Else scrounged up an anchor stone, twenty pounds of rock with a hole through where a line could be bent, and was.

I'm ready to believe you dropped your courage over the side of Rhun's ship along with the anchor stone!"

This small boulder is said to be the anchor stone of the last surviving grazing allotment in the Quarry.

He was bent motionless above the gray wood of the gunwhale, the dripping, mossy line to the anchor stone in his hand.

Anchor stones have been displayed in the Louvre and Deutsches Museum.

Hoist the anchor stone!"

Anchor stones originated with the wooden building blocks were designed by Friedrich Fröbel, the creator of the kindergarten system.

He took off the stained coat, wrapped it with the lining round the anchor stone in the skiff and sunk it in the lake.

Marius tried reconnecting the tertiary layer here and here-" she pointed, rattling on, "and now the anchor stone's gone flat.

Famous People like Albert Einstein or Walter Gropius developed their creativity by playing with Anchor stones.

Swebon threw the anchor stone overboard, and they sat while the sun rose and Blade explained his plans for helping the Forest People defeat their enemies.

But after Zanthia retrieves an anchor stone, Marko opens a portal and tells her to meet with him at the "Wheels of Fate."

The Mystics hold a meeting, and The Hand (a giant glove serving as Marko's assistant) formulates a plan, which requires a magic anchor stone from the center of the world.

As it turns out, however, the quest for the anchor stone is a wild goose chase, used by The Hand to distract Zanthia and the other Mystics while it enacts its evil deeds.

It is not known if this hole is goes all the way through the stone but if it does this could point to the stone having been moved at some point or used as perhaps an anchor stone or counterweight.

The legendary Polynesian navigator Kupe landed at Komanga Point, 3 kilometres west of Titahi Bay, leaving an anchor stone which today can be seen at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.