Pantagruel, having first implored the help of the great and Almighty Deliverer, and prayed publicly with fervent devotion, by the pilot's advice held tightly the mast of the ship.
Mast and sail flew up in an instant together, and I saw them carried up to prodigious height, resembling in appearance a pterodactyle, one of those strong birds of the infant world.
On the mast already I see the light play of a lambent St. Elmo's fire; the outstretched sail catches not a breath of wind, and hangs like a sheet of lead.
A mast was made of two poles spliced together, a yard was made of a third, a blanket borrowed from our coverings made a tolerable sail.
Nail our flag to this piece of mastand sink the ship.
She has just hoisted a signal of distress half mast high.
With the large ones the carpenter contrived, in the course of a couple of days, to build a fresh mast to supply the place of the old one.
Then late in the day, to the dismay of all on board, the lee main topsail-sheet gave way, and the sail was flapping like thunder and lashing the mast and rigging most furiously.
The broken mast and yards, still held by the broken rigging, was lashing against the ship, threatening to break in her side and send all to the bottom.
The Antelope being unable at the time to open her lower-deck ports in consequence of the heavy sea, it took her two hours to capture the privateer, which even then would probably have got off, had not her mizen-mast been shot away.
Whether these vessels had more than onemast is uncertain.
Another shot of the same weight struck the main-mast of the Windsor Castle, and cut it more than three-quarters through.
The Arethusa's main-mast fell over the side, and she was otherwise so disabled that it was with the utmost difficulty she could clear the land.
At length the Guerrier's foremast and mizzen-mast were carried over the side, leaving a defenceless wreck, rolling her main-deck guns in the water.
The French frigate had already lost her fore and mizen-mast, and about three hours and a quarter after midnight, her main-mast fell over the side.
Laying down his staff which would have served for a mast to hold a vessel's sail, and taking his instrument, compacted of numerous pipes, he made the hills and the waters echo the music of his song.
Presently the mast is shattered by a stroke of lightning, the rudder broken, and the triumphant surge curling over looks down upon the wreck, then falls, and crushes it to fragments.
The ship was gone and the crowd was gone, And the deep shuddered and the moon shone: And in a straight grasp my arms did span The mainyard rent from the mast where it ran; And on it with me was another man.
The dripping sailor on the reeling mast Exults to bear, and scorns to wish it past.
He came running back, after a short look into the sea, to tell me that there was the truck of another great mast coming up there, a bit off the bow, to within a few feet of the surface of the sea.
In the meantime, you know, I had been staring like mad down through the water at the huge, shadowy mastjust below me.
Then he pulled the blue light from his pocket, and as he was doing so, I saw the Second peek round the back side of the mastat him.
Before the mast the news was hailed with delighted cheering.
He put the thickness of the mast between him and the hail of bullets and peered fearfully out at the terrible scene above.
One of the captive sailors from the Francis, fearing to be taken for a pirate if it came to deck-fighting, had crept up behind the mast and cut the flag halyards.
The Dominie silently took down the mast and let it rest in the bottom of the boat.
So on the south beach we found a man cleaning just such a boat as we needed, with a half-deck on her and a little mast which would go either up or down.
We had a making wind and the tide was with us, so that we had been able to set the sail part of the way--for a little mast which would carry a lug sail lay snugly under the thwarts of the boat.
It is a fine sing to have a luggar of tree mast like zis, and you sall bose make you fortune ven I have done.
But, as he desired to hear it and yet live, he bade the sailors bind him tightly to the mast with ropes, and they must not unbind him, however much he might implore them to set him free.
The giant had left his stick in the cave: it was as large as the mast of a great ship.
As he thought thus, the winds broke the mast of his raft, and the sail and yardarm fell into the sea, and the waves dragged him deep down.
The English main-mast rises to a height of two hundred and seventeen feet above the water-line.
By that utterance he nailed his colours to the mast with respect to the British evacuation of Malta.
Little damage was done, however, beyond a few holes through the top strakes and splinters from the mast and gunwales.
Gerald, you're fairly light; swarm up the mast and say if you can see anything of them.
Randall now hauled the dinghy up close enough to the mast for the two seamen to swing themselves into her.
Randall hove the line with good judgment, and one of the wrecked sailors catching it took a couple of turns around the mast with it.
The mainsail ought to have had the last reef taken in, for the mastbent like a whip, and the dinghy plunged heavily; but it was a time for driving, if ever there was one.
The first thing that the boy did was to put a centre-board in the craft, and to rig her with a stout mast and a mainsail, cat-boat fashion.
They had just discovered that two men had managed to clamber up on the foretop-mast stump as the schooner went down, and were now clinging there, waving their arms toward the boys.
I had lain on deck between themast and the bowsprit and a wave had burst over me and I had seen green water over my head.
A little later my sister and I sat at the table, very happy, drawing ships with their flags half-mast high.
When he had said this, he had mast and sail hoisted on the ship, and the wind filled the sail and the crew hauled taut the sheets on either side.
First they unfastened the sheets and let down the sail and lowered the mast by the forestays upon the mast-rest.
There is seldom any mast or tackle: nothing aloft but two tall black chimneys.
Still we swept onward like a phantom ship, and many an eager eye glanced up to where the Look-out on the mast kept watch for Holyhead.
