Come in mainsheet two blocks!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

Emien adjusted course, and the mainsheet slapped with a rattle of blocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stormwarden]

The mainsheet needed easing, and the headsail drove the bow down because the halyard was too slack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stormwarden]

When Jerome tied it down, Pepper pulled in the oars and took the tiller with the mainsheet in his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crystal Rain] Reference

Shamed and furious, Emien stead-ied the pinnace against the heave of the breakers and loosed the mainsheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stormwarden]

John let the sails out with his good hand controlling the mainsheet, his hook on the tiller, and Lucita slowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crystal Rain] Reference

Dalton, who learned to sail as a boy at the Jersey Shore, said that many of his hedge-fund clients were handy with a mainsheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [High-Water Marks | Disinformation] Reference

The girl tumbled over the topsides into the cockpit and fell in a heap as she cast off the mainsheet, and Dwight clambered in beside her.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Beach]

No, SIR, we'll have no more of you at the mainsheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ebb-Tide] Reference

"Now will one know what a grip on the mainsheet is like!".    From Wordnik.com.  [King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet] Reference

Come, Walter, haul in the mainsheet, and come up to the wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors] Reference

'Give me the wheel, White Man, and you stand by the mainsheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ebb-Tide] Reference

The 19 year old elder son of Peter Gilmour, David is on mainsheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sail-World.com USA Latest News] Reference

Bobtail eased off his mainsheet, and waited for the Eagle to come up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot.] Reference

Priscilla took the mainsheet in her hand and ordered Frank to luff a little.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

The boom was trailing in the water, topping lift and mainsheet carried away.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Happened to the Corbetts]

Tell him to slack off the mainsheet, and before you know it, he'd drop the peak.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Sea Tales] Reference

He trimmed mainsheet while I was legs-out calling tactics and strategy from the rail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sail-World.com USA Latest News] Reference

An hour later the mainsheet was hanging in the water and the boat drifted with the tide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918] Reference

Man the main-tack tricing-line and down with the throat of the sail; round-in upon the mainsheet!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War] Reference

My mainsheet has two triple blocks, the one on the boom has a becket and the lower one a cam cleat.    From Wordnik.com.  [YBW News] Reference

While the two men struggled with the mainsheet, the big boom and the sail above it lurched madly over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vane of the Timberlands] Reference

We will watch for a ` smooth, 'and directly it comes, you and Francois must round-in upon the mainsheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War] Reference

Round-in upon the starboard braces -- ease off your mainsheet, slack it away and let the boom go well out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War] Reference

"Put your helm hard down and bring her to the wind!" roared Job, at the same time jumping toward the mainsheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Buccaneer] Reference

But I had to stick to the mainsheet and the yoke-lines, and do as best I could without rest, for the time being.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn] Reference

The third was younger still, -- a short, sturdy fellow in flannels, tending the mainsheet with a frowning glance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor Man's Rock] Reference

He fancied he cried out in warning, but was never sure of it, though three men came running to seize the mainsheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawtrey's Deputy] Reference

Seaport towns are full of mainsheet-men; they hop upon one leg, my son, what's left of them, and the rest are dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ebb-Tide] Reference