On the 17th there were in Boston Harbor seventy-eight ships and transports casting loose for sea, and twelve thousand soldiers, sailors and refugees, hurrying to embark.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters by Mee, Arthur
