She was heavily sparred, and to my eye her canvas appeared unduly weather-beaten and rotten.

The gale came howling over the Hermits, but was so much broken by the rocks as to do little more than whistle through the cordage and spars aloft.

They got some old sails and some spars ashore, and soon had a spacious, as well as a comfortable habitation of this sort erected.

For the first twenty seconds of the third round the two men sparred cautiously.

Jo would spar feebly.

Ay, nor is that all I will say in her favour; she is throughout neatly and lightly sparred, and has no more of a wall-side than the walls of yonder church tumble-home.