We had several spare yards, and two or three large spars of wood, and a spare topmast or two in the ship: I resolved to fall tp work with these, and I flung as many of them overboard as I could manage for their weight, tying every one with a rope, that they might not drive away.

We swayed back and forth to the sharp pitching of the ship, barely able to keep our feet, sparring for some advantage.

He is quite ready to spar with you for practice, and he will come any hour you will name.

But the scene was impressive, and spoke eloquently of a grieved heart; he sparred in silence all the time, and the servant thought that he hit harder than was his habit: at last he suddenly flung away the gloves and retired to his own room.

I would be greatly pleased also to receive from you a notice of the fluor spar from Illinois; of the fossil tree; and, in short, any of your scientific or miscellaneous observations, which you may see fit to intrust to the pages of the journal, I shall be happy to receive, and trust they would not have a disadvantageous introduction to the world.

Another cut a main spar on one of my wings, and another hit my stabilizer, tearing it half in two.

But you are like a newly fitted ship, with all your rigging tight, and your spars without a warp in them.

At the door they rushed, bearing the spar as a battering ram.

quivered Dan Dalzell, bending over the spar at the middle.

To this, however, the men were accustomed, it frequently happening that the moisture deposited on their rigging and spars by the fogs froze during the nights of the autumn.

We could make out the spars under shortened sail, and soon we were hailed from the deck.

Thus clinging fast to that slight spar within her arms, the mother drifted out upon the dark and unknown sea that rolls round all the world.

Bill sparred around the main question, but finally asked if it was too late to get dinner, and was very politely informed that dinner was over.

The other rigging I cut, and having got out the fids of the two masts, one at a time, I pushed the spars through their respective caps with a foot.

The Skimmer, accompanied by his two silent but obedient seamen, ventured along the attenuated and submerged spars to the extremity of the tapering masts, and after toiling, with the dexterity of men accustomed to deal with the complicated machinery of a ship in the darkest nights, they succeeded in releasing the two smaller masts with their respective yards, and in floating them down to the body of the wreck, or the part around the top.

The one image which stood clearly out of the confusion was that of the Celestine, raising gracious spars above the house-tops.

Two swimmers wrestled on the spar Until the morning sun, When one turned smiling to the land.

Without Neb's strength and presence of mind, we had been lost beyond a hope; for swimming up to the spars against the sea that was on, would have been next to hopeless; and even if there, without food, or water, our fate would have been sealed.

The eye of the strap slipping from the yard, down went the spar into the water.

I dare say he lost his spars off Cape Hatteras in trying to outsail that Daggett; but I overlook all that now.