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Example sentences for "masting"

Lexicographically close words:
masticating; mastication; masticatory; mastiff; mastiffs; mastodon; mastodons; mastoid; mastoidal; mastres
  1. I saw a few that had sunk straight down, their masting still upright, their rigging stiffened by the water.

  2. Its masting was visible for an instant, but it couldn't have seen the Nautilus because we were lying too low in the water.

  3. The development of the masting industry proceeded very rapidly after the arrival of the Loyalists, but even before that date it had attained considerable proportions.

  4. Hazen and White there was, as we shall presently see, a lot of trouble arising out of the masting business in which both parties were actively engaged.

  5. The state of affairs on the River St. John in consequence of the rivalry created by the masting business was not at all harmonious.

  6. Some chocolate is wanted for our Masting Camp for at present we use Spruce Tea, which causes some murmuring.

  7. Nevertheless the masting operations were carried on after a primitive fashion, and Mr. Peabody was constantly obliged to write for articles needed by his workmen.

  8. Money too began to circulate more freely, owing to the development of the masting industry.

  9. The masting business was, however, carried on by Hazen, White and Peabody for several years longer.

  10. The masting business was a very important one in the early days of New Brunswick.

  11. The masting business seems to have been remunerative, and was the means of putting in circulation a considerable amount of specie, which was greatly appreciated by the settlers on the River St. John.

  12. When the masting of sailing ships was fully developed, the division was into lower or standing mast, topmast, topgallant mast, and topgallant royal.

  13. It so happened that a masting team of oxen was standing patiently outside awaiting the driver who was refreshing himself at the bar.

  14. A masting team consists of six to twelve strong, selected oxen, yoked two and two to a mighty chain with which they can drag forth the largest pines that are saved for masts.

  15. Well, do you remember licking a young fellow there for jerking the roof log out of the hotel with your masting team of oxen?

  16. Navy's mobile mooring mast, finds it highly useful, utilized masting equipment thereafter to compile an unusual record for regularity of departures, even under highly unfavorable weather conditions.

  17. More and more, however, the fleet grew independent of ground aid, became increasingly self-reliant through the use of its masting equipment.

  18. The ship, lifted by a formidable wave, had just stranded, and her masting had fallen without wounding anybody.

  19. Dick Sand was obliged to take some precautions so as not to risk the "Pilgrim's" masting and sails.

  20. Masting on this river must become a great industry.

  21. If things keep on improving, especially if the war ends, we shall be going into masting strong here next winter, and we'll be wanting a smart young fellow to look after accounts and act as clerk.

  22. We've almost all our plans made, too, for sending up the largest masting crew this fall we ever put in the woods.


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