topgallant-sails

The wind, during the night, had so eased that by nine in the morning we had all our topgallant-sails set.

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Mr. Pike was so fooled that he actually had set the topgallant-sails, and the gaskets were being taken off the royals, when the Samurai came on deck, strolled back and forth a casual five minutes, then spoke in an undertone to Mr. Pike.

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Then it was clewlines and buntlines and lowering of yards as the topgallant-sails were stripped off.

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And the men jumped, though in their weakness the climb aloft was slow and toilsome; and when the gaskets were off the topgallant-sails and the men on deck were hoisting yards and sheeting home, those aloft were loosing the royals.

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In '51, on this same stretch, Miss West, the Flying Cloud, in twenty-four hours, logged three hundred and seventy-four miles under her topgallant-sails.

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Previously to this, the ship had been under all plain sail, so as to be ready for the wind when it chose to visit us again; but, in a very short time, under Jackson's supervision and sharp, rapid orders, the courses were clewed up, the flying-jib hauled down, the topgallant-sails furled, and the spanker brailed up.

The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg

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

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

Above the courses come the lower topsails, above them the upper topsails, above them the lower topgallant-sails, then the upper topgallant-sails, then the royals, and, on the mainmast, the skysail, though sometimes there are skysails to all masts, and over the main skysail comes a "scraper" or moon-raker.

Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various

Captain Miles, however, did not stop merely at taking in the studding - sails, for the royals were next furled as well as the topgallant-sails; and then, under reefed topsails and courses, in addition to her jib and spanker which were still set, he awaited what the weather might have in store for his vessel.

The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg

As the pirate ship beat out of the harbour, sheeting home her topgallant-sails, they "put out their bloody flags," which the pirates imitated, "to shew them that we were not as yet daunted."

On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922