25 examples of halliards in sentences

We're ready to pull halliards at the word.

" They did not answer me; but after a little more, when my expostulations had become more positive, Handy Solomon dropped the halliard, and drew me to one side.

"Wind," he screamed at the top of his voice, and jumped for the halliards.

"The halliards must have disintegrated from some slow action of the celestium.

It has cost me new halliards and rigging for the Eclipse, and Brutus a disfigured countenancenot that I am complaining.

Carr cast off, and, with the negro and myself at the halliards, the mainsail rose to the caps, while we began gliding out from the shore into the deeper water.

Believing my best policy would be to join those busied on deck, just as though I belonged among them, I crept down the forecastle ladder, and worked my way aft beneath the black shadow of the port rail, until able thus to drift unnoticed into a group tailing on to a mainsail halliard.

Mendez and Anderson (at least I supposed these to be the two) were poised at the sail halliards, ready to let the straining sheet down at a run, while Cochose crouched low in the bow, his black hand uplifted, gripping a coil of rope.

Not yet am I ready to weigh anchor, and reeve halliard, and turn my prow over the watery paths of the wine-brown Deeps.

I've seen him beat that boy till the blood ran down in little pools on deck; then send him up, all wet and red, to clear the to'sail halliards; and when, what with the pain and faintness, he dizzied a little, and clung to the ratlines, half blind, he would have him down and flog him till the cap'n interfered,which would happen occasionally on a fair day when he had taken just enough to be good-natured.

Together they lay motionless upon the deck, Harry and Nep, when the captain coming along would have stumbled over them, had he not caught at a halliard near by.

He heard the rhythmic squeak of the halliards through the sheaves, and the scrape of the gaff going up.

It was quivering like a flag-halliard in a stiff breeze.

I paddled my spar over to him and I got loose a few yards of halliard that were hangin' from one end of it.

Any one who has seen an outward-bound clipper ship getting under way and heard the "shanty-songs" sung by the sailors as they toiled at capstan and halliards, will probably remember that rhymeless but melodious refrain

Mark now sprang to the jib-halliards, assisting Bob to hoist the sail.

But sail was necessary to carry the ship safely through the channel ahead, and Mark called to Bob to lash the helm a-midships after luffing up to his course, and to spring to the main-topmast staysail halliards, and help him hoist the sail.

At two trips the raft carried all the provisions and stores that were wanted, and the cargoes were landed, rolled up to the side of the pinnace, hoisted on board of her, by means of the throat-halliard, and properly stowed.

With some difficulty he persuaded Marcia to hold the tiller while he let go the halliards.

But not an inch of canvas did she lower, but floundered on in her stolid fashion, while a little black ball ran up to her peak, and the rare old flag streamed suddenly out from the halliard.

Something black washed to and fro beside a splintered gaff and a tangle of halliards.

He was sure that all was in order, the halliards well turned, the sails suitably trimmed.

Then she will go under, and her spirit will return to the dust with her flag as it slides down the halliards.

Then you'll be all O.K." Little Andy Bowles made the woods behind them echo with the stirring call of "assembly," and halliards were reeved on a previously cut pole, about fifteen feet in height.

Every halliard was let go, and down came every sail by the run, and then the brig Miranda ended this voyage, and all others, upon the shore of a desolate Patagonian island.

25 examples of  halliards  in sentences