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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

Go for'ard when the sloop's nose was more often under than not, and take in sail like a man.

SIWASH 2010

When his men began wading through the surf, the enemy advanced in fury, even though the sloop's musketmen shot them down three or four at a time.

How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

The sloop's captain spoke up from his place at the stern.

Reiffeins Choice 2006

Connors, the Third Lieutenant who had the responsibility of looking after the ship's signals, ordered a man to haul a string of brightly coloured flags up into the rigging, then put a telescope to his eye and called out the sloop's answering message.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

A built-in, shoulder-high chest is on the right-hand side of the bunks, and a narrow wardrobe is crowded between the bunks and the sloop's hull.

The Towers of the Sunset Modesitt, L. E. 1992

Another fireball blazes through a corner of the sloop's sail.

The Towers of the Sunset Modesitt, L. E. 1992

The Eidolon, moored at pier number one, the one closest to the sea, carried one square-rigged mast and whatever they called a sloop's mast.

The Magic of Recluce Modesitt, L. E. 1991

Turian had allowed her to take a turn at the sloop's helm on the return voyage.

The Rowan McCaffrey, Anne 1990

The sloop's crude, hand-hewn timbers smoothed under his fists, trans-formed to the slim lines of Crow's pinnace.

Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989