 | 1847 - 640 sider
...being dashed to pieces. The heavy rolling of the vessel, and the probability of the masts giving way each time the lower yard-arms struck against the cliffs,...sea, it was difficult both to hear and to execute the otders that were given, so that it was three-quarters of an hour before we could get the yards braced... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 580 sider
...and the probability of the masts giving way each time the lower yard-arms struck against the clifl's, which were towering high above our mast-heads, rendered...execute the orders that were given, so that it was three-quarters of an hour before we could get the yards braced bye, and the maintack hauled on board... | |
 | 1847 - 610 sider
...sooner was the enter given than the daring spirit of the British seaman manifested itself. The nteii ran up the rigging •with as much alacrity as on...ordinary occasion ; and although more than once driven «If the yard, they, after a short lime, succeeded in loosing the sail. Amidst the roar of (he wind... | |
 | 1848 - 530 sider
...being dashed to pieces. The heavy rolling of the vessel, and the probability of the masts giving way each time the lower yard-arms struck against the cliffs,...execute the orders that were given, so that it was three-quarters of an hour before we could get the yards braced by, and the maintack hauled on board... | |
 | 1848 - 626 sider
...Ill dashed to pieces. The heavy rolling of the vessel, and the probability of the masts giving way each time the lower yard-arms struck against the cliffs,...execute the orders that were given, so that it was three-quarters of an hour before we could get the yards braced by, and the maintack hauled on board... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1848 - 214 sider
...heavy rolling of the vessel, and the probability of the masts giving way each time the lower yards struck against the cliffs, which were towering high...after a short time succeeded in loosing the sail. o Amidst the roar of the wind and sea, it was difficult both to hear and to execute the orders that... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 782 sider
...being dashed to pieces. The heavy rolling of the vessel, and the probability of the masts giving way each time the lower yard-arms struck against the cliffs,...was difficult both to hear and to execute the orders tliat were given, so that it was three-quarters of an hour before we could get the yards braced by,... | |
 | World - 1852 - 588 sider
...rendered it a service of exBravery of treme danger to loose the main-sail. But no sooner the crew. was the order given, than the daring spirit of the...off the yard, they after a short time succeeded in loosening the sail. Amidst the roar of the wind and sea, it was difficult both to hear and to execute... | |
 | 1856 - 580 sider
...being dashed to pieces. The heavy rolling of the vessel, and the probability of the masts giving way each time the lower yard-arms struck against the cliffs,...execute the orders that were given, so that it was three-quarters of an hour before we could get the yards braced by, and the maintack hauled on board... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1869 - 500 sider
...being dashed to pieces. The heavy rolling of the vessel, and the probability of the masts giving away each time the lower yard-arms struck against the cliffs,...execute the orders that were given, so that it was three-quarters of an hour before we could get the yards braced by, and the main tack hauled on board... | |
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The heavy rolling of the vessel, and the probability of the masts giving way each time the lower yard-arms struck against the cliffs, which were towering high above our mastheads, rendered it a service of extreme danger to loose the main-sail ; but no... 
