It was noon, the sky overcast, the wind blowing strong from the southeast, when the Virginia coast was first sighted from our mast-head.

It was a job that required time, rather than strength; for my movements were greatly facilitated by the presence of the top-mast rigging, which remained in its place, almost as taut as when upright.

O'er ocean with a thousand masts sails on the young man bold One boat, hard-rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!

Two more ships being driven from their anchors, were run out of the roads to sea, at all adventures, and that with not a mast standing.

At length we reduced the canvass to the fore-top-mast stay-sail, and main-top-sail, the latter double-reefed.

Go to your task, and if one fails me, it will mean the lash at the mast-butt.

Yet, further than this, the bo'sun bade the carpenter make wooden caps of six inch oak, these caps to fit over the squared heads of the lower-mast stumps, and having a hole, each of them, to embrace the jury-mast, and by making these caps in two halves, they were able to bolt them on after the masts had been hove into position.

BURGE, MILWARD RODON KENNEDY. Half-mast murder, by Milward Kennedy, pseud.

"Because I didn't like working for two mast-ers," he replied.

There were three ships, and one two-mast vessel lying within the harbor at the time that the English engaged the sloop and ship.

He got out his knife and whittled the mast half through.

They set fire to the brig, then lay to, to observe the progress of the flames; and as the miserable African bounded from rope to rope, now climbing to the mast headnow clinging to the shroudsnow leaping to one part of the vessel, and now to another,their enjoyment seemed raised to its heighest pitch.

I wander objectlessly, pleasurelessly about with Vickapparently sharing my depressiontrotting subduedly, with tail half-mast high, at my heels, and at length sit down on a bench under a mulberry-tree.

Would the mast hold against the grounding shock?

The lofty mast impends, the banner waves, 145 The ruffled surge th' incumbent vessel laves; With eager eye he views her destin'd foe Lead to her peaceful shores th' advent'rous prow; Trembling she knelt, with wild disorder'd air, And pour'd with frantic energy her pray'r 150 "Oh, ye avenging spirits of the deep!

THE GREEK SAILORS Still preserve the custom mentioned by Homer, of hauling their vessels on shore with the prows resting on the beach; having done this, they place the mast lengthwise across the prow and the poop, and spread the sail over it, so as to form a tent; beneath these tents they sing their songs, drinking wine freely, and accompanying their voices with the lyre, or three-stringed viol.

Every night you'll see her out on the green, straining her poor eyes with looking for the mast-lights among the stars.

In Oregon and Washington it grows in dense forests, growing tall and mast-like to a height of 300 feet, and is greatly prized as a lumber tree.

Her damages reduced themselves to the loss of the top-sail and the foretop-mast stay-saila loss which it would be easy to repair.

"The younkers are the young men called fore-mast men, to take in the top-sailes, or top and yard, for furling the sailes, or slinging the yards, bousing or trising, and take their turnes at helme.

To the mast nail our flag it is dark as the grave, Or the death which it bears while it sweeps o'er the wave; Let our deck clear for action, our guns be prepared; Be the boarding-axe sharpened, the scimetar bared: Set the canisters ready, and then bring to me, For the last of my duties, the powder-room key.

Another thing worthy of observation is the aged and majestic appearance of the trees, of which the most noble is the mast pine.

In one of the smacks an elderly fisher was kneeling in a forward sprawling pose, clasping the lug-mast with his arms, the two knees wide apart, head thrown back, and the yellow eye-balls with their islands of grey iris staring straight up the mast-pole.

Feed a measure of it every day to each steer; or if they have not been worked it will be sufficient to let them pasture the mast beds.

" Watkins led the way up the main-mast ratlines, and Cole was first into the fore shrouds, the others following eagerly.