yardarm

• “They looked aloft; at the end of the yardarm was a mass of bluish light like a small globe.”

  The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews.

• “They rigged a double yardarm onto the masts to which they attached cauldrons full of flammable liquid.”

  Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great

• “Pazel made a show of checking the yardarm bolts, and the knots on the closest stays.”

  Excerpt: The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert Redick

• “Of course. .if he was a republican he would be swinging from the yardarm. .blago and burris both need to be in leavenworth making little rocks out of big ones”

  Burris will not face perjury charges for Blagojevich testimony

• “But not together before the sun goes over the yardarm.”

  General Lee Hamburgers and Tequila

• “Gerald, in one of his flourishes, had put up a yardarm extending out from under the eaves at the east end of the house—a sheltered vantage point for an owl.”

  Simon & Schuster: Bird Cloud

• “The owls liked the house but they spurned the yardarm in preference to the roof ridge above my bedroom.”

  Simon & Schuster: Bird Cloud

• “The Commonwealth Games, however, have driven me back to the TV before the sun is over the yardarm, and I note the Jeremy Kyle Show is still on.”

  The Guardian: Delhi delivers absolute delight to daytime-TV schedules

• “Two watches on a single yardarm and unable to put a reef in a handkerchief like that!" he snorted.”

  CHAPTER XXXIII

• “The other is that the survivors were swung at the yardarm.”

  THE PROUD GOAT OFALOYSIUS PANKBURN

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