ammiral

They come and lay the cloth presently, wide as the main-sheet of some tall ammiral.

The Newcomes 2006

"Like the mast of some tall ammiral," from the shelving steeps that overhang the torrents, and piercing high into the blue.

A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

While, therefore, the New England forester must search long before he finds a pine fit to be the mast Of some great ammiral, beeches and elms and birches, as sturdy as the mightiest of their progenitors, are still no rarity [181].

Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical) 1874

Mast, bends the gallant, 537. like a drunken sailor on a, 97. nail to the, her holy flag, 635. of some great ammiral, 224.

Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862

I prefer the “mast of some great ammiral,” with all its tackle, to the Scotch fir or the alpine tannen; and think that more poetry has been made out of it.

Life of Lord Byron Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 1854

While, therefore, the New England forester must search long before he finds a pine fit to be the mast Of some great ammiral, beeches and elms and birches, as sturdy as the mightiest of their progenitors, are still no rarity.

The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841

They come and lay the cloth presently, wide as the main-sheet of some tall ammiral.

The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

This flag-staff, though "tall as a mast" -- Mr Atherstone does not venture to go on to say with Milton, "hewn on Norwegian hills," or "of some tall ammiral," though the readers 'minds supply the deficiency -- this mast was, we are told, for "_two strong men_ a task;" but it must have been so for twenty.

Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

I prefer the "mast of some great ammiral," with all its tackle, to the Scotch fir or the alpine tannen; and think that _more_ poetry _has been_ made out of it.

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815

Milton speaks of the "mast of some tall ammiral" (_Paradise

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853