His two classmates turned and were able to make out the mastheads of a craft in the distance.
I saw hermastheads above the ridge as the sun went down.
The great black mass brooding over our very mastheads began to pivot away from the ship's side silently.
He set sail and bore away into the west- north-west, two hunters constantly at the mastheads and sweeping the sea with glasses, himself pacing the deck like an angry lion.
The look-outs at the mastheads of the anchored fleet reported that the smoke of many steamers was rising above the horizon far away to the south-westward.
From the mastheads fluttered pennons thirty or forty feet long, and flagstaffs displayed not only the broad standard of the Lions and Castles of Spain, but also the banners of nobles and knights who were serving on board.
Jimmy pulled the whistle lanyard, and the man behind him hauled his wheel over a spoke or two; but the schooner came on heading almost for him, and rolling until her mastheads swung over the froth to weather.
She was rolling viciously across a waste of gray-blue sea which was flecked by livid froth, and her mastheadsswung in a wide sweep athwart a sky of curious dingy blue.
She was making eight knots, he fancied, with mastheads swaying athwart the stars, and a long smoke-trail that was a little more solid than the dusky blue transparency streaking the sea astern of her.
The Tyee's slanted mastheads seemed to rake through the latter, and she was wet everywhere; but she was still hammering to windward with bows that swung up streaming over the long seas.
You can detect their impatience by watching the sway of the mastheads against the motionless, the soulless gravity of mortar and stones.
They lie concealed in the intricate growth of houses with a few stalks of mastheads here and there overtopping the roof of some four-story warehouse.
I could make them out, pursed at the mastheads and hanging down as far as the cross-trees, like huge, over-ripe pears.
A boat-party sent aboard found the schooner in perfect order and condition, sailing under four lower sails, the topsails being pursed up to the mastheads but not stowed.
We were indeed exceedingly busy that day, Mr Austin having determined to take advantage of the opportunity which our being at anchor afforded him to lift the rigging off the mastheads and give it and them a thorough overhaul.
The first objects which caught my eye were the mastheads of the brig, broad on our starboard bow instead of directly ahead, as I had expected to find them.
As they came up the stream, the gunners in the forts could see the mastheads over the low willow thickets that bordered the banks of the stream.
She was a man-of-war brig, flying the British ensign from both mastheads and at the peak.
They are merged into a bewildering composition with only the mastheads and the flags flying at the trucks to guide the eye in attempting a count.
All types were represented in our assembly; we boasted a combination in dazzle paint to set us out, and our signal flags carried colour to the mastheads to complete the variegations of our camouflage.
Outside the glare of the steaming forecastle the serene purity of the night enveloped the seamen with its soothing breath, with its tepid breath flowing under the stars that hung countless above the mastheads in a thin cloud of luminous dust.
A ship whose mastheads protruded through the sky and could not be seen, was discharging grain, and the wind whirled the dry husks in spirals along the quay of a dock with no water in it.
Above the mastheads the resplendent curve of the Milky Way spanned the sky like a triumphal arch of eternal light, thrown over the dark pathway of the earth.
When they looked up, which it was not often advisable to do, they could see themastheads raking across a patch of hard deep blue, athwart which clouds with torn edges whirled.
I went with Helga on deck, and instantly saw the stars shining to windward betwixt the edges of clouds which were flying across our mastheads with the velocity of smoke.
At early dawn, till the evening threw its mantle over the ocean, we had volunteers at the mastheads looking out for a strange sail.
A bright look-out was now kept for the enemy, and from sunrise to its setting the mastheads were adorned with eager watchers, each wishing to be the first one to espy the Frenchmen.
Men were at the mastheads again, before daylight, on the 1st of January.
The sight of the Venetian flag, at the mastheads of the admiral's ship and the other galley, struck dismay into the Genoese.
He took the boy's arm in the grasp of a heavy hand and led him to the rail abreast the swinging mastheads of the boat.
Mousing together the two mastheadswith a bight of rope, we put on it a large whoop traveller, and to that fastened our stoutest and longest line.
The truck on my mastheads was just up to her deck.
I can see three mastheads showing above that hummock of rock at the entrance to the `Second Narrows'; and there is a column of smoke visible, too, so the craft must be a steamer.
There was consequently very little to do in the way of preparation; and a quarter of an hour after sighting the Peruvian's mastheads both Chilian ships were ready for the fray.
He had seen the two Chilians from his mastheads before they had seen him; and he had been watching them closely ever since; with the result that he had arrived at the conclusion that some trick was being played on him.
The topsails came to the mastheadswith "Cheerly, men!
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