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That portion which spanned from the mizzen-mast to the 'midship-house was missing, while the starboard boat on the' midship-house was a splintered mess.
CHAPTER XXX 2010
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I had gone for'ard along the bridge to the mizzen-mast, in the shadow of which I was leaning.
CHAPTER XXII 2010
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In the next roll of the huge, glassy sea, the mizzen-mast fell overside.
CHAPTER XV 2010
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Then all the main deck between the poop and the mizzen-mast will be flooded with light, while we shall be in comparative darkness.
CHAPTER XLIV 2010
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He went over the bridge-rail side-wise, caught the running gear up-and-down the mizzen-mast, and landed lightly on his feet on top of Number Three hatch.
CHAPTER XLII 2010
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Above this flood, or knee-deep in it, Mr. Pike and half-a-dozen sailors were bunched on the fife-rail of the mizzen-mast.
CHAPTER XXX 2010
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Abruptly, from the mizzen-mast, came a snap of breakage and crash of fabric.
CHAPTER XX 2010
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Placed at a gun on the upper deck, on the starboard side near the mizzen-mast, he fought like a Briton, though dazed at first by the roar, and the smoke, and the crash of timber.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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The Union Jack was flying at the mizzen-mast, and a blue standard bearing the initials E. G., embroidered in gold, and surmounted by a ducal coronet, floated from the topgallant head of the main-mast.
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A shot gouged a furrow through the Pucelle's forecastle deck, another struck the mizzen-mast, shaking it, a third hammered the length of the weather deck, piercing bows and stern and miraculously touching nothing in the flight between.
Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000
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