The brig was thrown upon her beam-ends, and began to fill rapidly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference

The old tub creaked and groaned and lurched, and every now and then bid fair to stand on beam-ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference

Eighteen years ago the Plate gave it to me -- lost half our sticks, twenty hours on our beam-ends, cargo shifted, and foundered.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER XXVIII] Reference

Mulrady and Wilson more than once brought round the helm when some careless steering threatened to throw the ship on her beam-ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Castaways] Reference

We passed a vessel on her beam-ends on a rock just outside the islands, and some of us thought that she was the "rapt ship" which ran.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference

Delicate furrows for a moment cut their way here and there over the glassy surface, and then with a roar the black squall was upon us, keeling our craft almost upon her beam-ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885] Reference

Still the ship did not rise -- she was on her beam-ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews.] Reference

The English vessel was thrown violently on her beam-ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

She turned on her beam-ends at 4.17 and sank with every man an board.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Sea Power] Reference

But there were no masts now to hold the wind, so she stood up on her beam-ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers] Reference

"Why, sir, just to report one flag struck, and a commander-in-chief on his beam-ends.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Admirals] Reference

"Ay, but what matters it whether we strike the rocks on our beam-ends or an even keel?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle and the Breeze] Reference

Their boat, lying on its beam-ends, was drifting slowly in the direction of Black Bull Head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War] Reference

"But on our beam-ends we are; we would do a good deal for a thousand pounds apiece, eh, Bunny?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amateur Cracksman] Reference

Sometimes she was almost straight on end, at other times she heaved over almost on her beam-ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore] Reference

Beauchamp, with a furious tug of Radicalism, spoken or performed, pulled Cougham on his beam-ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference

She lies nearly on her beam-ends, with very little motion, thirteen feet water under her bowsprit end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II.] Reference

Undoubtedly, as a sailor, the first thought of each was that the schooner was going on to her beam-ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference

Almost as he stopped speaking, the rising swell caught the craft, and threw her once more on her beam-ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers] Reference

As the tide continued to drop, the ropes were hauled upon, and soon the vessels were down on their beam-ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess] Reference

The ship is lying over half upon her beam-ends; lee scuppers under water, and forecastle all in a smother of foam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

It began to be chill, the tide was rapidly fleeting seaward, the schooner settling more and more on her beam-ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Treasure Island] Reference

Lucky, too, the Frenchman's cargo had been snugly stowed, or we should have been on our beam-ends before midnight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess] Reference

And it did come, with a swift, fierce rush, and so strong that it nearly threw the old whaler over on her beam-ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896] Reference

For already the men had planned, if the slightest chance offered, to try and get the masts out while she lay on her beam-ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers] Reference

"I was on my beam-ends in the hospital when she went to sea -- bowled over in the scrimmage wi 'that brigantine, same as you was.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy] Reference

As it was, she came close to beam-ends more than once, and on one occasion righted only by letting-fly her sheets cut with hatchets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure] Reference

The ship lay nearly over on her beam-ends; the spars and rigging snapped and cracked; and her top-gallant masts bent like whip-sticks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

The ship lay nearly over upon her beam-ends; the spars and rigging snapped and cracked; and her top-gallant-masts bent like whip-sticks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

The bow of the sloop struck the pinnace fairly amidships, forcing her over on her beam-ends, until the water poured into the open hatchway.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference