The vessel swings by her moorings.
The boat slipped its moorings and drifted out to sea.
Slowly, each of their minds unhitched from its moorings in the body and spun.
A trim little sailboat was dancing out at her moorings Herman Melville.
Whereas Gaza was once plugged into Western economies, the siege has forced it to find other financial moorings.
It will recede from moorings, stranding boats in the mud, or reveal sandbars where none are on the maps.
So saying he made a signal to the seamen, and straightaway they weighed anchor and cast the ship loose from its moorings, and they moved eastward.
There are few big coastal resorts except in the north-west, only a handful of marinas and scarcely any “mega-homes” with moorings.
The waters swamped low-lying suburbs, tore ferries from their moorings and cars from their parking bays, and turned Brisbane’s business district into a ghost town.
For cases like this the system will have a watertight structures called caissons, which are based on the suction-pile technology used to emplace deep-sea moorings and foundations.
The reclamation area of the Project is 2,550 m2. Together with pontoon moorings, it provides a total area 3,500 m2 of foreshore beyond the existing eastern limit of the Hebe Haven Yacht Club.
It seemed to him that the island trembled to its base, and that it would, like a vessel at anchor, break moorings, and bear him off into the centre of the storm.
漂亮的摩根小姐在英国外交部做事，柏林跟她很有往来，相簿里有一张两个人在牛津河上划船的照片。柏林译笔字斟句酌，常常拿一些难译的言情句子跟她商量。有一次，柏林问她：深情的一眼引来对方第一次的回眸，应该说你的心turned over（神魂颠倒）还是说你的心slipped its moorings（心里没主）？疑问最后用的是my heart leaped within me（我怦然心动）。
