Almost everything smashed and parted except the anchor-hold. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Book, which is the Christian's anchor-hold of hope, dark and contradictory, then it is not to be rejected, but on a penalty that reduces to an atom, all the sufferings this earth can inflict. ❋ James Gillman (N/A)
Letter to M.B. *** However high be the capacity of the mind, it is humiliating to find what small things can distract it, if its anchor-hold be not truly what and where it ought to be; and who does not find the need of this being often renewed and made fast? ❋ Eliza Southall (N/A)
Grindal describes him as "sophistical, disdainful, and illuding arguments with irrision, when he was not able to solute the same by learning", and adds that "his great anchor-hold was in urging the literal sense of hoc est corpus meum, thereby to prove transubstantiation". ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
To the believer whose anchor-hold is settled for life and death at the foot of his Redeemer's Cross, it is cheering indeed to see in these beautiful English renderings, by a scholar whose sympathies are complete with the faith and hope of the Norse psalmists, how Icelandic hearts have in the past beat true to the Gospel of Calvary, and how they do so still in these days so often troubled by alien thinking. ❋ 1879-1961 (1913)
Then I remember clutching at the wolfskin like one clinching a death-grip of reality, praying God not to let go a soul's anchor-hold of reason. ❋ Unknown (1903)
Here was your anchor-hold, and your rendezvous: you trust to Cobham, either ❋ Harry Lushington Stephen (1902)
Generally the anchor-hold was a small room, built of wood, connected with the church. ❋ Unknown (1892)
At Rettenden, Essex, there is a room over the vestry which has evidently been an anchor-hold. ❋ Unknown (1892)
The church of St. Patricio, near Crickhowel, South Wales, has an anchor-hold; also Clifton Campville ❋ Unknown (1892)
Within the churchyard of many a town or village church, and usually attached to the church, stood a reclusorium, or anchor-hold, wherein a recluse, male or female, once resided. ❋ Unknown (1892)
Heton, who wearied of her lot, and left the anchor-hold, an example which was followed by several of her successors. ❋ Unknown (1892)
For if they may have anchor-hold and great spending, ❋ William Carew Hazlitt (1873)
If the New Testament declare it, not in an insulated passage, but through the whole breadth of its pages, rendering, with any other admission, the book which is the christian's anchor-hold of hope, dark and contradictory, then it is not to be rejected, but on a penalty that reduces to an atom, all the sufferings this earth can inflict. ❋ Cottle, Joseph (1847)
Testament declare it, not in an insulated passage, but through the whole breadth of its pages, rendering, with any other admission, the book which is the christian's anchor-hold of hope, dark and contradictory, then it is not to be rejected, but on a penalty that reduces to an atom, all the sufferings this earth can inflict. ❋ Joseph Cottle (1811)
