As the sea swallowed the four-master — Blind Chance, it was called — like a hungry serpent, making a great slurping sound, she had spied the light. ❋ Wiggs, Susan (1997)
By Tuesday, company officials were preparing to call in the insurers, for it was likely the four-master had gone down. ❋ Wiggs, Susan (1997)
His background includes sailing on a four-master, working as a merchant mariner, training Outward Bound volunteers, travelling the world, and climbing its highest mountains. ❋ Unknown (1990)
He had been a cabin boy at fifteen on a four-master that had gone all the way to Shanghai, China, where the young man picked up a mysterious camphor-wood trunk. ❋ FRANKLIN W. DIXON (1984)
Kathina; French capture German four-master and Austrian steamer; account made public of sinking of Austrian battleship Zrinyi. ❋ Various (N/A)
And he had sailed many voyages under Tunis Latham's father, who had owned and commanded the four-master _Ada May_, which, ill-freighted and ill-fated at last, had struck and sunk on the outer Hebrides, carrying to the bottom most of the hands as well as the commander of the partially insured ship. ❋ James A. Cooper (1917)
There were twenty thousand tons not yet gone; but if my four four-master schooners could sail next morning, and the five-masters, _Orion_ and _Sirius_, get away the morning after, that twenty thousand tons would be cleaned up. ❋ Unknown (1912)
Once we saw a four-master; once a shy, silent steamer avoided us, westward bound; and once in mid-ocean, tossed on a sea sun-silvered under a rack of clouds, we overtook a gallant little schooner out of New Bedford or Gloucester -- a forthfarer, too. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)
After the wedding the folks was sitting under the palms and bushes that was growing in tubs all over the house, and the stewards -- there was enough of 'em to man a four-master -- was carting 'round punch and frozen victuals. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
As they walked back toward the station Ralph and Elsie lingered a little behind the others, and then stopped to watch a big four-master that, under full sail, was spinning along a mile or two from the beach. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
Dutch brig and an English bark, also an English four-master -- in none of these did we take special interest. ❋ Unknown (1900)
Rapidly the four-master gained favor, and then came the five - and six-masted vessels, gigantic ships of their kind. ❋ Ralph Delahaye Paine (1898)
And as a business venture, with somewhat of the tang of old-fashioned romance, the casual stranger is now and then tempted to purchase a sixty-fourth "piece" of a splendid Yankee four-master and keep in touch with its roving fortunes. ❋ Unknown (1898)
Rapidly the four-master gained favor, and then came the five-and six-masted vessels, gigantic ships of their kind. ❋ Unknown (1898)
Yankee four-master and keep in touch with its roving fortunes. ❋ Ralph Delahaye Paine (1898)
There was the _Rhondda_ that held the Cup for the year, having won when we were somewhere off the Horn; then the _Hedwig Rickmers_ -- a Bremen four-master -- which had not before competed, but whose green-painted gig was out for practice morning and night. ❋ Various (1897)
"Any ships astern," he meant, for his first glance was always to where the big green four-master might be expected to heave in sight. ❋ Various (1897)
Condy walked at her side in silence, yet no less happy than she, smoking his pipe and casting occasional glances at a great ship -- a four-master that was being towed out toward the Golden Gate. ❋ Frank Norris (1886)
A four-master was dropping quietly through the Golden Gate, swimming on that sheen of gold, a mere shadow, specked with lights red and green. ❋ Frank Norris (1886)
