topgallant

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• 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
• In the afternoon set the fore and main topgallant sails. 1pm set the mizzen topgallant sail and spanker.
• The topmast in turn supported the topgallant mast, which could be lowered and replaced, if necessary, even at sea.
• Then it was clewlines and buntlines and lowering of yards as the topgallant-sails were stripped off. CHAPTER XXIX
• Between whiles, and all the while, he gauged the gusts, and ever his eyes lifted to the main-topgallant-yard. CHAPTER XXXVIII
• Aye, aye, sir," the boy answered readily, for he enjoyed being aloft, and he clambered up the shrouds to the fore-topgallant yard and furled the sail, taking a pride in having it lie smooth and round on the top of the yard. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries
• The overlapping view makes it difficult to sort out the various spars, but it appears that the foremast has only lower and topmasts, while topgallants are carried on the main and mizen.
• Mildmay stood for a moment, as one in a dream, watching the submergence of the ill-fated _Mercury's_ jib-boom end and fore-topgallant mast-head The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure
• 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
• Sometimes additional pieces of wood were fastened to the topmasts, which carried topgallant sails.