cast anchor

Rounding this point, we see before us in the distance a forest of shipping, and soon cast anchor in the harbor of Yokohama.

Start out for God and immortality; and some day you may cast anchor in the shining waters that lap the shores of a divine continent.

At length land appeared, and they cast anchor.

A penal settlement was formed the following year, and four days after the arrival of the little fleet, a French expedition, under the ill-fated M. de la P�rouse, cast anchor in the bay.

They had reached the gateway of Southern China and cast anchor in the harbor of Hong-Kong.