From this time until we got to Boston, the mate never suffered any one but our own gang to go upon the mizen topsail yard, either for reefing or furling, and the young English lad and myself generally took the earings between us.
Two hands sprang aloft; the frozen reef-points and earings were cast adrift, the halyards manned, and the sail gave out her increased canvas to the gale.
Hoist on the buntlines and haul out on the reef-tackles, bringing the sail to the yard, and then pass the head-earings and make fast the robands as for a course.
Make fast the head and reef-earings to their cringles, passing the end of each reef-earing through the cringle above its own and making it fast by a bowline to its own part.
A band of stout canvass sewed on the sail across, with points in it, and earings at each end for reefing.
Have the earingsbent and secured as before described, and the bights of the head-earings hitched to the buntlines.
Have one hand at each earing, cast off all the turns but enough to hold it, and when both earings are ready, ease off both together.
Ease the earings off together, and lower away by the buntlines and clew-garnets.
And here we had work to do; for our new sails had hardly been bent long enough to get the stiffness out of them, and the new earings and reef-points, stiffened with the sleet, knotted like pieces of iron wire.
From this time until we got to Boston the mate never suffered any one but our own gang to go upon the mizzen topsail yard, either for reefing or furling, and the young English lad and I generally took the earings between us.
Small plaited lines rove through the eyelet holes with a running eye, by which the head of a sail, after the earings are secured, is brought to the yard or jack-stay.
It is often practised to point the yards, the earings and robins let go, and the whole sail bunted in the top, and covered with tarpaulins.
Wooden wedges fixed on the yards at those points where they support the lifts and braces, and where the head-earings are secured.
The earings are hauled out, or lashed to cleats on the yards passing through the head corners or cringles of the sails.
Reef-tackles were ready to pullearings down, but the breeze veered to the east north-east and did not harden.
There was wind enough to warrant second earings being hardened down, all topmasts were housed, and with the tide flying to windward the ground was sidled over very fast.
Aunt Sarah had got her best earings and her dolman with beeds and Keene and Cele had on their bronze boots and there plad dresses and they got a seet on the platform.
Keene and Cele felt prety big becaus they was in the seminary and Aunt Sarah felt prety big becaus she had on her earings and her dolman and father felt prety big becaus i was going to get a prise.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "earings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
