studding-sails

Fortunately this state of things only lasted for two days, as the weather was very calm, and we ran with studding-sails set before a fair wind as far as the Nova

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Upon which, my uncle ordered the studding-sails to be hoisted and the ship to be cleared for engaging; but, finding that

The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

Carrying royals and studding-sails, the “Chancellor” during the last four-and-twenty hours has held a steady course.

The Survivors of the Chancellor 2003

The VICTORY had not yet returned a single gun: fifty of her men had been by this time killed or wounded, and her main-top-mast, with all her studding-sails and her booms, shot away.

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

She approached within five or six miles, when her studding-sails were suddenly hauled down, and she was brought close to the wind in an effort to escape from us.

The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner John Wilkinson

We took in all studding-sails and topgallantsails fore and aft, and lay by for her about an hour after we first had sighted her.

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

We were saved the trouble of taking in our studding-sails, as our opponents had the civility to effect it by shot before we got into their line.

A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

At seven o'clock we took in all studding-sails and staysails, and the fore and mizzen topgallant-sails.

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

The starboard studding-sails are on the fore-mast, and on both sides of the main-top-gallant and main-royal; but, in going nearly before a wind, there is no advantage derived from the stay-sails, which, accordingly, are not set.

The Illustrated London Reading Book Various

The stranger bore north by west when discovered, and was standing almost directly toward us, with studding-sails and royals set to the favorable breeze, a cloud of snowy canvas from her graceful hull to the trucks of her tapering royalmasts.

The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner John Wilkinson