Tufnell had gone to the maintop with his own telescope. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Trafalgar]
The officer, maintop captain, and cook looked at one another. From Wordnik.com. [The Terror]
The pennant hung motionless from the maintop-gallant - mast truck. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Moon] Reference
"Thinks his place is on the maintop, this one," he said, grinning. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert Redick] Reference
Forty men in armour might stand in the maintop and fire down upon the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
Sharpe stayed in the maintop until a squall of rain blotted the far fleet from view. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Trafalgar]
And in between you, me and the maintop, ole shipmate, the port of Rye is welcome to them. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates of Noon]
Bob came down, wondering why he was not allowed to stay at the maintop for a while longer. From Wordnik.com. [Bob the Castaway] Reference
The stroke was probably directed by an iron spindle, which was at the maintop gallantmast head. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook] Reference
At daylight the gale abated, when, on examining the masts, the maintop-mast was found sprung in the cap. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Crozier had always, until this moment, thought Farr a reliable and sensible hand and a fine maintop captain. From Wordnik.com. [The Terror]
After a chase of five hours the nearest frigate fired her foremost guns at us, which cut away the maintop bowline. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Conan clambered the shrouds to the maintop and searched the horizon ahead of the Red Lion with a fierce hawk's gaze. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
Every morning I climb the maintop-gallant, plunge into the ocean, and out again in the blowing of a Bo'sen's whistle. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 4, 1891] Reference
“Aye, aye, Captain,” said the Satyr, sliding the mask up to reveal Thomas R. Farr, Terror's captain of the maintop. From Wordnik.com. [The Terror]
He reached the futtock shrouds and, without thinking, hurled himself upward and outward, the quickest way to the maintop. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Trafalgar]
Haul on the bowlin ', the fore and maintop bowlin'. From Wordnik.com. [All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways] Reference
The frigate, coming up with the wind, hove her maintop-sail aback. From Wordnik.com. [The Rival Crusoes] Reference
Farragut went up step by step until he was close under the maintop. From Wordnik.com. [Admiral Farragut] Reference
Down came the brig's maintop-gallant-mast, the spars hanging by the rigging. From Wordnik.com. [Old Jack] Reference
"Frenchy has his fore and maintop-gallant masts about equal," said my father. From Wordnik.com. [Rodney Stone] Reference
"Gunner, send one of your mates into the maintop, and let him bum a blue light.". From Wordnik.com. [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference
I did as directed, the hands who had been aloft meeting me in the maintop on their way down. From Wordnik.com. [A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy] Reference
But her maintop-gallant masts were at present below, for the ship was not quite ready for sea. From Wordnik.com. [As We Sweep Through The Deep] Reference
We next saw several hands going aloft to clear it away, when another shot struck the maintop-mast. From Wordnik.com. [Old Jack] Reference
Perhaps a lookout in the maintop of a cruiser, steaming idly about the Atlantic, between Nassau and. From Wordnik.com. [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference
And none too soon; for at that moment a cry of sail in sight was heard from the maintop-mast cross-trees. From Wordnik.com. [As We Sweep Through The Deep] Reference
There was a heavy sea on, but the captain, instantly setting his maintop-gallant-sail, ran down towards the spot. From Wordnik.com. [The Loss of the Kent, East Indiaman, in the Bay of Biscay Narrated in a Letter to a Friend] Reference
Seated on the crumbling maintop of the ship was a huge, evil-looking bird of the kind called "Gallinazos" in South. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest] Reference
When on fire, it blazed as high as our maintop, throwing out flames, heat, and stink quite enough to drive any one away. From Wordnik.com. [Olla Podrida] Reference
So cleverly had Blackbeard calculated the drift of the boys 'raft that a little later in the morning a lookout in the maintop called down. From Wordnik.com. [Blackbeard: Buccaneer] Reference
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