The anchor bites.

There was nothing of disorganization, nothing of procrastination, nothing evincive of a temper to embarrass or obstruct the public business.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt…, [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], OCLC 762018299:

The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?