topmast

• “A second moment they devoted to the wreckage of the same on deck -- the mizzen-topmast, thrust through the spanker and supported vertically by the stout canvas, thrashing back and forth with each thrash of the sail, the main - topmast squarely across the ruined companionway to the steerage.”

  Chapter 15

• “There is no doubt that getting rid of the leverage of the bowsprit, right up in her eyes, eased her a good bit; and as the topmast was a pretty heavy spar, too, that also helped. ”

  Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)

• “The month in which my seventeenth birthday arrived I signed on before the mast on the Sophie Sutherland, a three-topmast schooner bound on a seven-months 'seal-hunting cruise to the coast of Japan.”

  That Dead Men Rise Up Never

• “Such information did he gather, over many bottles of beer, that the next afternoon, hiring a small launch at a cost of ten shillings, he journeyed up the harbour to Jackson Bay, where lay the lofty - poled, sweet-lined, three-topmast American schooner, the Mary”

  CHAPTER IX

• “I saw the mizzen topmast lurching across a faint radiance of cloud behind which was the moon.”

  That Dead Men Rise Up Never

• “The next time the clouds thinned I looked for'ard, and there was the shadow of the topmast, long and attenuated, wavering and lurching on the deck and against the rigging.”

  That Dead Men Rise Up Never

• “The fine, three-topmast schooner Ariel, on a cruise around the world, had already been out a year from San Francisco when Jerry boarded her.”

  CHAPTER XXI

• “I extended the line between the cloudy radiance and the mizzen-topmast and found that it must strike somewhere near the fore-rigging on the port side.”

  That Dead Men Rise Up Never

• “January I signed before the shipping commissioner the articles of the Sophie Sutherland, a three topmast sealing schooner bound on a voyage to the coast of Japan.”

  Chapter 15

• “But when the butt of the topmast was level with the rail, everything came to a standstill.”

  Chapter 35

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