mizzen-mast

• “Then all the main deck between the poop and the mizzen-mast will be flooded with light, while we shall be in comparative darkness.”

  CHAPTER XLIV

• “In the next roll of the huge, glassy sea, the mizzen-mast fell overside.”

  CHAPTER XV

• “Above this flood, or knee-deep in it, Mr. Pike and half-a-dozen sailors were bunched on the fife-rail of the mizzen-mast.”

  CHAPTER XXX

• “That portion which spanned from the mizzen-mast to the 'midship-house was missing, while the starboard boat on the' midship-house was a splintered mess.”

  CHAPTER XXX

• “I had gone for'ard along the bridge to the mizzen-mast, in the shadow of which I was leaning.”

  CHAPTER XXII

• “He went over the bridge-rail side-wise, caught the running gear up-and-down the mizzen-mast, and landed lightly on his feet on top of Number Three hatch.”

  CHAPTER XLII

• “Abruptly, from the mizzen-mast, came a snap of breakage and crash of fabric.”

  CHAPTER XX

• “Placed at a gun on the upper deck, on the starboard side near the mizzen-mast, he fought like a Briton, though dazed at first by the roar, and the smoke, and the crash of timber.”

  Springhaven

• “The Union Jack was flying at the mizzen-mast, and a blue standard bearing the initials E. G., embroidered in gold, and surmounted by a ducal coronet, floated from the topgallant head of the main-mast.”

  In Search of the Castaways

• “A shot gouged a furrow through the Pucelle's forecastle deck, another struck the mizzen-mast, shaking it, a third hammered the length of the weather deck, piercing bows and stern and miraculously touching nothing in the flight between.”

  Sharpe's Trafalgar

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