The ratlinesand standing rigging, the downhauls and halyards formed a ghostly tapestry, like the gossamer web of some forest glade.
He wound his fingers about the ratlines and breathed deeply.
He touched his sou'wester to the girl and mounted the weather mizzen-rigging, running up the ratlines as a fireman goes up a ladder.
But the surprise of those on board the other ships of war and the merchantmen was great when they saw the sailors swarming up the ratlines and running out on the yards.
On board every ship men were running up the ratlines to see if a view of the scene of action could be obtained from aloft.
Turnbull followed the example, and the men ran up the ratlines and furled some of the upper sails.
It was his first attempt, and as his feet began to make acquaintance with the ratlines he awoke for the first time to the fact that though they looked just like a ladder to climb it was a very different matter.
He helped them all up, and stood on the ratlines himself: and, if you will believe me, the poor goat wailed like a child below.
We accordingly shinned up the ratlines together, and were soon comfortably settled on the fore-topsail-yard.
If you go on as you have begun, Ralph, I predict that you will mount the ratlines rapidly.
They climbed ratlines like monkeys--little fellows of ten or twelve years--and laid out on the yardarms with the most perfect nonchalance, shouting and laughing at our awkward attempts to perform the same feats.
I shouted; but the old man was already shaking me on my perch, as he strided up the rigging, two ratlines at each step.
Luckily the dawn is just turning the sea grey and the ratlines begin to show up in relief.
The watch was grouped round the ratlines ready to go aloft, and Crean volunteered to go up alone and try and free the yard, but permission was refused.
Most of the men had gained the deck in safety, but many of those coming down by the ratlines were still some distance from the deck.
The rigging is also swifted down preparatory to replacing the ratlines truly horizontal after setting up.
Jacob's ladder, abaft top-gallant masts, where no ratlines are provided.
This done, and the dead-eyes and ratlines squared, the shroud and backstay mats are put on, and the masts and studding-sail booms carefully scraped.
Again, there was a vast difference between the ratlines of the cruiser and the slippery steel rungs of the monitor's tripod mast.
The only way of escape was through a small aperture on the floor leading to the uppermost ratlines of the shrouds--and the opening was sufficient only for one man at a time.
This soon gave them sore toes, and they would beg hard to have the ratlines replaced.
The ratlines were not seized to the forward and after shrouds, by means of eyes, as is done in our vessels, but were made fast by a round turn, and stopping back the ends.
Above, along the yardarm and up the ratlines swarmed his bowmen.
Ugly,' however, was so sluggish in his movements through the corvette rolling a bit and the ratlines being none too steady, that Lieutenant Robinson grew impatient.
Before you could say `Jack Robinson' I had quickly sprung into the lee rigging; and, clambering up the ratlines and then outward by the futtock shrouds, I gained the top long ere half the rest had started.
But stubbornly the figure of the young wireless boy crept upward, flattened out by the wind at times against the ratlines to which he clung, and again, taking every fighting chance he could seize, battling his way up slowly once more.
So far, he had climbed a good broad "ladder"--the ratlines stretched between the three stout steel shrouds.
The ratlines are the rope ladders you see in the picture.
Arthur has been on his father's yacht so much, for his father owns the Starlight, that he can run up and down the ratlines almost as fast as the sailors can.
The engineers are busy, overhauling and repairing damages to their engine and boilers; the gunner is at work, polishing up his battery and ventilating his magazine, and the sailors are busy renewing ratlines and tarring down their rigging.
I, if I am to save my brain I must put myself nearer to Imogene than this; so I dropped with a loud heart through the lubber's hole, and stepped down the ratlines as fast as my fears of the soundness of the seizings would suffer me to descend.
Rodd gave him a quick jerk of the head as he went on climbing the ratlines as quickly as he could, forgetting all about the heat and the silvery glare of the piercing sunshine.
Lad," said Ben to Ralph as the two slid down the ratlines when their task aloft was done, "I almost wish we were back among those bloody niggers ashore.
Lifting him to his feet, they bound him to the topmast ratlines so that his feet rested on the little platform.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ratlines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
