The mother provides emotional anchorage for the entire family.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The plant needs a firm anchorage.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

anchorage is the largest city in Alaska.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Here, in your secure little anchorage, is a compound of life's social pleasures in the womb of nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aweigh] Reference

Thus at Amsterdam he called the anchorage Van Diemen's Road, and where the boats went for water Maria's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Tasmania, Volume I] Reference

The bow ranks were flooded; the whole front of the anchorage was a wreck of sunken boats.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

Near the anchorage was a small mangrove opening, the entrance of which was blocked up by a dry mud bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference

(Acts 20: 15) A little to the east of the extreme point there is an anchorage, which is still called St. Paul's port.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference

Immediately ahead of the anchorage is the small island of Desima, the most interesting portion of the city to Europeans.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

About four miles from the anchorage was a small opening in the mangroves, but of too little importance to take any notice of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference

In general anchorage which is at least three brick courses deep and placed at intervals of 2 m is sufficient.    From Wordnik.com.  [4. Roof structure] Reference

The anchorage is good.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Sea Tales: The Heathen(DL SunSITE)] Reference

He closed it, keeping a finger among the leaves; a kind of anchorage in case of indiscretion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference

For one day one of the natives from the cove told them that some way down the coast at the anchorage was a British whaling-ship. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands] Reference

The anchorage is a good clay bottom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference

The water-front has an anchorage for thousands of vessels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

"Perhaps we can find anchorage further down," he explained.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference

It was a sad sight, but it showed us that the anchorage was calm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference

But I could not afford to change my anchorage just for a bad smell!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference

Furcaria, I perceived that my game had taken wing from her anchorage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

It was so short a run to the anchorage behind the Point that nobody expressed fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference

"We will go across easy enough; but do you know the 'Nancy' is at her old anchorage?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference

He dropped his craft at the anchorage he had selected in the gray dawn of the morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam] Reference

James Calhoun's selection of it as an anchorage that his father was the more offended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

The bay of Tajoura affords good anchorage; but the best point to start for the interior is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference

Nevertheless, I kept at sea till evening, and then sneaked back to my protecting anchorage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

It was some minutes after eight when they left their anchorage, and began to drift once more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost in the Fog] Reference

In a few moments we passed the light at the entrance to the harbor, and tacked for our anchorage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference

The woman's heart remained true to its anchorage amid the storm and fire of approaching ship-fever.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

Mr. Bobbsey did not find a good anchorage for the boat for some time, as he wanted to get in a safe place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat] Reference

Benedict served as the main anchorage for British naval ships from Aug. 19 to 30, 1814, the report states.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles County gets grant for War of 1812 celebration] Reference

The man-of-war anchorage is about five miles inside the heads, directly in front of the city of Rio Janeiro.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

So the cruiser could fire no more shells, and the admiral ordered her about and back to the anchorage onshore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of a Boy Reporter] Reference

The bay is a favourite place of anchorage of the French squadron, as well as of other ships of war and yachts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

It was fortunate that in a week after this happy relief the British cruisers left our anchorage for a few days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

The salt water drop seemed reluctant to release its anchorage in the bay of his eyelid and his vision was blurred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knell Quarternion] Reference

Between them and Deal lies thus a stretch of four miles of deep water, in which there is a great anchorage for shipping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference

He and his men had had days of weary sailing and had sought in vain for shallow water in which they might come to an anchorage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold] Reference

The "Merry Maid" had found a quiet anchorage in one of the smaller inlets of the Delaware Bay, not far from the town of Cape May.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference

From the harbor, as we approached our anchorage, we had heard it at the same time from both shores, from both walls of green mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

I trimmed the unwanted anchorage roots — they were thick and fleshy, it was really a job for two people — then I kissed it goodbye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunk] Reference