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The captain began issuing orders, relayed through a bullhorn by the officer of the deck positioned atop the sail's bridge to the crew on the pier.

Ice Hunt Rollins, James, 1961- 2003

Overhead the sail's boom sprang around, whipping at a speed that would crack a skull.

Ice Hunt Rollins, James, 1961- 2003

The flames spread with extraordinary swiftness, engulfing the great spread of shot-punctured canvas, but Montmorin's men were just as swift, cutting the halliards that held the sail's spar and so dropping it to the deck where they risked the fire to hurl the burning sail over the side.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

"No," said Nonnus as he tied off the sail's lift to a bitt at the base of the mast.

Lord of the Isles 1997

The mast and the sail's center of force were forward of where the reef gripped the hull.

Lord of the Isles 1997

Kira flexed her feet, breaking contact with the station and letting the momentum of that slight movement swing her around to the front of the sail's arc, out of Quark's line of sight./really am out here to do work, she told herself as she passed a diagnostic scanner slowly down the length of one seam.

Time's Enemy Graf, L. A. 1996

Kira played clumsy gloves across the sail's exterior door controls.

Time's Enemy Graf, L. A. 1996

On the sail's aft end, another seaman ran up the Soviet naval ensign, its bright red star emblazoned with the shield of the Red Banner Northern Fleet.

The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1988

His knee had swollen up and be could not stand so he lay in the sail's shadow.

Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984

Directly ahead of us, half hidden by the sail's spread, was a planecar.

Restoree McCaffrey, Anne 1967