A glance up the hatchway showed the giant that the arms he had planned to seize were defended by ten firelocks, and that, behind the open doors of the partition which ran abaft the mizenmast, the remainder of the detachment stood to their arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [For the term of his natural life] Reference

This was immediately replaced by another at the mizenmast-head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fight Between the Alabama and the Kearsarge off Cherbourg] Reference

The Florida is shown as she appeared, having lost her mizenmast in the conflict with the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sinking of the Confederate Steamer Florida, in the James River] Reference

He then sent Ronald aft to ascertain the condition of the main and mizenmast, which he believed had been struck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War] Reference

One of them had the initial P shining between the foremast and mainmast, and G between the main mast and mizenmast.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Lower Deck to Pulpit] Reference

The foretopmast of the leading frigate was shot away, and the mizenmast of the one following was seen to go by the board.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure] Reference

At half-past ten, her mizenmast was shot away, when the frigates changed their position, and attacked her on either quarter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth]

The mizenmast had gone by the board, and falling over the starboard side had carried all those upon it into the boiling ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War] Reference

The stranger, coming about, returned the fire; but as the shot flew from her guns down came her mizenmast, and she fell off before the wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure] Reference

All the crew suffered the tortures of anxiety for half the day, but towards two o'clock these words were shouted from the top of the mizenmast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras] Reference

The mainmast stood, but the mizenmast in an instant afterwards followed the foremast, preventing the crew from working the greater number of the guns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War] Reference

An alarm was given that the mizenmast was on fire in the captain's cabin, and as Rayner looked over the side, he could see the flames burst out of the lee ports.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure] Reference

As the boatswain had said, she was about half a mile distant from us, and her mizenmast was over the side, still fast to the hull by the rigging, which had not been cut away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship] Reference

In vain the latter tried to escape from her critical position; before she could do so she was a second time raked, the gaff being shot away, the mizenmast injured, and the remaining rigging cut through and through.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure] Reference

This was a fairly roomy and comfortable apartment, plainly but tastefully fitted up, with a mahogany table running lengthwise down the middle, through the centre of which the mizenmast passed down to the depths below.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story] Reference

Notwithstanding the loss of their mizenmast, the Frenchmen fought with spirit for some time, but their fire at length began to slacken, while the British seamen continued to work their guns with the same energy as at first.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure] Reference

Had our mizenmast been caught in any of the rigging, our destruction would have been certain; but ere the boat actually struck the wreck she was hauled off; and now the crew, labouring with all their strength, drew her up to her anchor.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage Round England] Reference

Before the Frenchmen had time to descend, the mizenmast of their ship fell over the side, and several must have been plunged into the water; not a minute afterwards the main-mast, fore-mast, and bowsprit followed, and she lay a helpless wreck on the ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Shipmates] Reference

Then we quickly surveyed her stock of spare spars, and came to the conclusion that all her damages in that direction might be made good, except so far as her mizenmast was concerned; she would consequently have to go home brig-rigged, or at best as a barque.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy] Reference

The miscreants who had boarded the vessel had apparently been all over her in search of anything that might be worth carrying away, and, among other places, they had explored the lazarette, which lay beneath the cabin, a small hatchway just abaft the mizenmast giving access to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship] Reference

The ship breached-to, and our mainmast and mizenmast went over the side. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor Jack] Reference

Pages 2 and 48: mizenmast changed to mizen-mast.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Boy's Voyage Round the World] Reference