98 examples of mainmasts in sentences

And so, having all ready, we hove the mainmast into position, after which we proceeded to rig it.

The convulsive blows of the cannon had cracked the mizzenmast, and had cut into the mainmast.

He stood with his back against the mainmast.

The Chevalier de la Vieuville had drawn up the marines in line on both sides of the mainmast, and at the sound of the boatswain's whistle the sailors formed in line, standing on the yards.

The old passenger, still leaning against the mainmast, had crossed his arms, and was buried in thought.

She came around side to the wind, and at this moment her mainmast was blown over the side.

The Kent, with Admiral Watson's flag flying, quickly followed her, but before she could reach her proper station, the tide of ebb unfortunately made down the river, which occasioned her anchor to drag, so that before she brought up she had fallen abreast of the south-east bastion, the place where the Salisbury should have been, and from her mainmast aft she was exposed to the flank guns of the south-west bastion also.

Next morn, as the sun rose over the bay, Still floated our flag at the mainmast-head.

"Give her the stay-sails, if you will, and no harm done; but a true seaman will never get a bagful of wind between his mainmast and his lee-swifter, if-so-be he knows his business.

"A charming sea-boat, Mr Wilder," he continued, "and one that never throws a drop of spray abaft her mainmast.

a huge shell from an Armstrong eighteen-ton gun burst between the fore and mainmasts; the bow pivot-gun was dismounted; ten men of her crew down; the maintopmast stays cut, and the maintopmast tottering.

Two more shells struck the wooden hull of the "Franklin" between the fore and mainmasts, tearing a great rent in her side and literally annihilating the crews of four guns.

Her fore and mainmasts were gone, and clouds of dark smoke were lazily ascending from her forecastle.

If a ship could be imagined as cut through by a plane, at right angles to the keel, close to the mainmast, the area, or surface, of all the sails on this would be five or six times as great as that of the section or profile of the hull!

Being a better sailer than the others, this ship was soon a long way ahead; and William had a mariner sent to the top of the mainmast to see if the fleet were following.

A serious wound was given to the mainmast below the hounds, and the yard itself was shivered in the slings.

that would be just her play; and the lugger keeps off a little, I rather suspect, to ease her mainmast.

The spars had all stood, and Raoul no longer hesitated about trusting his wounded mainmast with a new yard and sail.

The superiority of the lugger in sailing was now so great as to put it out of all question that she was not to be overtaken in the chase; and Raoul at one time actually thought of turning up along the land and going into Bastia, where he might even provide himself with a new mainmast at need.

It is scarcely necessary to say that the search was not rewarded with success, the Feu-Follet being, just at that time, snug at anchor at Bastia, where her people had already taken out her wounded mainmast, with a view to step a new one in its place.

Sam, the burly negro, was leaning against the mainmast, probably torturing his thick skull as to the best means of helping his young friend, whom he loved so well.

The cachalot or sperm-whale is one of the largest cetaceans, often attaining a length of more than 80 ft. le grand mât, the mainmast.

Our mainmast being tall Overboard

For how was I to know the boy I had left in a midshipman's jacket, in this mainmast of a man, undress-uniform and all? "I've no need to ask, Is it Alice?"

"There was not a single man standing," wrote a young officer on board of her, "the whole way from the mainmast forward, a district containing eight guns a side, some of which were run out ready for firing, others lay dismounted, and others remained as they were after recoiling....

98 examples of  mainmasts  in sentences