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  • The gnome spotted two sailors tying themselves to the mainmast, and another holding onto the mast's rigging.

    Father Swarat Matt Dennison 2010

  • Free of the mast's dragging weight, the ship slowly righted itself.

    Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas Carlos G.Tonda 2010

  • Slingsby frowned, but said nothing as Sharpe climbed the ladder to the mast's platform that stood fifteen feet above the hilltop.

    Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

  • The gnome spotted two sailors tying themselves to the mainmast, and another holding onto the mast's rigging.

    The Dragons of Chaos Weis, Margaret 1997

  • Free of the mast's dragging weight, the ship slowly righted itself.

    Dragons of Spring Dawning Weis, Margaret 1985

  • The boy unlocked a trunk that was part of the mast's foundation and dragged out an iron tripod that carried a telescope twice the size of Sharpe's.

    Sharpe's Gold Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1981

  • And first the arrow of the son of Hyrtacus, flying through heaven from the sounding string, whistles through the fleet breezes, and reaches and sticks fast full in the mast's wood: the mast quivered, and the bird fluttered her feathers in affright, and the whole ground rang with loud clapping.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • The inconvenience, too, as well as the dangers, of this service, were in no slight degree augmented, by the mast's having been made much too long for the ship; a circumstance which had, at several times, nearly occasioned it to be overset.

    The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

  • Much difficulty was experienced with the mast's stays, which frequently required tightening on account of the "deadmen" working loose in the yielding peaty soil.

    The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

  • Yea, and there were roses at the mast's foot, and my fingers, as I stretched them, dabbled in mosses.

    The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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