mizzen-topgallant

"It would be good to set the mizzen-topgallant," I heard Captain West mutter in a weak, quavery voice.

CHAPTER XXXVIII 2010

"It would be good to set the mizzen-topgallant," I heard Captain West mutter in a weak, quavery voice.

Chapter 38 1914

All this I see in a glance -- ah! and something more -- for the mizzen-topgallant had been shot clean through at the cap, and hung dangling.

The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

"It would be good to set the mizzen-topgallant," I heard Captain West mutter in a weak, quavery voice.

The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896

"Mr. Pathurst, will you please tell Mr. Pike to set the mizzen-topgallant?"

The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896

I could relate a score or more of such experiences: of ugly collisions with the police in Calcutta, of a narrow escape of being thrown overboard by a dinghy-wallah of the river Hooghley, of a desperate fight in the slings of the mizzen-topgallant yard with an apprentice of my own age, and the like; but the space at my disposal obliges me to conclude.

The Honour of the Flag 1877

An hour later its force had fallen to that of a strong breeze, and the captain had the topsails and mizzen-topgallant set, carrying on still full pitch to the north-east, notwithstanding that just before dawn it became pitch dark again and we couldn't see a cable's length ahead.

Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874

I had therefore to wait and watch Tom Jerrold swinging away up there and bundling the sail together, the gaskets being presently passed round it and the mizzen-topgallant made snug.

Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874

The sight was an awful and magnificent one to me suspended there in mid - air, as it were; but I confess I was not sorry when, presently, the mizzen-topgallant was snugly stowed, with the gaskets put round it, and

Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874

I was too late to help hand the royal, my especial sail since I had got familiar with my footing aloft; but the mizzen-topgallant sheets, bowlines and halliards having been hardly a second let go, and the men on the poop having only just begun to haul on the clewlines and buntlines, I was quite in time to get out on this yard.

Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874