"This was the first time I had taken a weather ear-ring, and I felt not a little proud to sit astride of the weather yard-arm, past the ear-ring, and sing out 'Haul out to leeward!'" ❋ Unknown (2010)
What's Obama supposed to say-hang him from the highest yard-arm? ❋ Unknown (2009)
And straightway they let down the sails and the yard-arm and stowed them inside the hollow mast-crutch, and at once they lowered the mast itself till it lay along; and quickly with oars they entered the mighty stream of the river; and round the prow the water surged as it gave them way. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Now when dawn the light-bringer was touching the edge of heaven, then at the coming of the swift west wind they went to their thwarts from the land; and gladly did they draw up the anchors from the deep and made the tackling ready in due order; and above spread the sail, stretching it taut with the sheets from the yard-arm. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He was hanged at the yard-arm the first thing in the morning, after having it impressively pointed out to him by Boldheart that this was what spiters came to. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Piles up the churned waters and tumbles them: never a yard-arm ❋ Unknown (2007)
Then out from the semi-darkness at the starboard yard-arm, there came a curse from Jaskett, followed almost immediately by a noise of something vibrating. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Out at the yard-arm there came a splutter of a match, and then, straightaway, a great spurt of fire as the flare took light. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Cuttwater, ‘What sort of a figure would you make on a yard-arm, reefing a sail in a gale of wind?’ ❋ Unknown (2004)
Speechless the Cimmerian looked on the Queen of the Black Coast as she hung from the yard-arm of her own galley. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2003)
May I some day see her dangling from the yard-arm! ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2003)
Securing this block, so that it hangs down from the yard-arm, he swings one end of the rope, till it is caught and firmly held by a hand on the deck. ❋ Unknown (2002)
The solidity of a mast or yard-arm bobbing free of the wreck, floating. ❋ Wiggs, Susan (1997)
Speechless, the Cimmerian looked on the Queen of the Black Coast as she hung from the yard-arm of her own galley. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (1989)
Oh, aye, I've been chased a score o 'times, and been yard-arm to yard-arm in running fights wi' Limey an 'Yankee patter-rollers, but no harm done. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1971)
oh my, that [sailor] has [a yard] arm as big as a [fence post].
yes, i'd like to post myself on that one. ❋ Deviant (2003)