And thro' the long green nights the spanglingspars Twinkle like milky stars.
The mere brief gusts are wrinkling; A thousand ripples twinkling Have caught the stars on polished spars Their rustling ridges sprinkling: And all the shadow lurking in its bosom Is touched and bursten into golden blossom.
Until she could have thawed the spars Of her clear-fountained eyes to tears, And gush wild grief long-seared by wars Of passionate anguish and great fears: "Oh Tristram gone!
I’m sure there’s lumber andspars enough here, and vessels come here to load.
The sparswere white, the blades of the oars green, the rest white.
Little Bob Smullen also saw Charlie hauling down the spars with Isaac’s oxen, and when he asked Charlie what they were for, he told him, “To make little boys ask questions.
As soon as the spars and sails were made, Charlie and the whole family, except Sally Merrithew and the baby, went over to meeting.
There are no masts or spars on it of any great amount.
I ain’t much of a shipwright, though I have worked some in the yard, and made a good many spars for small vessels; but he is, and has worked in Portsmouth on mast ships.
The boys put the pieces of the boat and the spars in the sugar camp, and then Henry and Fred returned.
At length the shattered spars having been cleared away, head sail was got on the ship, and off she ran before the hurricane, the master having ascertained that we had a clear sea before us.
Fortunately there was a good supply of spars on board, and I hoped, should the weather continue moderate, to be able to rig jury-masts the following day.
For a few seconds he was drawn under the water, but returning to the surface again, he found close to him several spars that had been lashed together, but, as it appeared, not secured to the deck of the vessel.
He was now able to lash several spars to the timber, while another formed a mast, and a second, which he and Bramston cut through with their knives, supplied them with paddles and a yard.
Across this we lashed other spars and planks, but it was a very slow business, for some of the men could only use one hand.
Blocks and spars came rattling down on deck to the no small risk of those below.
While we were looking out for the spars and pieces of timber to form our raft, a round object appeared at a little distance.
Every instant we thought would be our last, for we knew that the spars to which we were clinging might be torn from the frame-work, and we might be deprived of our last remaining support.
The rope served as for lashing the spars which we had collected together.
The blue water surged and spouted from the shot holes as the great hull loomed heavily from side to side, and broken spars and ropes still hung over the side as she went, a perfect picture of defeat.
Other vessels, not so well provided with spars as to entitle them to share in the accommodation of these stages, adopted a kind of flying railway, such as is used on the rocky coast of the Cape Verdes for the shipment of salt.
Let us suppose, for instance, the case of a stranded or waterlogged brig of about 200 tons, of which the lower masts and the wreck of some of the other spars are still available.
Smaller sparswere set up as shears, and by these the large one was erected, and stayed in a perpendicular position as a derrick.
The boat, however leaky or battered, would always be a place of security and comparative comfort for the ladies or children, as the power of floatation would be in the spars and casks.
Signals by day or night might be sent up with great facility by hitching the halyard block upon any part of the kite line, when the flags or lanterns might be sent far above any spars or sails that could obstruct the view of them.
A topmast, with its heel upwards, may be passed down through it, and such additional spars or planking bolted on as will give the needful increase of breadth.
We would say, if there be two or more sparsof equal size, let the interval between them be at least three times as broad as their diameter, and generally let the width of your raft be not more than one-sixth of its length.
Let the ends of the spars that form your floats be pointed to an acute angle by either sawing off wedge-shaped pieces of about 15 deg.
The succession of these mishaps points rather to spars badly secured and cared for than to unavoidable accident.
They had saved more than these; but had made use of the smaller spars to shore up the superstructure, sawing them into lengths for that purpose.
Apart from such spars as they had managed to secure, they had a spare topmast lashed along under the larboard bulwarks, and a spare t'gallant and royal mast lying along the starboard side.
A few charred planks and spars were floating near us, showing that we had kept one position during the night; but we could see no boat or raft.
A couple of hatchets had been discovered, and with these they cut away all the planking most easily got at, and lashed it to a few spars remaining on deck.
The stump of the foremast remained, and to it we lashed some spars we found on deck, and with a quantity of matting we discovered below, we manufactured a sail, which we managed to set.
With some spars washed on shore I made the flag-staff you saw; but I could take no other measures, for I had no tools to construct a boat or even a raft.
There is no creak of spars or whine of cordage, no spray at the bow, no ripple at the stern--no voice, and no figure to utter one.
A ship, cased in tons of ice, was forging up the harbor, her decks swarming with blue jackets, some of whom were beating off the frozen masses from lower spars and rigging.
I can assure you that yonder tall ship, although her spars and rigging are somewhat shattered by the fight, is the royal cruiser.
And now the guns on both sides sent forth their missiles of death,--round shot and chain shot, the latter cutting to pieces the rigging and spars of their antagonists.
Skirting the ice-foot of the northeastern coast of Banks Land, his heart came into his mouth as, rounding a cape, he saw the dark spars of an ice-beset ship loom up against the sullen southern sky.
The ship's sparswere laid crossways for the main rafters, and other wood was used for the completion of the roof-frame, over which were stretched reed mattings and sail-cloth.
Carrying some long spars and several coils of rope, they hurried after Toby to the end of the reef.
They returned it with interest, though, and we lost many men from the shot of their long guns, while most of our masts and spars were likewise wounded.
Spars were towed astern, and every means resorted to, to check her way.
The whole of the beach was strewed with the fragments of the vessel, with spars and water-casks; and at every moment was to be observed the corpse of a negro turning round and round in the froth of the wave, and then disappearing.
Her engines were small, being no doubt reduced in weight to make her carrying capacity equal to passing over the shoal places she would find before her, her spars were ready for use, and she had no roof over her main-deck.
At last, after innumerable discouragements, during which her spars had been used until they were all mud, and it seemed impossible for her to proceed a foot farther, the Ivanhoe whistled for Fort Hamilton.
Does he not say he will not strike his spars to any gale?
Next day, a large ship, the Rachel, was descried, bearing directly down upon the Pequod, all her spars thickly clustering with men.
All down her sides, this spectral appearance was traced with long channels of reddened rust, while all her spars and her rigging were like the thick branches of trees furred over with hoar-frost.
The Algerines, knowing that if their spars were shot away they would all be killed, ran her ashore near the southern cape of Zante.
The water is deeper here than it is in the bay, and she would get nearer ashore before she struck, and we might save a few of them if they lashed themselves to spars and her coops and such like.
I have seenspars carried away afore now, from young commanders cracking on sail on craft they knew nothing about.
The riggers and painters had finished their work, the decks had been planed and holy-stoned until they were spotlessly white, and the tall spars and gear were all in their place.
I thought that long low hull and those lofty spars were never put together for an honest purpose.
We will leave it and the spars here; do you lend him a hand, Jack Thompson.
However, with a couple of stout spars put up a foot apart with ropes between them a foot from each other so as to make ratlings, we could get up, though it wouldn't be a very easy job passing women down.
Passengers left the rail, dived indoors, and took refuge on the opposite side, where falling blocks and smallspars might not reach them.
Now that allspars were gone, it was no easy job to get her launched.
A while he gazed at the scroll of the morning bank and the spars and hanging canvas of the brig, like a man who wakes in a strange bed, with a child's simplicity of wonder.
A strange ship they had made of it, her lofty spars disfigured with patched canvas, her panelled cabin fitted for a traderoom with rude shelves.
The horizon proved to be clear in every direction save to the southward, in which quarter the upper spars of the steamer they had so lately encountered were still visible.
The Flying Fish, having neither sails norspars exposed to the blast, received this second stroke of the gale with impunity; but with the devoted barque it was, alas, very different.
It was not broad enough for us to stand on without fear of falling off, so we sat astride on it while we chopped a hole deep enough to fix one of the spars in, which we had hauled up for the purpose.
The snow was scraped away from the interior; and such spars and planks as we could get out of the boat were spread at the bottom, with a sail over them, to form our bed.
A triangle of spars is formed, with a block in the centre, through which a rope, attached to the upper part of the saw, is rove.
We got two spars from the lower yards of the ship which served for masts, and set them up with shrouds, though, as most of the rigging of the ship was rotten, we had some difficulty in finding a sufficient quantity.
Our yards and gaffs were somewhat heavy, as we had no proper-sized spars to make them from.
A loud shout of exultation from our pirate crew showed their satisfaction at the damage they had done; for several spars and sails, with blocks and ropes, were seen coming down by the run on deck.
There was a pause, and then a loud, fearful explosion, and the masts and spars and fragments of the pirate schooner could be seen rising in the air.
The taller masts andspars followed, dragged down by the sinking hull; and in another instant, as we gazed where our ship had just been, a black obscurity was alone before us.
The spars had all stood, and Raoul no longer hesitated about trusting his wounded mainmast with a new yard and sail.
By means of the lofty spars of the ship, and the aid of glasses, the whole coast had been effectually surveyed, and no signs of such a craft were visible.
The hold of le Feu-Follet was literally empty, and all her spare spars were floating among the rocks.
That's a long bit of water, sir; and it would take a heavy ship's spars to rise high enough for such a sight.
Nothing was taken in, therefore, to secure spars and sails, but all was left to stand, trusting to the lightness of the breeze, which usually commenced very moderately.
Her canvas fluttered, but it held on, and even the spars kept their places, though so much injured.
The English seamen collected some fuel from the spare spars of the lugger, and lighted a fire on the rock where they had been found.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
