 | Sir James Clark Ross - 1847 - 502 sider
...occasion ; and although more than once driven off the yard, they after a short time succeeded in loosing the sail. Amidst the roar of the wind and sea, it...quarters of an hour before we could get the yards braced bye, and the main tack hauled on board sharp aback — an expedient that perhaps had never before been... | |
 | 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
...occasion ; and although more than once driven off the yard, they, after a short time, succeeded in loosing the sail. Amidst the roar of the wind and sea, it...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
...driven «If the yard, they, after a short lime, succeeded in loosing the sail. Amidst the roar of (he wind and sea, it was difficult both to hear and to...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 mainlack hauled on board... | |
 | 1847 - 640 sider
...occasion ; and although more than once driven off the yard, they, after a short time, succeeded in loosing the sail. Amidst the roar of the wind and 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... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1848 - 214 sider
...although more than once driven off the yard, they after a short time succeeded in loosing the sail. o Amidst the roar of the wind and sea, it was difficult...quarters of an hour before we could get the yards braced bye, and the maintack hauled on board sharp aback — an expedient that perhaps had never before been... | |
 | 1848 - 530 sider
...occasion ; and although more than once driven off the yard, they, after a short time, succeeded in loosing the sail. Amidst the roar of the wind and sea, it...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
...was difficult both to hear and to 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 sharp aback — an expedient that perhaps- had never before been resorted to by seamen in such weather :... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 782 sider
...occasion ; and although more than once driven off the yard, they, after a short time, succeeded in loosing the sail. Amidst the roar of the wind and sea, it...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,... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1853 - 534 sider
...occasion; and although more than once driven off the yard, they after a short time succeeded in loosing the sail. Amidst the roar of the wind and sea, it...braced by, and the main-tack hauled on board sharp aback — an expedient that perhaps had never before been resorted to by seamen in such weather : but... | |
 | 1856 - 580 sider
...occasion ; and although more than once driven off the yard, they, after a short time, succeeded in loosing the sail. Amidst the roar of the wind and sea, it...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... | |
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... was the order given, than the daring spirit of the British seaman manifested itself — the men ran up the rigging with as much alacrity as on any ordinary occasion; and although more than once driven off the yard, they after a short time succeeded... 
