Should the keen glance mark indignation's eye, Struck to the deck, the prostrate victims lie: Or to the shrouds ingloriously bound, They feel the lash in many a smarting wound.
He was in a fever of impatience until at length, the tangled shrouds having been cut away, the rowing was resumed and the two vessels began again to creep slowly seaward.
The officer at once mounted the shrouds and took a long look at the specks Desmond pointed out, while the crew below crowded to the bulwarks and eagerly strained their eyes in the same direction.
Springing up the shrouds on the weather side, Desmond was quickest aloft.
With something approaching almost to a laugh, the seaman got on the ladder as smartly as he would have taken to the shrouds of a ship, and Tommy followed.
He obeyed and passed a lead line to one of the forward shrouds and then drew it around the Admiral to the after shroud and made it fast.
The Serapis made another effort to get into position to rake the American, but in the blinding smoke she ran her jibboom afoul of the starboard mizzen shrouds of the Bonhomme Richard.
Soon all have left, and the silence of the abandoned sanctuary shrouds the fabric in greater solemnity.
Let us raise the veil of deception that shrouds the emptiness of human joy.
Spaniards, are still left in the rigging; they seem almost dead, and scarcely able to unlash themselves, and crawl down the shrouds and await the return of the boat.
All hands now took refuge in the fore-rigging; nineteen men had then no other hope between them and a terrible death than the few shroudsof the shaking mast.
And resting in this hope they waited hour after hour, clinging to the shrouds of the tottering mast; but no help came, until one and all despaired of life.
One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.
Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
Headlong from thence the glowing Fury springs, And o'er the Theban palace spreads her wings, 170 Once more invades the guilty dome, and shrouds Its bright pavilions in a veil of clouds.
For the solidarity of the Church is the one striking fact unmistakably revealed to us, as here and there the veil which shrouds the history of the second century is lifted.
The veil which nowshrouds your higher life from others, and even partly from yourselves, will then be withdrawn.
But is there any reason to think that with our present limited capacities the veil which shrouds it ever will be or can be removed?
But all was ready on the raft; an erection had been made on the fore to hold a mast, which was supported by shrouds fastened to the sides of the platform; this mast carried a large royal.
The shrouds were broken, but happily the mast, already bending almost double, was removed by the men from its socket before it should be snapped short off.
As the sea closed over the body I heard one of the men in the shrouds say,-- "There goes a carcass that we shall be sorry we have thrown away!
The squally gusts make the metal shrouds vibrate like harp-strings; and unless we were on our guard to keep our clothes wrapped tightly to us, they would have been torn off our backs in shreds.
All hands clutch the stanchions or shrouds in anticipation of the shock.
She looked to be made of shells and moss; her shrouds and masts were incrusted as thickly as her hull.
The shrouds and tops and decks being full of men, several of their hats flew overboard and were lost.
The shrouds were now iced over, the sleet having formed a crust or cake round all the standing rigging, and on the weather side of the masts and yards.
Who the devil ever saw a ship's shrouds that wasn't cat-harpened in!
Should the French commence the sport, we shall have the advantage of being to windward; and the loss of a few weather shrouds might bring down the best mast in their fleet.
Her foremast snapped short off, and the men who clung to the shrouds were brushed away like a swarm of flies.
Clinging to the weather shrouds I could distinctly see some ten or twelve frightened seamen, who, when their light revealed my presence, turned their white faces towards me and waved their hands imploringly.
The shrouds rise from the chains, which are a series of blocks called "dead eyes," fixed to the sides of the ship.
To these the shrouds are fixed, and also to the masts near the tops; they serve the purpose of preventing the masts from falling sideways.
The strain on it and the weather shrouds must have been enormous.
Replied the Priest, "There shroudsherself the still Divinity.
In the dark mystery that shrouds her fate-- In the dread agony of this suspense, Where I can grasp at naught of certainty-- One single ray of comfort beams upon me.
In those good old days, our fathers, for the sake of relaxation, talked about death and graves and epitaphs and worms and shrouds and dust and hell.
The eye of the pair of shrouds that goes on first should be once and a quarter the circumference of the mast-head; and make each of the others in succession the breadth of a seizing larger than the one below it.
Each pair of shrouds should be served below the futtock staves.
The dead-eyes of the topmast rigging are fitted to their upper ends, and the futtock-shrouds to their lower ends.
Get it on a stretch, and divide each pair of shrouds into thirds, and mark the centre of the middle third.
To bring two shroudsor stays close together by ropes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrouds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
