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  • Our captain then our stuns'l set and shaped her for Quebec

    The Flemings of Torbay 1950

  • It'll be ` sharp's the word, boys, and look alive O! 'all through; ship the stones; off to the Rock; land 'em in hot haste; clap on the cement; down wi' the blocks; work like blazes -- or Irishmen, which is much the same thing; make all fast into the boats again; sailors shoutin '` Look alive, me hearties! squall bearin' down right abaft of the lee stuns'l gangway! '

    The Story of the Rock 1859

  • There's the two spare stuns'l booms — fish the main yard with those. "

    Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

  • And we'll have the stuns'l booms rigged out, if you please. "

    Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

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