123 examples of masthead in sentences

Mark, too, how grandly the banners wave as the wind is deflected against their sides, and how trimly each is attached to the very summit of its peak, like a streamer at a masthead; how smooth and silky they are in texture, and how finely their fading fringes are penciled on the azure sky.

A masthead lookout, who had first seen the midshipmen, was now signaling the way to the officer in command of the launch.

Unable to see for himself, the officer in the launch depended wholly on those masthead signals.

Within another hour it was possible to signal, and from the "Princess Irene's" masthead the signal flags were broken out.

A big pump throbbed on board, throwing water down her side; she flew a small, bright red ensign aft and a new house-flag at the masthead.

The North wind in the trees, instead of blustering dismissal, sounded to our ears like the fluttering of the blue-peter at the masthead of our voyage.

So Hood, with that inspiration of genius so common then among sailors, laid his seventy-four, the Centaur, close alongside the Diamond; made a hawser, with a traveller on it, fast to the ship and to the top of the rock; and in January 1804 got three long 24's and two 18's hauled up far above his masthead by sailors who, as they 'hung like clusters,' appeared 'like mice hauling a little sausage.

The order had hardly left his lips, when Harry, with a hearty "aye, aye, sir!" sprang into the cross-trees, and in a twinkling had reached the masthead, calling out in a voice which brought to the mind of each old tar that he had once a mother,"square away it is, sir.

In this hope we were not deceived; but before it was effected, we had very nearly suffered from the careless look-out of the man at the masthead.

Standing to the eastward we discovered the three sandy isletsh, i, and k; and at noon, we were near two other sandy islets, y, and z, which appeared to be the north-westernmost of a group of low, sandy, or rocky islets, extending to the South-East, beyond the limits of our masthead view.

Beyond the lakes was a range of rocky hills, that bounded our masthead view.

"Only a night or two before I had seen his wife at a reception with a rope of pearls in her riggin' an' a search-light o' diamonds on her forward deck an' a tiara-boom-de-ay at her masthead an' the flags of opulence flyin' fore an' aft.

Later, about 7 P.M. Evans saw two icebergs far on the port beam; they could only be seen from the masthead.

From the masthead one can see a few patches of open water in different directions, but the main outlook is the same scene of desolate hummocky pack.

The scene witnessed by our friends at the masthead of the Dolphin on this occasion was surpassingly beautiful.

It was a buoy, a piece of masthead, the drift from a distant shipwreck.

And through the middle of it all, in single filetheir topmasts, yards, and cordage showing above the murk as pale and dumb as skeletons at every flare of the havoc, a white light twinkling at each masthead, a red light at the peak and the stars and stripes there with itFarragut and his

the huger frowning over the bulwarks, the lesser in unbroken rows, scowling each from its own port-hole, while every masthead revealed itself a little fort bristling with arms and men.

Mr. Carr furnished the garment and it was tied to the masthead.

The land, on the east and south of the Gulf of Carpentaria, is so low, that for a space of nearly six hundred milesfrom Endeavour Strait to a range of hills on the mainland, west of Wellesley Islands, at the bottom of the gulfno part of the coast is higher than a ship's masthead.

We were now surrounded on all sides by flat shores, and from the masthead, I could trace the low land forming the western side of the principal channel.

Light head winds and a strong current delayed her progress till July 17th, when at two o'clock in the afternoon, off Barnegat on the New Jersey coast, the lookout at the masthead discovered four sails to the northward, and two hours later a fifth sail to the northeast.

A line of coast extending from Cape Rodney to the westward and northward about eighty miles, the latter half with a continuous line of reef running parallel with the coast, is laid down in a chart by Flinders,* as having been "seen from the Providence's masthead, August 30th 1792.

From the masthead we could see the surf of the southern border of this great reef, the space between being a lagoon of apparently navigable water.

The halyards reeve through a hole in a projecting arm a foot long at the masthead.

123 examples of  masthead  in sentences