The dashing of this spar about carried away the foretop-mast, and almost as a necessary consequence, the jib with the jib-boom went along with it.
Gradually Bax ceased to raise his encouraging voice--indeed the whistling wind would have rendered it inaudible--and the party on the cross-trees clung to their frail spar almost in despair.
I floated about on that--spar for four days and nights without a bit or drop of anything, and then my senses broke adrift, and I knew nothing more of what happened to me for some time.
But no, not a single floating plank or spar did they meet on the whole of this route, which is so much frequented at the conclusion of the fishing season.
If they have occasion to put about, the men all come in first, and then rig out the spar upon the opposite side, crawling out upon it again as before.
A new rudder, formed of a spar and a good-sized plank, has been fitted in the place of the one we lost, but with the wind in its present quarter it is in little requisition.
And then they set to work again to ransack every quarter of the raft; they rolled every spar aside, they overturned everything on board, and only grew more and more incensed with anger as their search proved fruitless.
I thanked him and said I did; but I was none the less surprised that any ship could carry such a mighty spar so high up.
A stout spar was rigged across the forecastle, protruding twenty-five feet on the starboard side, with a big block lashed to its end through which ran a five-inch rope.
The amount of work involved in getting the long, heavy spar into position, with all its jungle of standing rigging, which looks to the uninstructed eye a hopeless mass of entanglement, is enormous.
It was the only spar we lost during the whole of that voyage.
A sail-clad spar came flapping down athwart a blazing gun; We could not quench the rushing flames, and so the Frenchman won.
I wish I had brought an old ensign and a small spar along, to set up the gridiron, in honour of the States.
Daggett soon found that he could spare his consort a good deal of canvass, a consequence of his not being full, and he took in his topsail, though, running nearly before the wind, his spar would have stood even a more severe strain.
The main-mast was a good spar in some respects, but it wanted wood.
Her rigging had all been set up, every spar was in its place, and altogether she had a look of preparation and completeness.
Soon all three had gained the spar, and Captain Kennor, drawing a cord from his pocket, soon succeeded in lashing the Englishwoman so securely to the spar that she could not slip away and perish.
The pair just mentioned were seen walking on the spar deck forward.
Then, in a blessed instant, the beam struck almost blindingly across the spar and the four human beings held up by it.
Waiting only a minute or two longer, Dave, clinging to the spar with one arm, held the other hand as high aloft as he could.
The sight of the Dane ahead of them holding to the spar with one arm, and holding up the other hand, heartened them wonderfully.
Holding the spar with the searchlight beam, the destroyer changed its course, bearing down rapidly upon them.
Going at the same high rate of speed on the second night in the stream, the canoe struck a spar and went over it with a bound.
Whenever a vessel hove in sight after that having a broken spar or a torn sail, it was "a pampeiroed ship.
Gently push the boat forward by the projecting spar at the stern, and the little craft will sail along like a real ship on a real ocean; but you must be careful not to push too hard and capsize the vessel.
Slide the large end of the spar through the opening in the deck at E (Fig.
The earliest torpedo-boats were ordinary steamboats, such as are carried by most ships of any size, fitted with a long spar with a tin of gun-cotton at the end of it, which could be run out some way over the bows.
The rest of the spar deck and nearly the whole of the forward cabins were torn out bodily.
The tapering sparcame very near to them, perhaps twelve feet distant, and the wind would certainly carry the rope across the chasm if carefully thrown.
Its unexpected presence, wafted thus strangely from ocean wilds, the broken spar and tumbled canvas, betokened an accident, perchance a tragedy.
I was above it, looking over an undulating sea of cloud bank from which the tower rose, massive and mighty, apparently floating on end, like an immensespar buoy at the turn of the tide.
Still the Champion sailed on, not a mast nor a spar knocked away, though her canvas was riddled with shot.
I felt very wretched, like a drowning wretch without a spar or a plank of which I might catch hold.
Had a rope been rotten, had a spar given way, our fate might have been sealed.
Just as we had done so, the sparcame drifting up close to us.
A shift of wind, the least carelessness, the carrying away a spar or rope, might bring upon us the same fate which had destroyed the rover.
Scarcely had the determination I have mentioned been arrived at, when, as I was looking out ahead, I saw on the starboard-bow a sparfloating in the water.
When, therefore, he saw that the brig must inevitably strike the rocks, he seized a loose spar on the deck and sprang overboard, trusting that the current would carry him through the breakers into smooth water.
In the frigates and sloops steam was purely auxiliary; they had every spar and sail of the sailing ships to which they corresponded.
To start a brace with the men on the spar might cause a jerk that would spill from it some one whose both hands were in the work, contrary to the sound tradition, "One hand for yourself and one for the owners.
He floated off on a spar when the ship went down, and was picked up two days arterwards by a bark and taken to New Zealand.
Mightn't 'e have floated away on a spar or something and been picked up?
For three black days they fought the gale, Then one by one they wore-- And reft of spar and stripped of sail Went smashing on that shore.
With feverish haste we cleared the deck, Then fired the slowly sinking wreck, And cutting loose stood off astern, And watched her spar and topsides burn Till suddenly a blinding flash; A roar.
Calcium metasilicate, CaSiO3, occurs in nature as monoclinic crystals known as tabular spar or wollastonite; it may be prepared artificially from solutions of calcium chloride and sodium silicate.
Iceland-spar is extensively used in the construction of Nicol's prisms for polariscopes, polarizing microscopes and saccharimeters, and of dichroscopes for testing the pleochroism of gem-stones.
The mineral had, however, long been known under the names calcareous sparand calc-spar, and the beautifully transparent variety called Iceland-spar had been much studied.
This unfortunate confusion is somewhat lessened by the use of the terms zinc-spar and hemimorphite (q.
I chose a stout spar to serve as a mast for our boat, and having made a hole in a plank nailed across one of the tubs, we, with the help of a rope and a couple of blocks, stepped it and secured it with stays.
If we had had a spar knocked out of us it would have been all up, for they each carried something like forty guns.
Then with a quick run he seized the longspar near its outer end, and thus swinging it out until it struck the shrouds, he found himself dangling over the forward deck of the Monterey, upon which he quickly dropped.
Mr. Burdette had a complete crew of able seamen under his command; there was a cook in the kitchen, and stewards in the saloons, and there was a carpenter with some men at work at a spare spar which was to be rigged as a bowsprit.
They had to rig up the compass abaft the wheel, and do some other things that you wouldn't understand, madam, such as running a spar out to stern to take sight by.
So I cut down some trees and rigged a spar on the starboard and another on the port side, and fooled away upward of three hours trying to spar her off.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
