How To Use Mizzen In A Sentence
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Puff follows puff, and I am glad the mizzen is furled.
Chapter 9
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In the afternoon set the fore and main topgallant sails. 1pm set the mizzen topgallant sail and spanker.
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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
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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
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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.
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The Macedonian's mizzenmast was gone, her main and foretopmasts carried away, her main yard cut in two, and her ensign had disappeared.
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We can carry the spinnaker in combination with the mizzen staysail or we can carry either alone.
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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
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I saw the mizzen topmast lurching across a faint radiance of cloud behind which was the moon.
That Dead Men Rise Up Never
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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
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These braces come down to the ship's sides, or to the heads of the masts fore and aft of those on which the yard is swung; all the mizzen-braces working on the mainmast; the maintopgallant, mainroyal and skysail braces working on the mizzenmast; and the foretopgallant and foreroyal braces working on the mainmast, as is clearly shown in our illustration.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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Around the mizzenmast is the after-saloon, with eight cabins leading out of it.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912
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The top of the mizzen was the first to disappear, then followed the main-top; and soon, of what had been a noble vessel, not a vestige was to be seen.
The Survivors of the Chancellor
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Now the yards of the mizzen mast are braced around and the sheets of the staysails are eased.
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As it was, they cut away the remnants of the mizzen-lower-topsail with their sheath-knives, and they loosed the main-skysail out of its bolt-ropes.
CHAPTER XLVI
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The tall mast is the mainmast, the short mast is the mizzen; some ketches carry square sails on the main, some carry a topsail on the mizzen -- the distinctive mark of the ketch being that the mizzen is a pole-mast and stepped in front of the stern-post.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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The "trysails" are gaff or jib-headed sails sometimes carried on the fore and main, as the spanker is carried on the mizzen.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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For a few minutes, he hung on to the mizzen rigging, face to the wind, revelling in the glory of it.
CORMORANT
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A nao was a Portuguese term nef or nau in French for a full-rigged round ship, with large square-rigged sails on two or three masts, sometimes with a lateen-rigged mizzen and a smaller mast called a bonaventure abaft the mizzen.
Champlain's Dream
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At sunset, we had 5 sails up in a vain attempt to catch what little wind there was - jib, stay, main, mizzen staysail and the mizzen.
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Having all but the mizzen sail reefed, he bade Lasky a goodnight.
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A second moment they devoted to the wreckage of the same on deck -- the mizzen-topmast, thrust through the spanker and supported vertically by the stout canvas, thrashing back and forth with each thrash of the sail, the main - topmast squarely across the ruined companionway to the steerage.
CHAPTER XV
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Julie took a turn at the helm for two hours, then I came back on, and after an hour or so the wind died to nothing, so I took down the gennaker and mizzen, leaving the main, and put the engine back in gear, making 1 knot again.
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The carrying away of the crojack and the blowing away of the mizzen-lower-topsail gave me freedom to see and aim, and when the tiny messengers from my rifle began to spat through the canvas and to spat against the steel of the yard, the men strung along it desisted from passing the gaskets.
CHAPTER XLVI
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She was already well down by the stern, and with her stern under, the seas was breaking against her mizzen and washing up the decks.
THE MAIN CAGES
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I extended the line between the cloudy radiance and the mizzen-topmast and found that it must strike somewhere near the fore-rigging on the port side.
That Dead Men Rise Up Never
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Also, the fore-and-aft sail on the mizzenmast, originally a triangular lateen sail, was changed to accommodate the more modern rig.
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Her foremast carried square sails; her main and mizzen masts were schooner-rigged.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
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Day dawned on the savage ocean, and in the cold gray light all that could be seen of The Francis Spaight emerging from the sea were the poop, the shattered mizzenmast, and a ragged line of bulwarks.
THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT"
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The Ocean Gypsy didn't have a mizzen - she was one-masted!
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Heading aft towards the stern, we found the mizzenmast collapsed, which was why it had not shown up on the sonar.
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This enabled the commander to press on with the work of rigging the ship, the crossjack, or "crochet" yard being sent up by the aid of the mizzen burton hooked on in front of the top; after which the jack was slung and the trusses fixed on, the spar brought home to the mast, the lifts and braces having been fitted before swaying, as is the case with all the lower yards in men-of-war.
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
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Except for one wild southwester that broke the pin in the mizzen topsail yard and sent it into the rigging, all signs seemed in their favor.
A Furnace Afloat
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The sailors at the fore and mizzen had come down; the line tubs were fixed in their places; the cranes were thrust out; the mainyard was backed, and the three boats swung over the sea like three samphire baskets over high cliffs.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Bellerophon's main topmast had been shot away and her mizzen topmast was in a precarious state.
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The sails on the lower yards are the foresail, mainsail and crossjack, or, as they are often called, fore-course, main-course and mizzen-course -- the course being the sail, just as a sheet is a rope and not a piece of canvas.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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In the next roll of the huge, glassy sea, the mizzen-mast fell overside.
CHAPTER XV
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The term ship, as usually applied, has reference to a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts -- a mainmast, a foremast and a mizzenmast; and these three masts are each composed of three parts, namely, a lowermast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast.
The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island
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We had hauled the trysails and other fore and aft canvas, which was comparatively useless to a steamer when running before the wind at the time we had altered course towards the south, in quest of the ship in distress, the _Star of the North_ speeding along with only her fore - topsail and fore-topgallantsail set in addition to her fore-topmast staysail and mizzen staysail and jib.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
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It would be good to set the mizzen-topgallant," I heard Captain West mutter in a weak, quavery voice.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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Some of the larger craft built in the Civil War era were fitted out as barkentines, with square sails forward and schooner-rigged main and mizzen masts. ...
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Raft coming!" called the mizzen lookout, stimulat-ing a rush toward the stern.
Mission to Moulokin
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His square-rigged ship with the cross and bones flying from the mizzenmast was a feared sight in the eyes of captains of merchant barques.
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A gust of wind hit them as the mizzensail was unfurled, followed by the mainsail and the foresail.
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Tom Jerrold, who now appeared on the poop, and whom I had fought shy of before, thinking he had behaved very unkindly to me in the morning, was one of the first to spring into the mizzen-shrouds and climb up the ratlines on the order being given to furl the sail, getting out on the manrope and to the weather earing at the end of the yard before either of the three hands who also went up.
Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea
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Then they are taken to the admiral's ship, hung from the mizzen shrouds, and disemboweled.
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The students sat in the open cockpit to learn terms such as mizzen mast, jib and stanchion.
The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE
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That portion which spanned from the mizzen-mast to the 'midship-house was missing, while the starboard boat on the' midship-house was a splintered mess.
CHAPTER XXX
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Forward of and round the mizzenmast is the bridge, which is partly formed by the roofs of the large chart-house and laboratory amidships and the two houses on each side.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912
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Then they are taken to the admiral's ship, hung from the mizzen shrouds, and disemboweled.
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The crew had formed a circle on the deck around the mizzenmast and the captain, whose back was turned to her.
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A mizzen mast, near the stern carried a fore and aft sail; another sail was spread below the bowsprit, and smaller topsails were set above the mainsail and foresail.
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Our mizzenmast soon went, and soon afterwards the maintopmast.
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His square-rigged ship with the cross and bones flying from the mizzenmast was a feared sight in the eyes of captains of merchant barques.
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In vain Mahoney strove to get the men to take turns in watching aloft from the mizzenmast for any chance vessel.
THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT"
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Heading aft towards the stern, we found the mizzenmast collapsed, which was why it had not shown up on the sonar.
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For a few minutes, he hung on to the mizzen rigging, face to the wind, revelling in the glory of it.
CORMORANT
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Fresh water, in small quantities, they were able to obtain by holding a cover of a tureen under the saddle of the mizzenmast.
THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT"
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Also, the fore-and-aft sail on the mizzenmast, originally a triangular lateen sail, was changed to accommodate the more modern rig.
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In the right foreground is the French ship ‘Bucentaure’ in starboard-bow view, with her mizzen mast and main topgallant mast shot away.
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A nao was a Portuguese term nef or nau in French for a full-rigged round ship, with large square-rigged sails on two or three masts, sometimes with a lateen-rigged mizzen and a smaller mast called a bonaventure abaft the mizzen.
Champlain's Dream
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Davy's leg between the rudder beam and the wheel post, while Johnny lay sprawling on the deck, holding on like grim death to a stray end of the mizzen-halliard that had been cast loose from the cleats.
Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
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A gust of wind hit them as the mizzensail was unfurled, followed by the mainsail and the foresail.
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She was a high-bowed, thirty-seven-foot drifter with tabernacled mainmast and a mizzen astern.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Over our head, from the jiggermast, the steel stays that carry the three jigger-trysails descend high above the break of the poop and across the main deck to the mizzenmast.
CHAPTER XLIV
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She is generally under two topsails, fore and main topsails, fore and foretopmast staysails, sometimes topgallant sails and jib, but seldom any sail on the mizzen, except while in chase of a vessel.
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Sure, you need to be able to tell the contemporary equivalent of a fore topgallant from a mizzen topsail, but that's what all those seminars and lectures are for.
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Tarangini is a ‘Barque’, which means she is square rigged on the fore and mainmasts and fore and aft rigged on the mizzenmast.
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We dropped everything except the main and mizzen, tried in vain to get some speed, then gave up and sheeted them in tight and turned on the engine.
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Of historical interest are the topgallant sails carried on the fore and main masts, the lateen topsails and topgallants on the mizzen and the topsail on the bonaventure mizzen mast at the stern.
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Fastened by chains to the mainmast were a number of grisly staghounds, who now began leaping and barking at me, and by the mizzen a huge puma was cramped in a little iron cage far too small even to give it turning room.
The Island of Doctor Moreau
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Meanwhile, the commander had stationed lookout men on the crossjack yard and mizzen top, as well as in the weather rigging, to seek for any trace of the poor fellow.
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
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In vain Mahoney strove to get the men to take turns in watching aloft from the mizzenmast for any chance vessel.
THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT"
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She was already well down by the stern, and with her stern under, the seas was breaking against her mizzen and washing up the decks.
THE MAIN CAGES
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An impression of paint, varnish, and carpentry was in the air; a gaudy new burgee fluttered aloft; there seemed to be a new rope or two, especially round the diminutive mizzen-mast, which itself looked altogether new.
The Riddle of the Sands
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He made his way to the yam sacks lashed abaft the mizzenmast and got his bottle.
CHAPTER XI
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Thus, the fore-braces run to the top of the forecastle, the main - braces to the top of the 'midship-house, and the mizzen-braces to the poop.
Chapter 31
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During the reign of Henry the Eighth, ships with two and three masts carried main and top sails, lateen mizzen sails and spritsails set under the bowsprit.
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Some of the larger craft built in the Civil War era were fitted out as barkentines, with square sails forward and schooner-rigged main and mizzen masts. ...
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Besides overseeing the continuous adjustment, by trimming of sails and orders to the helmsman, of the Arangi to her way on the sea, and overseeing the boat’s crew at its task of washing deck and polishing brasswork, he was engaged in steadily nipping from a stolen bottle of his captain’s whiskey which he had stowed away in the hollow between the two sacks of yams lashed on deck aft the mizzenmast.
CHAPTER VII
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At sea a bonaventure was the French name for a very short mizzen mast, stepped abaft a tall mainmast—in much the same way that this young Indian lad tagged along behind the governor.
Champlain's Dream
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The bight of a rope was made into a running knot and hove round the body of the animal; when, the men hauling away with a will at the other end of the line, which was passed through a snatch-block hung in the rigging, the captive was soon bowsed up to the mizzen chains.
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea
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A nao was a Portuguese term nef or nau in French for a full-rigged round ship, with large square-rigged sails on two or three masts, sometimes with a lateen-rigged mizzen and a smaller mast called a bonaventure abaft the mizzen.
Champlain's Dream
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Her forestaysail and mizzen spanker were set as though an effort had been made to hold her head up into the wind, but the sheets had parted, and the sails were tearing to ribbons in the half gale of wind.
Tarzan of the Apes
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Besides overseeing the continuous adjustment, by trimming of sails and orders to the helmsman, of the Arangi to her way on the sea, and overseeing the boat's crew at its task of washing deck and polishing brasswork, he was engaged in steadily nipping from a stolen bottle of his captain's whiskey which he had stowed away in the hollow between the two sacks of yams lashed on deck aft the mizzenmast.
Chapter 7
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When I finished, I pulled my sleeping bag out from the foot locker, hauled it up top to the main deck and spread it out between the main and mizzen masts.
Jerry Nelson: Sea Spray and Time Travel
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Sails can be divided into four main categories: mains (and mizzens), foresails (what we have been calling jibs), staysails, and spinnakers.
Sailing Fundamentals
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On the side farthest from him was the French vessel, ‘Redoubtable’, its mizzen top garnished with sharpshooters about 15 metres from the Admiral.
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It was square-rigged on its foremasts and mainmasts, but used a lateen sail on the mizzen to help in tacking.
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American and other, were at half-mast, as was the admiral's square blue flag at the mizzen, which is never lowered while he remains on duty on board.
From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life
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Bellerophon's main topmast had been shot away and her mizzen topmast was in a precarious state.
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He had picked up some of the names, but he had no idea which sail the mizzen skysail was, nor the fore topgallant.
Wellspring of Chaos
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It increased to the strength of a hurricane towards one o'clock in the morning, when, the fore-topsail and mizzen staysail blowing away, the ship had to content herself with running under bare poles, careering through the water faster than ever.
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea
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Before morning the yard was in its place and the sail set and, except for the shortened mizzen, and a ragged hole through the bulwark, forward, the polacre showed no signs of the engagement of the evening before.
Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)
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For a few minutes, he hung on to the mizzen rigging, face to the wind, revelling in the glory of it.
CORMORANT
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She landed on the mizzenmast and cut it down as she had the main.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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She was given a tall mizzen mast, with a large gaff sail, well forward of the wheel and a smaller spritsail.
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Her fore topmasts and yards, studdingsail booms and yards, jibbooms and entire mizzen masts were shot away.
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And at this moment the watch swarmed on to the poop to haul on the port-braces of the mizzen-sky-sail, royal and topgallant-sail.
CHAPTER XXVI
