I have already mentioned that the Golden Bough had a topgallant forecastle; that is, the crew's quarters were away forward, in the bows of the ship, beneath the forecastle head.
The Golden Bough had a topgallant foc'sle, the port and starboard sides divided by a partition that reached not quite to the deck above, and which contained a connecting door.
I saw a little crowd of men spring up the ladder leading to the topgallant forecastle, rush to the rail, and peer eagerly down into the black water.
He wheeled about, and, running forward to the break of the poop, gave orders to let fly the royal and topgallanthalyards and sheets and to back the mainyard, also instructing the carpenter to sound the pump well.
As we drew near the topgallant poop there sounded in my ears a noise like a tempest, which I soon became aware was a man swearing with a prodigious vehemence in a fog-horn of a voice.
They be firing guns to windward, an' letting fly their topgallant sheets.
Defn: A kind of ketch very common in the Levant, which has neither topgallant sail nor mizzen topsail.
A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree.
They immediately set to work, however, and, by using their knives, succeeded in dragging up a topsail and topgallant sail.
The stranger's royals had first been seen, then her topgallant sails, and now the heads of her topsails appeared above the horizon.
The crew who were on deck flew aloft; the watch below came tumbling up and hastened to join the rest, some laying out on the fore and main-topsail yards, while others handed the royals and topgallant sails.
It was night, and the ship was running along with a pretty stiff breeze and a moderate sea under whole topsails and topgallant sails.
On to the topgallant forecastle Matt Peasley leaped, praising his Maker for patent anchors on the Retriever.
At length, after much labour, we got up a spare topgallant mast, and set a topgallant sail on it, and all present danger was over.
I called Captain Derick on deck, and the hands were sent aloft to lower topgallant yards and to furl every sail, except the fore-topsail, which was closely reefed.
After taking everything out of the brig, we scuttled her, nor did we leave her till we saw the waves close over her topgallant masts.
The corvette must have observed her change of course, as she also kept away, and once more her topgallant sails were loosed.
The corvette had handed her royals, presently she took in her topgallant sails.
Another minute, and he was on the topgallant yard, alongside the other man, peering ahead into the fast gathering dusk, under the sharp of his hand.
Suddenly a loud yell of dismay and warning arose from the topgallant forecastle, the only words I caught being, "--under our bows!
The corvette's topgallant sails and royals having been handed, she also was brought to the wind and hove-to on the weather beam of the prize.
As it would have been unwise to heave to in so dangerous a position, the topsails were lowered on the caps, and topgallant sails and royals let fly, so as not to leave the boat behind.
There we lay with our fore-topgallant and topsail yards caught in the branches, and our mainsail securely locked.
The Jeer falls were always kept rove, and I have on occasion, when dealing with baffling winds about the line, seen royal, topgallant and lower yards up and down three times in a day.
By morning the ship was on her course again, the wind aft, and we with topgallant sails set running about 16 knots.
We were five apprentices in all, and, with the carpenter and boatswain, lived in the starboard side of the topgallant forecastle.
I could see the "doctor's" face above the topgallant rail forward and that of Chips in the waist.
In the early hours of the morning, we were still within two hundred fathoms of her; and she showed nothing in the gray light save the mainmast and the topgallant forecastle.
Then the burst of water would shoot high in the air, going sometimes clear to the topgallant yard, nearly a hundred feet above the deck, while all forward would disappear in the flying spray and spume.
The wind bore more and more abeam, and under the pressure she heeled over, letting the great load on her decks roar off in a torrent to leeward, over the topgallant rail and waterways.
Her main topgallant mast was also gone at the cross-trees, but the maintopsail held strongly.
I finally managed to dodge the seas enough to get aft alive, though one caught me under the lee of the fore rigging and nigh smothered me as it poured over the topgallant rail.
We were far over the water as the Pirate was laying down with hertopgallant rail beneath the sea.
Along the high topgallant rail could be seen faces, and on the quarter-deck Mrs. Sackett stood with our friend Thompson, better known in the Antipodes as Jackwell, the burglar.
His hair and beard, which resembled the mane of a lion, could be seen at all times, from the poop to the topgallant forecastle, rising above the hatches or going down the gangways, where he attended to everything in person.
She was clear under amidships, and only the topgallant forecastle and poop were out of water, which was now nearly level with the floor in the after cabin.
The ship was so deep that I knew she would not keep her deck clear, and I started to gain the topgallant forecastle where the height would make it safer.
The heat drove them to thetopgallant forecastle and in a few minutes we could see all standing there near the windlass.
I tried to make my way aft again to help, for I saw it was about our only hope, and started to crawl along the weather topgallant rail.
Loosed all the Reefs out of the Topsails, and got Topgallant Yards across.
Loosed the Reefs out of the Topsails and gotTopgallant Yards a Cross; unstowed the Anchors and bent the Cables.
First part little wind and Hazey, with rain; remainder strong Gales with hard squalls, which brought us under our close Reeft Topsails, and obliged us to strike Topgallant Yards.
At Noon took in the Topsails and got down Topgallant yards.
In the Night split both Topgallant Sails so much that they were obliged to be unbent to repair.
In the morning got up Topgallant yards, and set the sails; found the Variation to be 16 degrees 16 minutes East.
A great one to carry sail; yet in the sixteen years of his commands he had had no more serious accident than the loss of a fore-topgallant mast or splitting a couple of courses.
The third day after leaving Malta the forecastle hands were congregated on the topgallant forecastle during the dogwatch from six to eight.
The fore and main topgallantbraces were broken, and the yards were swinging about to the toss of the ship.
Each time she ran away from a treacherous-looking breaker, the captain would pat the topgallant bulwarks and speak words of touching tenderness as though he was communing with a little child.
Almost every step downward threatened a calamity, so they slipped from one rattling to another until their feet landed on the topgallant rail, and they slid under the shear pole on to the deck.
It was decided to decorate the vessel from topgallant trucks to mainrail by attaching the herring to the signal haulyards about three feet apart.
The youngest apprentice furled the royals and staysails, two other boys the topgallant sails, and all the crew, except the master, the larger square sails.
It is not an uncommon thing for men to grumble and refuse to go aloft and furl a royal or topgallant sail when it has been carried too long; and I have seen the captain spring up the rigging and appeal to their manliness to follow him.
By the time the Kentish Knock Lightship was reached the wind had increased so that the topgallant sails had to be furled and two reefs taken in the topsails.
It was seen that the stranger was under a cloud of sail, including royals, andtopgallant studding sails on both sides.
In small men-of-war no cabins are placed under the poop, nor are they ever under the topgallant forecastle.
Then up with you, right to the main-topgallant cross-trees.
There was a similar raised place forward, called the topgallant forecastle.
With the assistance of the man Bob had relieved at the wheel, they soon had the topgallant sails, which had been furled, chock-a-block.
Captain Sumner, aided by our hero and Jack, at length found the topgallant halyards, and lowered the sail in the peak.
Here, gentlemen, take the halyards, and rouse up the topgallant sails.
Richard Darcy, a young seaman, whilst engaged on the crosstrees fell to the deck, striking the rail on the topgallant forecastle in his fall.
The town is seemingly built on a well-drained swamp or marsh, and consequently lies very low, in fact, from our topgallant forecastle we could command a pretty general view of the whole of it.
The reefs of the Alabama's topsails were shaken out and preparations made to set the topgallant sails in case it should be necessary, and the cruiser ran down diagonally toward the stranger's path.
Both vessels carried their topgallant sails, although the masts bent and threatened to go over the side.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "topgallant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
