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  • Arthur Deacon, from the mizzen-top, leaned out and hurled a steel marlin-spike at the fleeing mate.

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  • Olansen was just swinging into the mizzen-top as he went up with several turns of rope over one shoulder.

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  • It was Mr. Mellaire's watch, and he was standing on the bridge, directly under the mizzen-top, giving orders to Sundry Buyers, who, with Arthur Deacon and the Maltese

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  • The mizzen-top of the Redoutable, whence the fatal shot had come, was scarcely so much as fifty feet from the starboard rail of the

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Allan descended from his place in the mizzen-top, and joined his friend again on deck.

    Armadale 2003

  • Allan, as he now stood looking out from the elevation of the mizzen-top, spread the broad and lonely sea.

    Armadale 2003

  • When they took possession of the prize, they went into the mizzen-top, and found him dead, with one ball through his head, and another through his breast.

    The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

  • A ball fired from her mizzen-top, which, in the then situation of the two vessels, was not more than fifteen yards from that part of the deck where he was standing, struck the epaulette on his left shoulder, about a quarter after one, just in the heat of action.

    The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

  • They, however, on their part, were not idle; and it was not long before there were only two Frenchmen left alive in the mizzen-top of the REDOUTABLE.

    The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

  • When they took possession of the prize, they went into the mizzen-top, and found him dead; with one ball through his head, and another through his breast.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

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