top-mast

Now when they had left the curving shore of the harbour through the cunning and counsel of prudent Tiphys son of Hagnias, who skilfully handled the well-polished helm that he might guide them steadfastly, then at length they set up the tall mast in the mast-box, and secured it with forestays, drawing them taut on each side, and from it they let down the sail when they had hauled it to the top-mast.

The Argonautica 2008

I craned round the after side of the top-mast, and looked.

The Ghost Pirates 2007

The captain, who happened to be a more trustworthy authority on the constancy of the tides than Sambo, knew that the hour was that of low water, and moreover, that a lugger which would show her top-mast from a depth of eighty-four feet was quite out of place in

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

Sambo mentioned casually that anybody might go to the wreck, for the top-mast at low water indicated it.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

At the spot the depth of water was 14 fathoms, and Sambo excused the non-appearance of the top-mast by saying that it was then high water.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

For my own part, worn out with the fatigue of the long watch in the top-mast, I slept for several hours; M. Letourneur and Andre did the same, and Miss Herbey obtained sufficient rest to relieve the tired expression that her countenance had lately been wearing.

The Survivors of the Chancellor 2003

A top-mast was hoisted, and another jib, held out to the wind, added its force to the other sails.

Around the World in 80 Days 2003

Sideways lashed in each of her three basketed tops were two barrels of sperm; above which, in her top-mast cross-trees, you saw slender breakers of the same precious fluid; and nailed to her main truck was a brazen lamp.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

The horns of the cross-trees were sawed off on the other side, so that this old top-mast looked not a little like a gallows.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

When the man from our top-mast strange colours did see.

Kelly the Pirate (Bold Princess Royal) 1999