mizen

• “The top of the mizen was the first to disappear, then followed the main-top; and soon, of what had been a noble vessel, not a vestige was to be seen.”

  The Survivors of the Chancellor

• “She was a deep-waisted vessel, with three masts, the foremast and mainmast square-rigged, while the aftermast carried a long lateen-shaped sail called the mizen, with a square topsail and topgallantsail.”

  The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley

• “The mizen wireless mast came down in a raging blizzard to – day.”

  South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917

• “The wires in the ice took the strain (lashings at mizen chains carried away) and carried away fair – lead bollard on port side of forecastle head.”

  South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917

• “So I lay, and wondered why light Came not, and watched the twilight And the glimmer of the skylight, That shot across the deck; And the binnacle pale and steady, And the dull glimpse of the dead-eye, And the sparks in fiery eddy, That whirled from the chimney neck: In our jovial floating prison There was sleep from fore to mizen, And never a star had risen The hazy sky to speck.”

  Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo

• “Oakum, without any farther hesitation, ordered the fellow to be unfettered; at the same time, threatening to make Morgan exchange situations with him for his spite; but the Briton no sooner heard the decision in favour of the madman, than he got up to the mizen-shrouds, crying to Thompson and me to get out of his reach, for we should see him play the devil with a vengeance.”

  The Adventures of Roderick Random

• “Oakum, who leaned against the mizen-mast, no sooner saw me approach in my shirt, with the sleeves tucked up to my armpits, and my hands dyed with blood, than he signified his displeasure by a frown, and asked why the doctor himself did not come?”

  The Adventures of Roderick Random

• “The mizen hid them from the man at the wheel, and the twilight of tropical stars held the main – deck.”

  For the term of his natural life

• “Fortunately, as I have said, the main-mast and the mizen are of iron; otherwise the heat at their base would long ago have brought them down and our chances of safety would have been much imperilled; but by crowding on sail the”

  The Survivors of the Chancellor

• “Clouds of smoke issue from the front, followed by a long tongue of lambent flame that seems to encircle the mizen-mast.”

  The Survivors of the Chancellor

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