Captain Sol said a bad word and took his glass and went up to the crosstrees himself.
And, in the middle of the forenoon of that day, the lookout in the crosstrees of the Industry reported a sail heading directly for them.
Flanking the sidewalks, symbolizing and completing the heterogeneous and bewildering effect of the street were long rows of heavy hemlock trunks, unpainted and stripped of bark, with crosstrees bearing webs of wires.
He was sure that Lieutenant Crosstrees would have pleasure in showing me my cabins, and that if there was anything on board which I did not feel to be comfortable, it should be at once altered.
So you have left Lieutenant Crosstrees in charge of your little toy," I whispered to Captain Battleax.
He's right, you know; those things do tell," Crosstrees had said to me when I had attempted to be jocose about these punctilios.
There was an honesty aboutCrosstrees which would never allow him to soften anything.
Lieutenant Crosstrees has sealed orders, and is practically acquainted with the mechanism of the gun.
I could not but think of the words which Lieutenant Crosstreeshad spoken to me.
Even Lieutenant Crosstrees would be seen no more after I had gone ashore.
Looking forward, I could see Eva kneeling at my feet, and could acknowledge the invincible strength of that weakness to which Crosstrees had alluded.
He was very particular about his clothes, and I was told by Lieutenant Crosstrees on the first day that he would resent it as a bitter offence had I come down to dinner without a white cravat.
Another Cuban trader," shouted Captain Beardsley, standing erect upon the crosstrees and shaking his eye-glass in the air.
At daylight on the morning of the third day out the thrilling cry from the crosstrees "sail ho!
A man in the crosstrees will make it out twenty miles away, and that will tell them where I am, and that I don't want them.
At night when she anchors she must have two head lights, one at the crosstrees and one at the topmast head.
I at once proceeded now to climb up to the crosstrees and over the head of the mast.
Their misfortunes had not ended, for on July 8 it was discovered that the fore-masthead was sprung, and the cap and crosstrees damaged.
Outer Dowsing, I established myself in thecrosstrees until we should succeed in making something.
Glue a strip of paper around the short tube, and stick it in one end of the spool, as shown at C, Fig.
After constructing the horses, cut four boards seven feet long and nail two to the ends of each (A and B, Fig.
I know Camp Crosstrees will seem deserted and desolate without these two little rays of sunshine.
You have all heard that old Captain Kidd buried a lot of treasure somewhere, but I doubt if you were aware that he buried it inCrosstrees Camp.
Mr. Rose was in the midst of a funny story at which Dolly was shaking with laughter as they reached the pier which belonged to Crosstrees camp.
You see, Dolly Fayre, the curtain doesn't really rise on the glories of Camp Crosstrees until to-morrow.
Now when you get to Crosstrees you'll be so delighted and interested, that you won't think of home and Mother for two weeks, except to write a postcard now and then.
Crosstrees was just right in every way for mountain and camp doings.
And so the first of August, Mr. and Mrs. Rose and their two daughters with Dolly as the guest started for the Crosstrees Camp.
The boys had been gone for hours when the girls started, and in their fresh linen dresses and bright hair-ribbons they were a jolly looking crowd who filled the two motor boats as they left the Crosstrees pier.
We were at Crosstrees before you girls left, but Mrs. Rose kept us hidden and after you were gone, she togged us up in sheets, and here we are.
Seven bells had just sounded in the middle watch, and both Jamie and Jack were on duty, perched on the crosstrees in the foretop.
Mr Smellie, our second lieutenant, at once went aloft to the foretopmast crosstrees to have a look at it through his telescope.
At the same time Mr Armitage, our third lieutenant, proceeded aloft to the main topmast crosstrees with his telescope to maintain a vigilant watch upon the motions of the approaching vessel.
I did not "explain away" the ghost in the crosstrees either to Ally Bazan or to the other two Black Crows.
It was precisely as it had appeared on the crosstrees of the Idaho, only, seen without perspective, and brought down to the level of the eye, it lost its exaggerated height.
I hoisted myself up to the crosstrees of the mizzen sail.
Its mastheads appeared, laden with victims, then its crosstrees bending under clusters of men, finally the peak of its mainmast.
Voluntary watches from the crosstrees of the topgallant sail were self-imposed by more than one who would have cursed such toil under any other circumstances.
The crosstrees are fitted with outriggers pointing outward aft to enable the topgallant-backstays to give a better support to the topgallantmast than they otherwise would do.
Crowding to the glazed window we saw a dozen scarecrows tossing from the crosstrees of Groseillers's ship.
The spars were solid with frozen sleet from the crosstrees to the crow's nest.
He sat on the crosstrees beside the lookout for an hour without saying a word.
I was in the mizzen crosstrees with the skipper, the second mate, the helmsman, and a couple of Sou'wegians who had been working aft.
The other fellows climbed to the topmast-crosstrees and looked down; but the snakes stopped at the eyes of the rigging, or the tops, and rested.
Approaching the lee side of the biggest of the three islands, one hand was sent aloft into the fore topmast crosstrees to keep a sharp lookout for submerged rocks, while another was sent into the fore chains with the hand lead.
Then, finding that the ship still continued to behave satisfactorily under her lashed helm, I got the telescope and went up into the main topmast crosstrees to take a last look at the island, by that time about ten miles distant.
I told myself that I would not worry about the difficulties and dangers ahead, but would stand up there in the crosstrees and deal with them, one at a time, as we came to them.
Then, turning myself about with my face toward the stern of the ship, I seated myself comfortably in the crosstrees and, once more bringing the telescope into action, proceeded again to subject the island to a searching scrutiny.
Mr. Grafton, soon after we left the ship, feeling uneasy, went aloft into the topmast crosstrees to make observations.
Look at the men old Worth has got aloft there, hiscrosstrees swarming, and every rattlin manned.
Then we raced, and wildly, across the wild sea, the while I hung like a fly in the crosstrees and searched for the other boats.
Steering I picked up easily, but running aloft to the crosstrees and swinging my whole weight by my arms when I left the ratlines and climbed still higher, was more difficult.
In a few seconds more I was standing on the crosstrees and examining the line of surf ahead for the narrow strip of unbroken water which would indicate the existence of a passage through the reef.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crosstrees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
