top-sail

I was watching the behavior of their boat as the great fisherman's staysail, far, far larger than the top-sail and used only in light breezes, was broken out.

Charley's Coup 2010

But howsomever, we shall leave that reef in the fore top-sail. —

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

The wind is blowing hard from the north-east; and the “Chancellor” under low-reefed top-sail and fore-sail, and labouring against a heavy sea, has been obliged to be brought ahull.

The Survivors of the Chancellor 2003

As I have already said, the ship under her large low-reefed top-sail and fore stay-sail has been brought ahull, that is to say, she copes directly with the wind, by presenting her broad bows to the sea; and so we go on still drift, drift, continually to the south.

The Survivors of the Chancellor 2003

About 11 P.M. the sky began to darken in the south, and the crew were called up, and all the sails hauled in, except the foresail, brigantine, top-sail, and jib-boom.

In Search of the Castaways 2003

Suspended from his ears were two golden hoops, so large that the sailors called them ringbolts, and would talk of securing the top-sail halyards to them.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

There he stood, very quietly overlooking some sailmakers who were mending a top-sail in the waist.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

He saw she approached him very fast, and he lay to for some time, till he believed she was within two miles of the boat, but still to leeward; therefore he thought it best to steer larger, when he found she was a top-sail schooner, nearing him very fast.

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. Anonymous

At four P.M. took second reef in each top-sail, -- close reefed both, and sent down top-gallant-yard; the gale still increasing.

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. Anonymous

July 1, at four A.M. it began to blow in squalls very hard, took in one reef in each top-sail, and continued so until eight A.M. the weather being still thick and hazy.

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. Anonymous