mizzen

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• Puff follows puff, and I am glad the mizzen is furled. Chapter 9
• In the afternoon set the fore and main topgallant sails. 1pm set the mizzen topgallant sail and spanker.
• Poor Sundry Buyers continually pressed his abdomen as he toiled around the deck-capstans; and never was Nancy's face quite so forlorn as when he obeyed the Maltese Cockney's command and went up to loose the mizzen-skysail. CHAPTER L
• The mizzen-topsail, which was a comparatively new sail and close reefed, split from head to foot in the bunt; the foretopsail went in one rent from clew to caring, and was blowing to tatters; one of the chain bobstays parted; the spritsailyard sprung in the slings, the martingale had slued away off to leeward; and owing to the long dry weather the lee rigging hung in large bights at every lurch. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11
• I put up the main, mizzen, and gennaker, as much sail as we could carry, and we were making a course straight for Acapulco at over 5 knots. Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk
• The Macedonian's mizzenmast was gone, her main and foretopmasts carried away, her main yard cut in two, and her ensign had disappeared.
• We can carry the spinnaker in combination with the mizzen staysail or we can carry either alone.
• It was in spinnaker, up mizzen, all sheets by the wind, and we were moving slowly ahead, heaving the lead and straining our eyes for the fixed red light on the ruined fort that would give us our bearings to anchorage. Chapter 10
• I saw the mizzen topmast lurching across a faint radiance of cloud behind which was the moon. That Dead Men Rise Up Never
• Larkyns at the maintop was a good second, while Adams at the mizzen was the last; the officer of the watch, on hearing his hail, reporting "All ready! Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant