skysail-yard

Mr. Pike sent look-outs aloft to every skysail-yard, and the Elsinore slipped along through the smooth sea.

CHAPTER XVIII 2010

A dash of the same brine will help keep the ballast right, then a skysail-yard breakfast must be carefully stowed away, in order to give a firmness to the timbers, and on the strength of these two blocks for shoring up the hull, you must begin little by little, and keep on brightening up until you have got the craft all right again.

An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

Mr. Pike sent look-outs aloft to every skysail-yard, and the Elsinore slipped along through the smooth sea.

Chapter 18 1914

Carved with a jack-knife was the skysail-yard of a ship.

Hoboes That Pass in the Night 1907

Carved with a jack-knife was the skysail-yard of a ship.

Hoboes That Pass in the Night 1907

Carved with a jack-knife was the skysail-yard of a ship.

Hoboes That Pass in the Night 1907

Mr. Pike sent look-outs aloft to every skysail-yard, and the _Elsinore_ slipped along through the smooth sea.

The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896

His ship, the _Wilmington_, a skysail-yard clipper, was rated by sailormen as the "hottest" craft under the American flag, and

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888

Ladder; and they may well call it so, for it took me almost into the clouds; and at last, to my own amazement, I found myself hanging on the skysail-yard, holding on might and main to the mast; and curling my feet round the rigging, as if they were another pair of hands.

Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville 1855