How To Use Fore-topmast In A Sentence
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The full-jib was also set, and, as it departed in shreds, the fore-topmast staysail was being hoisted.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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Jane_, as the fore-topmast had soon snapped off sharp at the cap like a carrot, bringing with it, of course, the fore-topgallant mast as well, and the main-topgallant mast, with their respective yards and other spars, and the jib-boom as well.
Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
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In our illustration the vessel has set her fore studding-sail, her fore-topmast studding-sail and her fore-topgallant studding-sail -- studding-sail being pronounced stu'nsail, just as topgallant-sail is telescoped into topgantsail.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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The full-jib was also set, and, as it departed in shreds, the fore-topmast staysail was being hoisted.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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A sorry, pitiful sight she looked, her fore-topmast broken off clean at the cap, her sails shivering in the wind.
Hornblower In The West Indies
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The fore-topmast is a - complainin 'like anythink, I can tell ye, sir.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
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There was a lookout on the fore-topmast crosstrees; but almost every one was looking out in the direction where some trace of David and Jonathan might be discovered.
Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
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The full-jib was also set, and, as it departed in shreds, the fore-topmast staysail was being hoisted.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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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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Captain Doane shouted to one of the sailors who had just emerged from the forecastle scuttle, sea - bag in hand, and over whom the fore-topmast was swaying giddily.
CHAPTER XV
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Then the fore-topmast would fall, yards would fall.
Hornblower And The Hotspur
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The port shrouds of the foremast carried away at the chain-plates, and the fore-topmast leaned over drunkenly to starboard.
CHAPTER XV
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Jane_, as the fore-topmast had soon snapped off sharp at the cap like a carrot, bringing with it, of course, the fore-topgallant mast as well, and the main-topgallant mast, with their respective yards and other spars, and the jib-boom as well.
Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
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More of the sailors took advantage of the interval to rush for'ard under the toppling fore-topmast, dive into the forecastle, and hastily pack their sea-bags.
CHAPTER XV
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Having called all hands, we closereefed the topsails and trysail, furled the courses and jib, set the fore-topmast staysail, and brought her up nearly to her course, with the weather braces hauled in a little, to ease her.
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative