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By the time the sloop's deck was perpendicular, we had unbent the boom-lift from below, made it fast to the wharf, and, with the other end fast nearly to the mast-head, heaved it taut with block and tackle.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010
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We went to work immediately, and put all the canvas upon the brig which we could get upon her, rigging out oars for studding-sail yards; and contined wetting down the sails by buckets of water whipped up to the mast-head ...
A CLASSIC OF THE SEA 2010
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"I'll show I ain't a pincher," Nishikanta announced one day, after having broiled at the mast-head for five hours of sea-searching.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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Ah, I thought so -- as the Stars and Stripes fluttered to the mast-head.
Chapter 14 2010
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He wanted to know if I would dare the leap from the mast-head into the cleft.
Chapter 15 2010
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The machine roared down upon the trawler in a power dive, pulled out twenty feet above her mast-head and went rocketing up from her in exultation.
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K2, the only weekly published in the Northern Areas, carries a message on its mast-head which succinctly summarizes the emotional state of the people in the Northern Areas; it reads 'Sarzamin - Be - Ain Ki Awaz' meaning "the voice of the constitution-less."
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He is not, like Mr. Hardy, content to let the flag droop half-mast high; his protagonist still runs it up to the mast-head, and looks forward steadily to the “heavy day of work” before him.
Little Eyolf 2008
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He is not, like Mr. Hardy, content to let the flag droop half-mast high; his protagonist still runs it up to the mast-head, and looks forward steadily to the “heavy day of work” before him.
Little Eyolf 2008
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But I, and quite a few others probably won't take the "change of heart" at the Western Standard seriously until people like Yoshida are no longer part of the mast-head.
Yo, P.M.! CC 2008
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