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Sentence Examples
But there are some advantages to building a square-rigger in the 21st, rather than the 19th century.
A magnificent new Dutch square-rigger, Stad Amsterdam, is an expensive thoroughbred, capable of making 18 knots upwind.
The Alexander von Humboldt, a grand old German square-rigger named after that famous explorer, is maintained entirely by volunteers.
At night, the kids sleep on the Joseph Conrad, an 1882 square-rigger that has 50 bunks.
We'd boarded the five-masted square-rigger Royal Clipper about 12 hours earlier, but my first evening afloat was shrouded in a somewhat hazy glow.
In the story, Jack Aubrey rounds South America's Cape Horn to face the full fury of a massive storm on a 120-foot square-rigger.
Packard, a 244-foot square-rigger and the captain's quarters of goldleaf panels, marble and brass fixtures, and plush upholstery.
Antov Dapvel, 20, from Russia, was enjoying his first time in Newcastle as a crew member of the giant Russian square-rigger, the Shtandart.
Jibs proved handy in helping to steer and were much valued e.g., on the square-rigger, as a means of better close-hauled sailing and of setting extra sail with comparatively little labour demand.
The restored square-rigger James Craig was also in port for the regatta.
Climbing 118 feet up the mast of a square-rigger isn't something that me or my schoolmates usually do, but it sounds like just the sort of adventure I've been looking for.
Examples from Classical Literature
I thought perhaps you were trying to ring in a square-rigger on me, and I'm not familiar with them.
Probably he would be all right on a square-rigger, but he makes entirely too much fuss here.
At the end of two hours they came upon a square-rigger with her decks just awash, and six men clinging to her rigging.
Aboard a square-rigger, keel-hauling was practiced from the main yardarm.
Wicks was no hand with a square-rigger, and he had shown it.
There is not, as in the square-rigger, a balancing of weights and strains.
