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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?
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Following the direction of the cries we saw that the broken mizen-mast was being washed against the vessel, and in the dusky morning twilight we could make out the figure of a man clinging to the rigging.
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Clouds of smoke issue from the front, followed by a long tongue of lambent flame that seems to encircle the mizen-mast.
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There is a sudden shock; the ship is caught up by an enormous wave; she rises upon her beam ends; several times she strikes the ground; the mizen-mast snaps short off level with the deck, falls into the sea, and the “Chancellor” is motionless.
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Curtis employed the interval in having the broken mizen-mast repaired.
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_ -- The Runnymede got a spar over her quarter, lashed to the mizen-mast, to shore her up, the heavy surf causing her to bump more than was agreeable.
The Wreck on the Andamans Joseph Darvall
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We lost our mizen-mast, in a storm, in the Bay of Biscay, and a dreadful blow on the head, from the spanker-boom, felled me to the deck, with a fracture of the skull.
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The enemy's mizen-mast was gone; which enabled him to wear, and draw ahead of us.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison
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There are three principal masts in a complete ship: the first is the main-mast, which stands in the centre of the ship; at a considerable distance forward is the fore-mast; and at a less distance behind, the mizen-mast.
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The mizen-mast, instead of a lower square-sail like the two others, has
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