We took in topsail and staysail, dropped the main-peak, and as we got abreast of the principal wharf jibed the mainsail. From Wordnik.com. [Charley's "Coup"] Reference
We took in topsail and staysail, dropped the main peak, and as we got abreast of the principal wharf jibed the mainsail. From Wordnik.com. [Charley's Coup] Reference
` See that you stow that main-topsail in a brace of shakes!. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
We were rapidly nearing the chase, when she backed her topsail. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
"Cast-off the topsail sheets and let everything go by the run!". From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
They loosed the fore-topsail and they set the foretopmast staysail. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
The main-topsail was taken in, and the ship left under the main topsail only. From Wordnik.com. [The Wreck on the Andamans] Reference
The captain set the topsail and main-foresail in hopes of keeping her off shore. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
The second shot let daylight through her fore topsail, but the third was wide again. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
At last her foreyard went in the slings, and her main-topsail in ribbons, and she righted. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Mr Gilham informed me that we had suffered no serious damage beyond the injury to the topsail yard. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
But on the evolution of the sky-topsail or fore-top-gallant-backstays his word carries much weight. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
At 6 the fore-topsail was taken in, and the ship hove-to under the main topsail and the main trysail. From Wordnik.com. [The Wreck on the Andamans] Reference
Then, by the rail in the coil of the main-gaff-topsail-halliards, he saw something glitter and picked it up. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
The topsail was stowed snugly enough, so, my friend the middy's missive was set-off to his chaff at my expense. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
Aloft with you, and make that fore topsail all snug, and set storm staysails, for we've got something rougher coming. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
Therefore, the main-topsail of the Duke William was taken in, and three pumps got out to be ready in case of necessity. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
We were now rapidly raising her, and I was sent aloft on the fore topsail yard, with a good glass to watch her movements. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
"She's further away now than I thought, sir!" shouted old Masters in reply to this, after having another squirm over the topsail yard. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference
But while we were looking, down came the gaff of her mainsail, and the gaff-topsail fell all adrift; a lucky shot had cut her peak halyards. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
At the same moment, too, with a loud double report, the foresail and main-topsail blew out of the bolt-ropes, floating away in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
"Man the topsail halliards!" then sang out the captain, and with a cheery cry the yards were run up with a will and the halliards then belayed. From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
The "Pegasus" now shoots ahead, bidding fair to overhaul the corvettes, but her ambition is speedily curbed by the springing of her main-topsail yard. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
I sailed out of Boston to South America, in a topsail-schooner, with an old fellow by the name of Eaton, -- just the strangest old scamp you ever dreamed of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
Also, how, caught off that same wild cape, they had to make sail in a reef-topsail-breeze to claw off its terrible rocks, seen but too plainly under their Ice. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
There are hoarse murmurs, and calls to "light up the sail to windward"; and presently from the fore-topsail-yard comes the cry, ringing and clear, -- "Haul away to leeward!". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
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