One was a large ship under top-gallant sails, and the other a small hermaphrodite brig.
A cap-full of wind will be a bag-full here, and before night our royals were furled, and the ship was laboring hard under her top-gallant sails.
This is only in top-gallant sails, and is seldom used now.
A top-gallant gale, if a ship can carry her top-gallant sails.
I never found out what was the dodge that Tom, in his wisdom, was to have put me up to, for at that moment the captain came on deck, and gave orders to furl the top-gallant sails.
The corvette now hauled up her fore-course, and let her top-gallant sails settle on the caps, though a dead silence reigned in her.
At this time the top-gallant sails of the Foam might be discovered from the deck, resembling a boat clinging to the watery horizon.
The Young America, under topsails and top-gallant sails, was making about ten knots an hour.
The royals were first taken in, and then the top-gallant sails.
The wind is pretty fresh, Captain Carnes, but I think you may set the top-gallant sails.
I can only see her top-gallant sails, sir, but she is certainly a square-rigged ship bound south, and her sails have a foreign cut.
There is no longer any possibility of concealment, so hoist royals as well as top-gallant sails.
You can get up our top-gallant sails again,” the captain said.
When we were a short distance outside the Needles, a superb steam frigate passed us with topsails and top-gallant sails set, steering down channel.
If the world was not round, we should see them all at once, just as clearly as we now see the top-gallant sails.
She could have very well dispensed with the main-royal and two top-gallant sails, and in my opinion would have made the same way with a single reef in the topsails.
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