Hi, you, Sylvanus there, give another haul on them halliards afore you're too mighty ready to belay, with your stupid cackle.
Oh, tell us," said all hands, with as much unanimity as if they were tailing on to the halliards under the stimulus of "Give us some time to blow the man down.
Then, each of us set about in his own fashion, without minding the other, to disentangle the fly of the pennant, which had been whipped by the wind round the halliards till it had formed itself into half a dozen granny's knots.
The halliards were swollen; he could scarcely keep his footing on the deluged deck that slanted steeply under him.
The order was given; the men sprang to the topgallant halliardsand sheets, cast them off, manned the clewlines and buntlines, and clewed up the topgallants.
Away up the rattlins we all climbed again; while those below, on the halliards being started by the run, began hauling on the clewlines and buntlines, bagging up the sail so that we could hand it easier.
Before he could tear the fabric away he heard two distinct splashes, followed by shouts of astonishment from the crew; for with one clean sweep with his knife Ross had severed the halliards of the ensign staff.
The topsail halliards were let go; but the nearly horizontal position of the masts prevented the sails from running down.
In the meantime officers had invested themselves in their full-dress uniforms with side arms, and an hour after the order had been first transmitted the signal to "Up Anchor" fluttered out from the halliards of the flagship.
At last he spied the expected flags fluttering up on the halliards and notified the ensign.
Captain, this man tells me," said the middy, "that the flag has been lowered and the halliards cut.
Quietly he drew the halliards and lowered the flag.
See the water foaming as the waves go by Like the tide on the sands of Dee; Hear the gale a-piping in the halliards high To the tune of the cold North Sea.
One of the halliards had been shot away aloft, and hung dangling across the yard.
Jackson, catching on to the same old sling he had rove out of the topsail halliards by which he had lowered himself from the bulwarks, and swinging himself out of danger.
Fresh halliards and running ropes were also rove, so that on an emergency, if the wind arose suddenly, we could have made sail on the one mast, and thus made a shift of battling with the elements.
I was about to stow the red ensign in its place when I bethought me that, day being so near, I might as well bend a flag upon the flagstaffhalliards and half-mast it.
I stared at it; but the halliards were in my hand, and before picking it up I must wait and make them fast on the cleat.
Mr Ferris, with a ball of rope yarn in his hand, fastened the dresses forthwith to the halliards by the skirts, allowing the full sleeves to blow out.
Here, under the direction of Mr Ferris, who had some nautical knowledge, it was stayed up by ropes to the corners of the house, halliards having previously been rove through the sheave at its summit.
It was so sudden that, although all halliards and sheets were let fly at once, not a yard would come down, the ship lying over at too great an angle.
Hardly an hour afterwards, in taking in the fore-topmast stun'sail, the halliards carried away.
Running aft, I was met by the second mate, who, handing me a coil of line, ordered me to go up and reeve the signal halliards in the mizzen truck.
The English boarded, their first endeavour being to cut away the rigging and halliards of the French ships, when the masts and sails went over the side.
In some mysterious fashion the mizen halliards had yielded and slipped for some distance after a sudden shock had cut the gaff halliards and let the jaws of the gaff free; so now the sail would neither haul up nor come down.
The gaff of the mizen had broken away, halliards and all, as if a supernatural knife had been drawn across by a strong hand.
Now tail on here to the halliards with me and let us set the sail.
The first shot went wide of the mark, and so did the second; but the third carried away her main halliards apparently, for the big sail came down all at once by the run, making the dhow broach-to as it fell over the side to leeward.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "halliards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
