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forward, grabs hold of John and the mast
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There were some yachts with more than one mast with crews of six sitting around and puttering at maintenance
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I couldn't see them behind the mast I was bound to, only hear them, the crunching and tearing and their wet snorts and sputters
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Nlara still clung to the mainsail rings high up the mast
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There were a couple kegs aboard, owned by Yarnay on mast six, and she was able to mooch a cup or two a day out of them, but that was what Luray used to drink with lunch
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Yarnay was noticing a lot more about her than her thirst for yaag, so was Tuida, the other guy on mast six
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She had gone out in her cotton nightrobe, now discarded in a sodden heap at the base of the mast
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"I wouldn't want to be touching the mast
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The girls from third mast gave a nod as she went over the rail, indicating they knew of no sheelunge to warn them of
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Desa's heart stopped when Tiytha came over to Luray and said 'your turn', and left them to tend the mast for awhile
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Luray, the sad, blond, storytelling woman from mast five responded but was close by and came to stand with her at the rail
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I'm going to try and see something from the mast before Wen Island but we'll probably hold steady til then
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" There was a pause, then Luray asked, "So how's things on your mast?"
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Seconds after that he was scrambling down the mast with his funny looking duffle pack
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The roof of that cabin was a deck, and there was another small cabin on top of it that reached to the lowest of the great horizontal booms on the middle mast
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They went up a flight of stairs just aft of the middle mast and into a wide hallway with a nice kitchen in the middle, between two large tables, a few lounges with bookcases and candlelanterns nearby
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There came a time in late Morningday in week Zawmathii, their third week out of Shempala when she was on the topdeck because of duty on the middle mast
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If she kept this up she would be tending her mast with a buzz and she didn't think that was something Byia would approve of
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"I wasn't planning on standing your mast for you either, even if the wind is dying down
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The youngster you meant to guide on this trip to the city is manning his mast as one of my ablest crew
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"She thought we should stand her mast for her because she's hung over from today's party
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Then she was lead to a little boat with a single square sail on a single mast
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The sergeant sat in front of the tiller, back against the mast, and gabbed with the captain most of the day
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She spent the day, like all the other days at sea, sitting in front of the mast with her back against it
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She hung her head and started to crawl back to her position by the mast, but Patass’ arm went around her waist and drew her up to sit on his lap
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Oh it had a mast and rudder, but half the time they were rowing it, and at the oars was the only spot on board wide enough for two to sit abreast
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In this dingy, leaning against the mast meant her feet were over the bow
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Attached to the keel pocket they fitted a mast step and installed the necessary hardware around the gunwales to secure the intended mast
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She had taken the mast completely down and was disassembling it when she began the explanation of the state of man's being and of the structure of man's machine, that it was a microcosm of the great world and how it was supposed to function
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The mast was turned over to them when the ship was just reaching out into the open lake
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“We’ve come over to the rail next to the winch, I’ve made eye contact with the deck marshal and he knows that this winch, and therefore mast, is manned
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” Flavio pointed toward a rusty mast
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So he told his men to tie him to the mast and to not let him go for any reason
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We've got a smaller boat now, and we share a mast
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"I think they're 'up to' about half mast if you ask me," Klowa said
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Her gait was regal, her bearing so straight, she might have been a ship’s mast
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Among the countless things they’d talked about while clinging to a mast from Father’s ship, she remembered Andrastus describing how to coax milk
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Instead of acorn mast, she gave them
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Father sent Andrastus up our mast to have a look
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I scarcely had the heart to hang onto the mast
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And bids them lash him to the mast
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As far back as she could remember, the ship’s mast had been white
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They’d been clinging to the mast for days, ever since it broke loose in the storm
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her from the twisted sail, laid her over the mast at its crosstree, and pressed the brine out of her lungs
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So Andrastus used the last of his strength to untie a piece of sail cloth still clinging to the mast
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She told them to set it forward of the mast as they ran before the wind
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With the strong gale before, this extra canvas might have snapped the mast, but now she needed to catch all the wind she could
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As soon as Miklos came down from the mast, Nerissa had him fill more buckets
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This mast, once shorn of its sails and ropes, I then cut into eight “logs” of equal The Perfect Prank
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positioned high on a platform near the top of the main mast
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mast above the deck
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A barque with long mast heads, and she looks American
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"Tie them to the mast
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Saldon and Halon were trussed up and secured to the creaking mast
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Fysto was fairly certain that if he didn’t regain control of the rudder within the next five minutes, the ship’s mast would snap and it would sink not long after
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I followed the direction of his finger and shuddered as I spotted a small black dot perched at the very top of a tall, slender radio mast
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I was left contemplating the small black dot perched precariously at to the top of the radio mast
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As it turned out, Uncle Hobart came down from the radio mast a lot quicker than any of us might have expected
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When the radio station went on air to broadcast the news that an old aged pensioner, dressed as Spiderman, had climbed to the top of their radio mast, the electrical current it generated had the desired effect
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Within hours, a helicopter hovered above Mystic's mast, heralding the arrival of a U
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It came free and swung in a high arc, over the mast of the boat, disappearing in its hold where the woman went to meet it
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Anything, from booms, to mast, to engine parts and decking could be hollowed out and, if done well, made into a cache undetectable even to trained dogs: the only way to find the drug, if one was certain it was aboard, would be a gradual disassembly of the entire craft
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About the only thing that he could see would possibly be hit if the 40-millimeters opened fire, was the top of its radio mast, but the Russian captain looked nervous nevertheless
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The fishing boat’s rigging had been shredded by the machine gun, and long lengths of line whipped out from its mast, cracking in the wind
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Had the cutter’s radio mast carried away in the storm? Was its radio damaged or inoperative? He decided it was better that he did not think about such things too much
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like he who lies up on the top of the mast
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23 Your tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not
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purchased at her shop rather than driving all the way to the Mast shopping mall
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The mast difficult thing to understand is why the travellers did not recognise the
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So I was his legal advisor at non judicial punishment hearings (NJP) called in the Navy, Captain’s Mast, which resulted in reductions in rank, confinement to the vessel (hard to do while it is still being built), the brig or prison
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The base of the mast was held tightly in the old lady by another heavy, carved block of oak called a "father-in-law"
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Crow"s nest: lookout stand high up on a mast
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Mainmast: second mast from the bow of the ship that has two or more masts, or the single mast of a ship which has only one mast
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Anchored in place, their mast lights guided vessels into shallow waters, channels, rivers and harbors
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the top two-thirds of the mast slipped into the water, dragging
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The lower third of the mast that was left
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to do anything with this mast? We would need a mountain of
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serious question: What would you do with only one mast and no
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to the mast with rope
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I’d cut holes in it, and then wind the rope up the mast, threading
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It lay a little to one side, and the broken mast, now shorter than before, stuck out at an angle
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He asked the mast, "Who would he have guide the boat but those sailing it? What thinks he, that one who sails the sea can be dismayed by a mere stream?"
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into the mast, then staggered toward the stern of the boat
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All there creaked: the floor creaked, the rails creaked, the chairs creaked, the mast creaked; even the members of the crew, creaked
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Suddenly, as a confirmation that my presence was bearer of bad omens, a thick fog began to cover the boat, and the sailors, afraid, blamed me for that natural event! As if I had the power of Jupiter on bad weather and tides! The sea, serene when we sailed, now was enraged, powerful, enormous, shedding the sails and turning them into broken strips hanging from the mast with an undulating motion that looked like the tongue of a dark monster making woods creaked even more, incessantly, as if Neptune were splitting the ship with his two hands
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Up they went, and lying on their bellies among the boulders, saw a painted mast jutting up beyond the trees to the west
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Invulnerable in his armor, his back against the mast, he heaped mangled corpses at his feet until his enemies gave back panting in rage and fear
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But a clean tanging wind bellied her silken sail, and as a wild swan cleaves the sky to her nest, she sped seaward, flames mounting higher and higher from her deck to lick at the mast and envelop the figure that lay lapped in scarlet on the shining pyre
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Had Zaporavo known he was being compared, even though unconsciously, with a man before the mast, he would have been speechless with amazed anger
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Struggling to see through the grey, almost black water, Travis saw part of a broken mast, the hounds -- the mast hounds -- the projection on the mast head to support the trees and top
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Two servants, a young man with a round, friendly face, and a middle-aged woman still wearing a cook's apron, stood by the flag mast
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Till over the mast at noon—"
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He reminds me of the mast of a ship, only much more fragile
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snap-snap of the canvas as it rose up the mast
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Bring back the tattered sail and the cracked mast
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My flag of truth flies at half mast
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” Mungo climbed down the mast and jumped the last five foot onto the deck
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It was to this vain standard that the crew now rallied, the ensign of the Company having been torn from the mast by the hurricane winds and sent flapping into the mist
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He had been aloft now for twenty-four hours now, his meals having been passed up to him by means of a rope which he lowered to the base of the mast and had a basket tied to it, in the manner of a man drawing water from a well
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Herndon could see it between the masts
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You can't take this barge out there, you need a vessel that's all one hull and no more than three masts
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Two masts had gone and four of the crew before we rolled over the first time
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When Alan and Desa had their masts shifted, the sails were now taking the ends of the ship in opposite directions
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The café is situated on one side of a small square and, from where I am sitting, I can see the masts of boats bobbing at the quay just down the street; the tang of salt in the air is tantalising
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It had five masts but they were much larger, and the ship itself was much larger
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It's nests were just tiny lookout platforms high in the masts
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Instead it had a large cabin which looked like the packet they came in on, turned sideways over the deck between the third and fourth masts
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Shift change was now complete, all masts were covered and the captains were on the outdoor bridge for the final approach
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The three of them had the first three masts
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Its three black masts dominated the bay of Dorini like primed Harpoon missiles locked onto a delicate conservation sanctuary
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The first squall of wind carried away two carbon fibre masts of The Kaliantiakos and left just the foremast standing
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The bridge is over three hundred feet above the water, well above the tallest masts on Canyon Lake, at the level of the highest streets in the canyonwall
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Its two masts each had lateen sails
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What’s more, our ships had sturdy masts and sails
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Those of us who still were able climbed the masts to peer across the waves
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Of this kind are all naval stores, masts, yards, and bowsprits, tar, pitch, and turpentine, pig and bar iron, copper ore, hides and skins, pot and pearl ashes
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The prohibition of exporting from the colonies to any other country but Great Britain, masts, yards, and bowsprits, tar, pitch, and turpentine, naturally tended to lower the price of timber in the colonies, and consequently to increase the expense of clearing their lands, the principal obstacle to their
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Under this denomination were comprehended timber fit for masts, yards, and bowsprits; hemp, tar, pitch, and turpentine
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and, to me, it was an imposing forest of masts and ropes
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The three mines, the ore refinery and the solar farms relied on radio masts for communication
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Rather than just send audio transmissions via these masts, the electronics boffins of the colony had set up a wide area wireless data network to allow all the different geographical locations to remain in constant contact, allowing both voice communication and data flow between them, even video when the need arose
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masts of his vessels so that the enemy would think they were
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They had masts, sails, oars, a compass, lanterns, and a hatchet and small chest for pistols and cutlasses
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As soon as she reached clear water, her masts were cut so she could not sail away, and
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Only a few rotted masts reaching skyward as a last desperate plea for help showed where these once seaworthy vessels had been above the black waters
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Birds were flying around in circles and the trees that littered the local park were beginning to sway back and forth like masts in the wind
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Raul pulled the car into the empty lot to park at the foot of the fishermen’s dock and sat studying the forest of booms and masts
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There were six masts, two that could be removed in bad weather
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They had the V-shaped hull and long keel and used the heavy ballast of the fuchuan but had the masts and rigging of the shachuan
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There were nine staggered masts which held twelve square silk sails instead of the bamboo sails of the Choson ships on which I had sailed
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This was dangerous, as the ships were imbalanced while the masts were being raised, and a big wave hitting a ship's side then could topple it
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He turned and pointed to a large pirate ship with three tall masts, anchored about a half mile off shore
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Mainmast: second mast from the bow of the ship that has two or more masts, or the single mast of a ship which has only one mast
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Rigging: general term for ropes, chains and gear supporting masts, yards, booms, and sails
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Wooden sailing schooners with two or more masts and 40- to 80-ton displacements (carrying capacities) built for fur companies appeared on the Great Lakes in the 1770s
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talking to me about the masts when we should be talking to
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together to find a way of using these masts
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” He shouted and presently, a tall sturdy man with a weathered face appeared on the forward part of the schooner between the four masts
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She should have been posed against a background of sea-clouds, painted masts and wheeling gulls
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I could hear men’s voices above and below me, the creaking of the ship’s timbers, the masts stretching as the canvas flapped in the wind
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I could see the masts of several just beyond the backside of the buildings
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Carrying a heavy head loaded with pain, frustration and bitterness, Travis walked through the hotel and out onto the promenade overlooking the harbour and the small boats, their masts bobbing from the slight chop in the water
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With sloping masts and dipping prow,
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They passed several obsolete Cloud Ships which were moored up alongside some of the abandoned wharfs, their masts and hulls battered from the many tens of thousands of nautical miles covered during their years in service
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“Ever lost both masts in a storm and had to jury-rig one out of a felled young hooktree?”
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wires, thrilling against their ships' metal masts, combined with the mournful
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They loved each other, there on her comfortable bed, bathed in sunlight, surrounded by the sounds of soft music and the tinkles of the halyards hitting the masts of the gently rocking yachts, moored in the bay outside
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Dad zoomed in on the boat, and we could make out the name (Miss Sheila) and he further zoomed in on an older man moving about between the ship's twin masts
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As soon as all of her bombs were released, Ingrid turned hard to the right but stayed low, performing a half turn and lining up on what she had assessed by studying her reconnaissance photos to be the base operations building, which was topped by a number of radio masts
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‘Goddess of the Sea’ had 4 masts, miles of white rigging and an overall length of 307 feet
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They seemed like foreigners to colonial life – the leering nigger, and the haggard gutter rat – standing like a couple of becalmed masts
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The sight of ships masts in the distance made her stomach leap and a lightness came over her
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He thought he could hear a ghostly roar as the amulet lit up and spread more beams of light to hit rubies that had been placed in the masts of the rest of the fleet
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The mast glowed and sent a signal to the masts of the other ships, which suddenly sprang their own cannon doors
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He heard the dropping of the square sails on the masts as he hastily travelled across the deck
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their masts, bobbing in the harbor
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The salty air rubbed raw against her face and the two masts
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sunken in the harbour, their broken masts peeking out of the
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Stability is given by the line of the horizon and waves in front, and the masts of the ships, the oars, and, in the original picture, a feeling of radiating lines from the rising sun
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There he saw three Greeks in kilts; the masts of ships; idle or busy people of the lower classes strolling or stepping out briskly, or falling into groups and gesticulating with their hands
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upon the masts and spars,
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Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the
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The round masts, the swinging motion of the hulls, the slender
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The thought of ships struck in the storm and put on their beam ends, and the cutting away of masts,
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The countless masts, the white shore-steamers, the lighters, the
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City of hurried and sparkling waters! city of spires and masts!
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And you must know besides, that the true knight-errant, though he may see ten giants, that not only touch the clouds with their heads but pierce them, and that go, each of them, on two tall towers by way of legs, and whose arms are like the masts of mighty ships, and each eye like a great mill-wheel, and glowing brighter than a glass furnace, must not on any account be dismayed by them
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"that they ought to have put up two Venetian masts with something rather severe and rich for ornaments; it would have been a very pretty effect
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lightweight, it is used in spars and masts in boats, and for
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Its masts trembled down to their blocks, and swirls of smoke could barely squeeze through the narrow funnels
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The stumps of three masts, chopped off two feet above the deck, indicated a flooding ship that had been forced to sacrifice its masting
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But this long, iron cylinder lying in the bay, with no masts or funnels—what were they to make of it? Nothing good, because at first they kept it at a respectful distance
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Those poor men leaped up into the shrouds, clung to the masts, writhed beneath the waters
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They were, says Mr Stephen, and the end was that the men of the island seeing no help was toward, as the ungrate women were all of one mind, made a wherry raft, loaded themselves and their bundles of chattels on shipboard, set all masts erect, manned the yards, sprang their luff, heaved to, spread three sheets in the wind, put her head between wind and water, weighed anchor, ported her helm, ran up the jolly Roger, gave three times three, let the bullgine run, pushed off in their bumboat and put to sea to recover the main of America
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In a creek lay a little sloop, with a narrow keel and high masts, bearing on its flag the Monte Cristo arms which were a mountain on a sea azure, with a cross gules on the shield
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Venetian masts, maypoles and festal arches spring up
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“Back then,” Volkheimer says, “all of Europe needed masts for their navies
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So the masts for the British and Spanish navies, the Portuguese too, would come from Prussia, from the woods where I grew up
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At Adolf-Hitler-Platz, concentric rings of tall masts flying Olympic flags surrounded a central tower, sixty-two feet high, draped with twenty swastika flags, forming a dramatic, blood-red cylinder in the middle of the grassy square
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The Osalk-Sherkal was virtually useless when it came to moving the quantities of timber, artillery, anchors, masts, and all the other paraphernalia which went into building ships of war
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(Masts and spars were especially problematic, given their length, but they were scarcely the only bottleneck
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The falling fore topmast had taken the fore topgallant and royal masts with it, and at least two hands had been missing and unaccounted for after the wreckage was cleared away
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Her fore topgallant mast had been shot away over an hour ago, taking the fore and main royal masts with it
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The glow reached upward, gilding her lower masts and rigging with a faint patina of gold, and he grunted in satisfaction
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Captain Fraidareck Chalkyr’s Challenger had lost her fore and main royal masts in a sudden squall three days after leaving Gorath
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And she would drag him up above the clouds, in the magnificent disorder of the grid, where she loved to make him giddy by running in front of him along the frail bridges, among the thousands of ropes fastened to the pulleys, the windlasses, the rollers, in the midst of a regular forest of yards and masts
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"I think," said Monsieur Lheureux to the chemist, who was passing to his place, "that they ought to have put up two Venetian masts with something rather severe and rich for ornaments; it would have been a very pretty effect
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If the pure and noble face of Eugenie went with him on his first voyage, like that image of the Virgin which Spanish mariners fastened to their masts, if he attributed his first success to the magic influence of the prayers and intercessions of his gentle love, later on women of other kinds, —blacks, mulattoes, whites, and Indian dancing-girls,—orgies and adventures in many lands,
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Whilst my Fever rose, I ranted, rav’d, and saw Visions of Fantastical Sailing Ships with royal purple Sails and golden Masts
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As we came closer and closer to the Great City of London, my Heart beat faster and faster; and, in truth, ’twas easy enough to tell we were approaching the Metropolis, for the Thames became a Sea of Masts, and the whole Surface of the River was cover’d with Barges, Wherries, Boats of divers Sizes, with grizzly old Tritons rowing, and shouts of “Next Oars!” and “Skullers!” echoing in our Ears, and such a Volley of Bad Language from the Boatmen that ’twas amazing my Ears did not turn red for Shame owing to the Indignities that enter’d there! Whoe’er would ride in a hir’d Barge had no Choyce but to submit to the Language of the Rogues who rul’d the River, and I o’erheard many Arguments about Rates betwixt the Watermen and their “Bargees”—and not once but sev’ral Times did my Ears hear a Waterman shout, “Ye niggardly Sons of Bitches!” as he attempted to o’erturn his Customers into the Water because they refus’d sufficiently to grease his Palm
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Ne’er had I seen such a Crowd of Masts, wobbling upon the Water like a curious Forest seen by a Fellow who has had one Pott of Ale too many
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But by far the most curious Sight my Eyes had e’er beheld was the Vision of a Cow, bellowing with grievous Indignation, as she was hoisted up by Means of Ropes about her Middle and Pulleys attach’d to one of the Masts, swung thro’ the Air, and lower’d into the Hold of a Ship
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Our Masts trembl’d and quiver’d like Reeds in the Wind; our Sails were ripp’d and torn; and our Tars ran to and fro not knowing what to do first
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And yet, tho’ the Decks were pounded and drown’d, we somehow did not crack, tho’ all around us, Ships were foundering, or cutting down their Masts, e’en before the Wind could do it for ’em
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The Tars fell to their leathery Knees to thank God; for the Masts still stood in good Repair and the Sails could be repair’d in Time
