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  • Now, right before us the anchorage was bounded by a plateau from two to three hundred feet high, adjoining on the north the sloping southern shoulder of the Spy-glass and rising again towards the south into the rough, cliffy eminence called the Mizzen-mast Hill.

    Treasure Island 1883

  • Now, right before us, the anchorage was bounded by a plateau from two to three hundred feet high, adjoining on the north the sloping southern shoulder of the Spy-glass, and rising again toward the south into the rough, cliffy eminence called the Mizzen-mast Hill.

    Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • The name was given by the developer, [Bertram] Chapman Mayo, in 1914 and the “beach” and “wood” theme was utilized in the naming of streets with nautical names including Capstan, Mizzen, Spray and Starboard, and the names of trees including Oak, Maple, Birch, Spruce, and Hickory.

    2009 March 05 « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

  • The name was given by the developer, Bertram Chapman Mayo, in 1914 and the “beach” and “wood” theme was utilized in the naming of streets with nautical names including Capstan, Mizzen, Spray and Starboard, and the names of trees including Oak, Maple, Birch, Spruce, and Hickory.

    2009 March 05 « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

  • The Gallies were grapled to the Centurion in this maner, two lay on one side and two on another, and the Admirall lay full in the stern, which galled and battered the Centurion so sore, that her maine Maste was greatly weakened, her sailes filled with many holes, and the Mizzen and sterne made almost vnseruiceable.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • She suddenly turned and fired a broadside into Us, but did Us no other damage, than by cutting some of our rigging, piercing some of our Sails, and sending one of her Shot through our Mizzen Yard.

    John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961

  • We lay some time under a Mizzen-balast, but were at last forc'd to put before the Wind, and, for Four Days, we scudded with the Goose-wings of our

    A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Captain Samuel Brunt

  • He noticed with amusement that one of the pursuing aeroplanes had come down on Mizzen Head; the other was still labouring after him.

    Round the World in Seven Days Herbert Strang

  • The witnesses were “The Mainmast,” “The Mizzen Mast,” and other inanimate ship's parts and objects ....

    Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922

  • Now I chanced to reach a certain eminent place whence I might behold the general trend of the island; and now I saw that this was the smallest of three islands and remembered how Resolution had named them to me as Fore, Main and Mizzen islands.

    Martin Conisby's Vengeance Jeffery Farnol 1915

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