Topsails

Pamperos happen quickly here, and though the Elsinore, under bare poles to her upper-topsails, is prepared for anything, it may well be that they will be crowding on canvas in another hour. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Far, far beyond the topsails was a faint blue line on the horizon, the bold coast of Southern Portugal. ❋ Forester, C. S. (1962)

The topsails were the chief battle sails, because the largest, except the courses, and more manageable than the courses. ❋ Unknown (1877)

"That ship," said a quartermaster with a big red face -- "that ship will have to depend more on her masts than her engine, and the topsails are the biggest because the others will be often useless. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)

"topsails" is shown by the fact that the "top-saile halliards" were pitched over board with John Howland, and saved his life. ❋ Azel Ames (1876)

Working with mad haste, they flung out topsails, flying jibs and stay-sails. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There was no pulling and hauling on sheets and tackles, no shifting of topsails, no work at all for the sailors to do except to steer. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Get in the topsails and jibs and make a good job of it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At noon we picked up a ship ahead, a lime-juicer, travelling in the same direction, under lower-topsails and one upper-topsail. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Better set the upper and lower topsails so that we can handle the ship," I called to the gangster, who was ordering the men about, quite like a mate, from the top of the 'midship-house. ❋ Unknown (2010)

September, when I had just sketched most ambitious plans to raise my pyramid to sixty feet above the summit of the island, I awoke one morning to stare out upon a ship with topsails aback and nearly within hail. ❋ Unknown (2010)

How they regained the deck I do not know, I never saw; for the Elsinore, under only upper - and lower-topsails, lay down on her side, her port-rail buried in the sea, and did not rise. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“Better get in those topsails, Mr. Van Weyden,” Wolf ❋ Unknown (2010)

The topsails were soon clewed up and made fast, then the flying jib run down and furled. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And we were near him, on the poop, when he drove by an east-bound lime-juicer, hove-to under upper-topsails. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They put storm gaskets on the furled topsails, lowered and stowed the foresail and spanker and took in the two inner jibs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The only sail she carried was three upper-topsails. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nothing was set but the lower topsails and the foresail. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Man, I gave that bitch a [classic] [Topsail Steamer] last night....a real [mud river] ❋ TheRealDonJ (2018)

[Topsail island] is the best [beach] you will ever [go to]. ❋ Thatbitch25 (2018)