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
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
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
