furled sails bound securely to the spar.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

There are solar blankets kind of furled up in there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2007] Reference

Most wind machines have to be 'furled' (feathered) once the wind passes a rated wind speed and completely shutdown at a maximum wind speed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Engineer - News] Reference

The sound of wings hurled and furled and unfurled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lundy's Lane and Other Poems] Reference

The sailors, as they furled the sails, talked of home.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference

Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

When the thunders are still and the tempests are furled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914] Reference

The bright wings furled -- my heart stood still to hear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

And no potent drug will cure it until Liberty has furled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories in Verse] Reference

The sails were furled, and daybreak was anxiously awaited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference

I'm bringing it home, with sails furled so it won't get away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem] Reference

We had no sooner anchored, and the sails were not yet furled, when.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference

The crew had furled the sails and sat down to the oars, whilst old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Icelandic Short Stories] Reference

The sails had been furled, but the wind and the water needed no aid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886] Reference

I think we'd better have the courses furled and the topsails reefed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference

Britain's own historical stance on animals is not entirely furled in glory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Bale would have got away with it if she hadn't picked on a fluffy animal] Reference

All the ships had their sails furled and the long yards hauled fore and aft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

Sometimes their petals flared like wings; sometimes they were close - furled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nest Builder] Reference

If the time was short, like a furled sail, in Paul's day, how much shorter is it in our day!.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Infidelity and Back] Reference

The great sails were closely furled, and the ships moored in regular order towards the quays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

The captain ordered the sails to be furled, and gave permission for those who wished to go ashore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

The flags were furled, the cannon was rolled away, and Cayuga County went home with a clouded brow.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

Reefed the courses, and furled them; brought to under a foul mizen stay-sail, head to the northward.    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

Several rounds were fired at the supposed dervishes following it, and then it was discreetly furled for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference

They were certainly perfectly white long after we left Rio; they have not been either furled or unbent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

Loyalty furled her flags; the civic authorities were silent; the signal-telegraph was put upon short allowance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference

A square sail, furled at present, mounted on a single mast amidships would help the rowers when the wind was right.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference

The topsails were furled, but the people could not furl the courses, the snow falling thick and freezing as it fell.    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 king was delighted with his gifts; he furled and unfurled his umbrella to the great admiration of his attendants.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

The log shows that she usually furled her sails when steaming, though on a few occasions she used both steam and sail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80] Reference

The sails were furled and the anchors were dropped, and we may imagine that a salute was fired in honour of the King of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Madras] Reference

In the pool a dozen trawlers, green striped and numbered, with furled brown sails and slackened rigging rode sweetly at anchor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Affairs] Reference

As soon as the sails were furled, a large canoe came off from the Governor with an invitation for the captain to dine with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

The market-place had been dismantled of its stalls and umbrellas all but one, which was being furled as we arrived on the scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference

Every possible effort was attempted to get her off by the sails; but that failing, they were furled, and the boats hoisted out with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference