How To Use skysail In A Sentence
- All the miracle of sails; the steady foresail; the sensitive jibs; the press canvas delicate as bubbles; the reliable main; the bluff topsails; topgallants like eager horses; the impertinent skysails; the jaunty moonraker, were just canvas stretched on poles. The Wind Bloweth
- 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 skysails were already furled; men were furling the royals; and the topgallant-yards were running down while clewlines and buntlines bagged the canvas. CHAPTER XXXIII
- 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
- 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
- The order was given to loose the main-skysail, which is the fifth and highest sail from deck. Redburn. His First Voyage
- A dash of the same brine will help keep the ballast right, then a skysail-yard breakfast must be carefully stowed away, in order to give a firmness to the timbers, and on the strength of these two blocks for shoring up the hull, you must begin little by little, and keep on brightening up until you have got the craft all right again. An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
- Mr. Pike sent look-outs aloft to every skysail-yard, and the Elsinore slipped along through the smooth sea. CHAPTER XVIII
- A skysail was a lightweight sail hoisted to the very peak of the mast, used only in extremely faint winds.
- Constitution had royals above her topgallants, and later she had even higher sails called skysails.
