Black ink anchor with a heart-shaped ring and the script words Hebrews 6:19 below it, tattooed on the side of the torso.

Anchor with heart and Hebrews 6:19 script

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A small black anchor with a heart-shaped ring at the top sits above a curved line of script reading Hebrews 6:19. The anchor has solid, bold linework and the script is smooth and cursive, both in a single dark ink tone. The tattoo is shown close up against warm, freckled skin with a soft focus and a dark strap at the left edge.

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The cage stopped forty fathoms short of the bottom and swung there, and the whole pithead went quiet except for the engine. Ada Pringle pressed her palm to the wet rail and counted the way her father had taught her, one breath for each turn of the drum, while the lamp men shouted down the shaft in voices that cracked on the words.

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Her brother Danny had gone down with a tin anchor on a bootlace round his neck. Mr Haig the smith had hammered them out of old boiler plate that winter, one for every man on the north face, the shank cut so a heart curled through the eye and showed when the lamp caught it. Mam had made them all wear one. "Something to hold on to," she said, and Ada thought it soft at the time.

The reader from the chapel had read the verse at Christmas, the bit about hope being an anchor of the soul, sure and stedfast. Ada had not really listened. She listened now, to the rope creaking, to the men at the windlass humming "Abide with Me" under their breath because it was the one hymn they all knew by heart.

The cage came up at ten past four with two men on it, one of them carried. Danny was black to the eyebrows and grinning, the bootlace still knotted at his neck, the tin anchor warm from his skin. He pressed it into her hand. "Held fast," he said, and she laughed until she was crying.

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