square-sail

The savvy reader will recognize a "Roman" version of a Polynesian ndrua. except with oarsmen and with a square-sail.

April 22nd, 2009 m_francis 2009

Now, gentlemen, in square-sail brigs and three-masted ships, well nigh as large and stout as any that ever sailed out of your old Callao to far Manilla; this Lakeman, in the land-locked heart of our America, had yet been nurtured by all those agrarian freebooting impressions popularly connected with the open ocean.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

By the gleams of light a native vessel, with a sole square-sail set, was imperfectly seen bearing down on our weather bow; and although the wind and sea combined with the darkness to render our annihilation seemingly inevitable, the crew of the approaching bark sang, in a long, slow measure, two or three

A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

We hoisted our square-sail and wet our other sails, but the schooner gained upon us rapidly.

Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale John Sherburne Sleeper

The mizen-mast, instead of a lower square-sail like the two others, has

The Illustrated London Reading Book Various

The more strenuously, however, we endeavoured to approach the vessel, the more she bore away; and, being a long way to the eastward of us, and going before the wind with her square-sail set, it was doubtful whether we should fetch her.

A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

I turned my eyes -- boats like those of fishermen, ships long and low, some like galleys, propelled by a hundred oars, others provided with one huge square-sail, which enabled them to run before the wind.

A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder James De Mille

She was, when at a distance, a baffling mass of canvas, from which a square-sail occasionally heliographed.

London River 1915

Lafitte soon ascertained the character of his pursuer, and, ordering the awnings to be furled, set his big square-sail and shot rapidly through the water.

Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure Charles Haven Ladd Johnston 1910

What astonished me was her main-sail and fore-mast square-sail -- set that calm morning; and her screws were still, for she moved not at all.

The Purple Cloud 1906