At this moment, the conversation between the two was again interrupted by Bill the boatswain starting up from the hawser on which he was sitting alongside of Jem Backstay on the topgallant forecastle.
At this moment, Snowball dropped from the forecastle of the Hankow Lin into the bows of the schooner, followed by Jem Backstay and half-a-dozen others.
Then I heard a sound, and lifting heavy head, beheld one who stood upon the bulwark above me, holding on by a backstay with one hand and pistol levelled down at me in the other.
I was roused by a kick to find the ship rolling prodigiously, the air full of spray and a piping wind, and Captain Belvedere scowling down on me, supporting himself by grasping a backstay in one hand and flourishing a case-bottle in the other.
There was rigging below him--the lee royal-backstay stretched farthest out from the mast, and if he brushed it, there was a possible chance.
It did no good; the backstay was now farther away.
Cap'n, clutching the backstay and leaning into the night.
He kept his clutch on the backstay with the dizzy notion that this saved him from clutching some one's throat.
Grasping this in his teeth, he slid down the pole, caught the skys'l backstay and swung down to the spreader of the cross-trees.
McKenzie took the short cut to the deck by sliding down the royal backstay and when he stepped on the poop, he whipped off his cap and bowed to Ruth and extended a tarry hand to Walter with a "Hullo, Moodey, how are you?
The royal breast-backstay may be used as the fall of the purchase.
Have the fly-block of the topsail halyards above the top, and rack the runner to the topmast backstay or after shroud.
Then without more ado the splendid human animal clutched a backstay and swarmed aloft with the agility of an ape, showing not a whit of strain after his battle with the roaring seas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "backstay" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
