"Never were there more dainty and lovable topmasts on a three-masted schooner, and never was there a three - masted schooner that worked like the witch she was to windward." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Topsails would be a nuisance and a danger for a crew of two, so I heaved the topmasts on deck and lashed them fast. ❋ Unknown (2010)
There were vast, bulging sprawls of canvas on the foremast and mainmast, smaller spreads on the topmasts, three triangular sails stretched toward the repaired bowsprit, and more sails improvised in places Hap had never seen them before. ❋ P. W. Catanese (2011)
Daughtry and the captain emerged last from the cabin, and both stared upward for a moment at the gaps in the slender, sky - scraping top-hamper, where, only minutes before, the main - and mizzen-topmasts had been. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Next day, the mast-steps clear and everything in readiness, we started to get the two topmasts aboard. ❋ Unknown (2010)
True, the wind itself tore our canvas out of the gaskets, jerked out our topmasts, and made a raffle of our running gear, but still we would have come through nicely had we not been square in front of the advancing storm center. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The staffs themselves were like ships 'masts, with topmasts spliced on in true nautical fashion, with shrouds, ratlines, gaffs, and flag-halyards. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Lashing the two topmasts together, and making allowance for their unequal length, at the point of intersection I attached the double block of the main throat-halyards. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In half a day I got the two topmasts aboard and the shears rigged and guyed as before. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Another day of heart-breaking and dangerous toil saw us in camp with the two topmasts to the good. ❋ Unknown (2010)
True, the wind itself tore our canvas out of the gaskets, jerked out our topmasts, and made a raffle of our running gear; but still we would have come through nicely had we not been square in front of the advancing storm-center. ❋ Unknown (2010)
From the raised piazza flanking the house, Mary and Robert Morris could gaze over the spires of the churches in town and the topmasts of the ships docked along the Delaware, all to the serenade of rustling leaves and the sonorous hum of cicadas. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)
The French fleet returned on Thursday, August 20, but it was obvious "they were in shattered condition, had lost their topmasts, and had one ship less than when they went out." ❋ Maggiemac (2009)
The big foremasts and mainmasts were surmounted by topmasts and sometimes topgallant masts. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)
Chimney, white with crusted salt; topmasts struck; storm-sails set; rigging all knotted, tangled, wet, and drooping: a gloomier picture it would be hard to look upon. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The riggers from Erebus and Terror who had conceived and executed this seven-chamber maze obviously had also exorcised some of the incredible frustration at not being able to pursue their trade due to being icebound and static for so many months, their ships 'topmasts, spars, and rigging pulled down and stored on the ice. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2007)
