mainmast

Fastened by chains to the mainmast were a number of grisly staghounds, who now began leaping and barking at me, and by the mizzen a huge puma was cramped in a little iron cage far too small even to give it turning room.

The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006

At the top of the mainmast is a fighting top from which project two large spears.

A Short Account of King's College Chapel Walter Poole Littlechild

The mainmast was a wreck; the shrouds on the port side having been torn from the gunwale the second day of the storm, and the entire deck was one mass of debris and wreckage.

The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen Roger Thompson Finlay

"If we attempt it, Sir, we shall lose them, for a man aloft can do nothing; besides their being down would ease the ship very little; the mainmast is a sprung mast; I wish it was overboard without carrying any thing else along with it; but that can soon be done, the gale cannot last for ever; 'twill soon be daylight now."

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Fastened by chains to the mainmast were a number of grisly staghounds, who now began leaping and barking at me, and by the mizzen a huge puma was cramped in a little iron cage far too small even to give it turning room.

The Island of Doctor Moreau 1906

Fastened by chains to the mainmast were a number of grisly staghounds, who now began leaping and barking at me, and by the mizzen a huge puma was cramped in a little iron cage far too small even to give it turning room.

The Strange Face Herbert George 1896

Fastened by chains to the mainmast were a number of grisly staghounds, who now began leaping and barking at me, and by the mizzen a huge puma was cramped in a little iron cage far too small even to give it turning room.

The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 1896

The hooker needed no looking after in such weather as this, and the only individual, beside ourselves, abaft the mainmast was the helmsman.

The Castaways Harry Collingwood 1886

Paul did not think so; but he made no reply to the angry man, though he ordered the alleged culprit to the mainmast, which is the locality of the high court on shipboard.

Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim Oliver Optic 1859

At the dark end of the first day we returned, exhausted, to our little cove, towing the mainmast behind us.

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