| 单词 | yardarm |
| 例句 | “The sun is over the yardarm,” the doctor said happily. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Twenty-two canvas sails were lashed into place on the yardarms above us. Drug search in the Panama Canal: How my high school adventure at sea almost ended 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z And it ended with the sun over the yardarm in my best friend's backyard, where we celebrated the season by grilling a Copper River sockeye on a cedar plank. Well fed and well read: chapter one, my weekend edition 2011-06-06T16:45:04Z The sun’s over the yardarm if I’m not cruelly mistaken. ‘The Passenger’ 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z “It’s not so we can penalize or hang somebody from a yardarm,” he said. Marine Corps chief backs study of troubled final days of Afghan fight 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z In the Timberlake household, drinking starts as soon as “the sun is over the yardarm.” Your no-drama drinking guide for the holidays 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z When 70 is the new 50, it's still cocktail hour when the sun crosses the yardarm. Teenagers and college-age people drink less while this group pours another round 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z A pirate really has only one thing properly to expect: swinging from a yardarm on a noose. Opinion | Can North Korea Trust Us? 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z So in that sense, the round of the first day belonged either to Zach Johnson or Danny Willett: they both shot 66 with the sun well over the yardarm and the elements doing their worst. The Open 2015: day two – live! | Scott Murray 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Of course that would be the yardarm, matey. Throw these incorrect ship terms overboard 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Mercer and the crew hung a broom from the yardarm in a riff on Navy lore. On anniversary of Navy Yard shooting, loss of expert shipbuilder still echoes at sea Greene was not one to wait for the sun to go down over the yardarm before having a tipple, said Diederich, though he never saw him inebriated. Book gives up-close look at Graham Greene's political writing 2012-11-23T06:01:18Z The photograph was clearly taken in the daytime, which makes you wonder what they find in their trousers to compare once the sun is over the yardarm. London 2012: is it wrong to, ahem, admire the bodies of the athletes? 2012-08-06T15:20:55Z So in that sense, the round of the first day belonged either to Zach Johnson or Danny Willett: they both shot 66 with the sun well over the yardarm and the elements doing their worst. The Open 2015: day two – live! | Scott Murray 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z “The man who did this ought to be strung up on the yardarm!” he exclaimed. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z Here also the foreboding proved true: the man had fallen from the yardarm, and disappeared before a boat could be lowered, although his fall had been heard by all aboard. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z The yardarm on which the falcon had perched appeared to me to be my ultimate destination, or to suggest it. In the Yellow Sea 2011-12-26T03:00:10.083Z So close did they pass to some of these that the yardarms seemed almost to touch them. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z He fought his way as far as the lower yardarm. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z Captain Porter, standing on the deck, hailed, saying: "If you touch a single yardarm, I shall board you instantly!" Four American Naval Heroes Paul Jones, Admiral Farragut, Oliver H. Perry, Admiral Dewey 2011-07-04T02:00:24.047Z All very fine; but it was an act of piracy, for which he could have been hanged at the yardarm. Privateers and Privateering 2011-06-21T02:00:26.477Z So some of the Puritan sympathizers on this island could have swum out after them and seen to it that my men were shot, or hanged from a yardarm. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z "I can see a fellow walk a plank or seized up to the yardarm, but I am too tender-hearted to see such a thing done as he hints at in his infernal rhymes." Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-04-11T02:00:12.290Z They were good men but as little at home on horseback as a lands-man upon a yardarm. The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry 2011-03-28T02:00:23.133Z He gave the order to rig the line over a yardarm and to attach it to a foreward winch. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z The Commonwealth Games, however, have driven me back to the TV before the sun is over the yardarm, and I note the Jeremy Kyle Show is still on. Delhi delivers absolute delight to daytime-TV schedules 2010-10-10T23:05:00Z He’s lucky, in the old days he would’ve been hung from the yardarm. Shamrocks on S.I. Ferry Raise Ruckus Instead of Morale 2010-03-15T20:51:00Z Tortona for a long while resisted the execution of these orders; and when finally seized, with some of his companions, they were all sentenced by the vindictive Veniero to be hung at the yardarm. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies It seems that a foremast hand on board the ship which had brought him hither fell from the yardarm into the sea. The Story of Malta And Wilbur went off, with the young second mate following, thanking his stars that he had not been swung to the yardarm, for mutiny on the high seas is a capital offense. At the Fall of Port Arthur Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy O’Hara was killed, and White mortally wounded, and as for Andy Duncan, he was run up to the yardarm and hanged the next morning. Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa If we do not get to Tarragona by four o'clock this afternoon, I will have you hung from the yardarm. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion The galley in which he sailed was lying yardarm and yardarm alongside of a Turkish galley, with which it was hotly engaged. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies The ship keeled over until her yardarms were close to the water. The Greater Republic A History of the United States Flathootly surprised us by leaping on a yardarm and exclaiming: "Gintlemen, I tell ye what it is, I'm no weight at all." The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar To the topsails fly The bounding youths, and o'er the yardarms whirl The whizzing ropes, and swift the canvas furl; When, from their grasp the bursting tempests bore The sheets half-gather'd, and in fragments tore. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem As he thought thus, the winds broke the mast of his raft, and the sail and yardarm fell into the sea, and the waves dragged him deep down. Tales of Troy and Greece "I'd put a bullet through his skull, or swing him from the yardarm, and make an end of it," said Halkett, roughly. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas "Yes, yes, hang him to the yardarm," said the English gentlemen; "we will have our explanations afterward." A Romance of the West Indies The Northern folks are awful mad 'cause our President has issued letters of mark-we and reprisal, and their papers demand that every one of us who is taken shall be hung to the yardarm. Marcy The Blockade Runner He grasped the yardarm and swung it suddenly and heavily around against Roberts. The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska "He'd look remarkably well from a yardarm, sir," returned the captain. Treasure Island What a neat counter, and how well formed between the yardarms! A Sailor of King George Two other masters of vessels, at about the same distance from the volcano, report seeing the mastheads and yardarms of their ships aglow with electric fire. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror "In between times you thread the yardarm, too." The Rover Boys in Southern Waters or The Deserted Steam Yacht The wind flapped their small sail and the yardarm wobbled badly. The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska An American sailor had crawled along the yardarm of the Richard to the mast of the Serapis and had dropped a hand grenade. A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. You can string the rest of the bloody pirates to the yardarm, for all we care. Blackbeard: Buccaneer Convict mutinies often were only suppressed after desperate hand-to-hand fighting; then a day or two later the ringleaders would be hanged from the yardarm, and a dozen or more convicts flogged at the gratings. The Beginning Of The Sea Story Of Australia 1901 A fortnight later Parker swung from the yardarm of that ship. William Pitt and the Great War By and by we hang Oahika up there until he go dead!” and I pointed to the schooner’s lower yardarm. Turned Adrift And among all these curved necks stood up the tall, straight masts with the long yardarms swinging across them holding the looped-up sails. Viking Tales The tossing crests are blown into spindrift against the weather yardarm, while a pelting hailstorm stings the wet, cold hands and faces. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways The wreck was a French brig, the D'Artagnan, as was afterwards ascertained, and on coming close it was seen her masts were still standing, but leaning over so that her yardarms touched the water. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands They looked aloft; at the end of the yardarm was a mass of bluish light like a small globe. The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews. They hung down from her yardarms, too, in mammoth festoons. The Rich Little Poor Boy The Phoebe passed within fifteen feet of the Essex, when Captain Porter, who was standing on deck, hailed her, saying: "If you touch a single yardarm I shall board you instantly!" Ten Boys from History Meanwhile, Ocampo had reached the Pearl Coast, decoyed a number of the natives on board, and made slaves of them, hanging their chief at the yardarm. Las Casas 'The Apostle of the Indies' Not a word was now spoken except by the master as he issued his orders from the yardarm. Won from the Waves At length, now travelling to one mast-head, now to the other, and back again to the yardarm, it finally disappeared. The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews. We were now exchanging broadsides yardarm to yardarm, but the drubbing they had already received seemed to dishearten the Frenchmen. The Rival Crusoes He was ordered by Nelson to be hanged at the fore yardarm of the Minerva. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century I'll see you hung up to dry at my yardarm 160 first! The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure The other is that the survivors were swung at the yardarm. A Son Of The Sun If ye don’t fancy walking the plank or dancing on nothing at the yardarm, ye’d better pull away and hold your jaw.” Martin Rattler To be sure, a few of them were run up to the yardarm, but the men won’t stand bullying now any more than they did in those days. The Rival Crusoes Everything had been swept from the deck, and Captain Bourne's eldest son, who was serving as able-seaman, had been knocked off the lee foretopsail yardarm while assisting to close reef the topsail. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Those left on board made a desperate defense, but the captain, 49 seeing that escape was impossible, chose to blow up the ship rather than be hanged as a pirate from the yardarm. The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure The captain then called to him to go out to the end of the “yardarm.” The Life of a Ship His creator liked him, but I could have seen Silver withering on the wuddie at Execution Dock, or suspended from a yardarm, without shedding the tears of sensibility. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) He had remarked the two ships remaining hotly engaged, yardarm to yardarm out of the line, and he had never lost sight of them altogether. True Blue The R—— arrived this morning's tide, and reports that Jack was knocked off the foretopsail yardarm, and they never see'd him again. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century I shrieked out with terror, expecting that the next instant, as the yardarm swung round, he would be dashed to pieces on the deck, or hove off into the raging sea. Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler The ship plunged heavily; and as she tore her way through the waves, she rolled her yardarms almost into the water, so that it was difficult to keep the deck without holding on. Peter the Whaler “We shall have to fight it out, yardarm to yardarm, if the pirates so choose, or maybe they think fit to board us,” muttered the first mate. The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley “They are having a running fight of it—yardarm to yardarm, as far as I can make out,” said Paul. True Blue The lee yardarm man insisted on hauling out to leeward before the weather yardarm man told him to, which was of course contrary to the order of nautical ethics. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century I saw the men hauling at the braces, when, looking up, I caught sight of Jim at the yardarm. Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler Another day, if my people do not insist on your walking the plank, you may hope, perhaps, to have the satisfaction of beholding me dangling at a yardarm. Peter the Whaler Uncle Jack, who had been below, sprang up the companion-ladder, and, looking over the side, saw that it was little Jem, who had fallen from the fore yardarm. The Mate of the Lily Notes from Harry Musgrave's Log Book “Unless fellows are inclined to lay alongside each other, yardarm to yardarm, and have it out like brave men, to my mind they had better stay ashore and leave fighting alone.” True Blue The lee yardarm man managed to crawl in on the foot-rope, got into the maintop, and fell asleep there, while the gradual cessation of speech from the champions to windward indicated that they also slept. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Of course we took the usual precautions of heaving the lead and having a man at the mast-head, and one at each yardarm, while Tom himself stood forward, his hand shading his eyes. The Cruise of the Dainty Rovings in the Pacific I dreamed all night that I was in the hands of the Americans, with a rope round my neck and about to be run up at the yardarm. Peter the Whaler She lay over till her yardarms almost dipped in the ocean. Ben Burton Born and Bred at Sea The stout masts bent and quivered in spite of all the shrouds and stays which supported them, and then over she heeled, till the yardarms touched the seething ocean. True Blue One of the men, as is the practice when reefing, was straddle legs on the yardarm, and had a turn of a rope round him. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century But the sight of the yardarm of a man-of-war, not to speak of her guns, has a wonderful effect in keeping such gentry in order. The Three Admirals “What would you say if we were to expend you and your brother officer, by running you up to the yardarm of one of our ships?” asked Jack. The Three Lieutenants We were running down the Coromandel coast; the wind fell, and we lay, rolling our lower yardarms under in a long heavy swell, which came moving onwards in giant undulations towards the coast. Ben Burton Born and Bred at Sea Had the French mustered twice their numbers, and could they have got fairly alongside of them, yardarm to yardarm, they supposed that they could have thrashed them, and probably would have done so. True Blue “And hang me at the yardarm, squaire?” said the skipper, with a grin. The Black Bar Over she heeled more and more, until the yardarms touched the water. The Three Admirals This was suspended by a line at the end of a spar, rigged from the fore yardarm, on about a level with the bulwarks, and well answered the purpose intended. The Three Lieutenants The matter will be that you two will be hung at the yardarm some fine morning. Cutlass and Cudgel An English man-of-war got hold of him after awhile, an' he was strung on the yardarm to dry. The Search for the Silver City A Tale of Adventure in Yucatan We simply ran dead away to leeward, the three of us, fighting almost yardarm to yardarm, and exchanging broadsides as rapidly as the guns could be loaded and run out. A Pirate of the Caribbees Presently back it came to the mast, and darted out to the lee yardarm. The Three Admirals But, with the exception of two holes in the Nonsuch’s mainsail, and a severed brace dangling from the fore-topsail yardarm, no damage was discoverable, whereat they cheered again. The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer When young Barnstable was a lieutenant in the British navy, Colonel Howard seized him as a spy, and commanded him to be hung to the yardarm of an American frigate, called the Alacrity. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Expect me then soon, for I hope to run athwart you, yardarm and yardarm, as an old salt we once knew used to say. Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series Young Biencourt is for hanging the miscreant to the yardarm, but the sinner gains the ear of the saints by woeful tale of penitence, and Father Biard sides with young Pontgrav�. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom The topsails were lowered, and the topmen, like bees, swiftly swarmed aloft, laying out on the yardarms. The Three Admirals By '—' if you pull another face at me, sir, you shall caper off the yardarm, sir; on a string, sir; high as Haman, sir! The Mayor of Troy The little colored flags flew up to the yardarm like lightning, and it grew quiet on the Connecticut. Banzai! by Parabellum Ducking from the main yardarm was inflicted for stubbornness, laziness, going on shore without leave, or sleeping while on watch. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. Looking up, he saw a ball of fire running along a yardarm near the top of the mast. A Chinese Wonder Book Contrary to previous custom, their own shipmates, the partners and followers in their crime, were compelled to hang them, manning the rope by which the condemned were swayed to the yardarm. Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy Hey, bo'sun, rig a whip and chair on the yardarm to take a lady on board. Romance The officer disappeared, and the captain, standing by the port yardarm on the bridge, waited anxiously for the cutter which was approaching at full speed. Banzai! by Parabellum The yardarms, and possibly the chains, were at one time fitted with heavy steel sickles, projecting outboard, which were kept sharp, so that, when running alongside an enemy, they might cut her rigging to pieces. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. Bucko Lynch might kill a man in what he considered the line of duty, but snapping men off a yardarm was not his style. The Blood Ship Finding nothing against him, they vented their rage and disappointment by hanging him to the yardarm of his vessel until he was nearly dead. The Leading Facts of English History There was little manœuvring, the contest being what is known as a square yardarm and yardarm fight. Dewey and Other Naval Commanders During the game of pirates, Florence Dombey had been hung from a willow branch, in lieu of a yardarm, and had remained dangling there in the wind, forgotten by her mother. Lydia of the Pines It began life like a modern "moon-raker," a triangular piece of canvas, setting from the truck, or summit of the topmast, to the yardarm of the main topsail-yard. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. But—remember what happened that night on the yardarm! The Blood Ship The "lifts" by which the yard is hung and "topped" run from the yardarms—the ends of the yards—to the head of the mast which the yard crosses. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Lawrence, in accordance with his chivalrous nature, disdained to seek any unfair advantage, his purpose being to engage in what is called a fair yardarm and yardarm fight. Dewey and Other Naval Commanders So close did they lie that their yardarms interlocked, and their rigging was soon so fouled that Jones could not have got away, even had he wished to do so. American Men of Action Maybe a rope at the end of the yardarm is what he deserves. A Sea Queen's Sailing And when we had gained the yardarm, he added, "It is coming, Jack; one hand for yourself and one for the ship!" The Blood Ship From the yardarms also come the "braces," by means of which the yards are swung so as to set the sails at the proper angle. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Fresh panic seized them; it could hardly be mere arrest if he knew all this; he might order them hanged from a yardarm or shot at sunrise. Love Stories On 29th June has the aged Admiral Prince Carraciolo hung at the Minerva's fore yardarm at the instigation of Lady Hamilton and the royal profligates of Naples. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon An improvised horse was therefore constructed, and a block with a rope rove through it was hooked on to the main yardarm. Windjammers and Sea Tramps Actually, the whole thing occurred in about a second's space, and my feet just about cleared the yardarm when Newman's grip fastened upon my ankle. The Blood Ship When the yardarm of the reefspar is up at the lee side, the sail cannot sag to leeward when the tack is eased away. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 In this he succeeds, but being seized as a spy, is commanded by colonel Howard to be hung to the yardarm of an American frigate called the Alacrity. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook At five o'clock he was hanged at the yardarm of the Neapolitan frigate Minerva. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon She would sniff around for a female presence, and then she would look at Paul; Paul would suggest that the sun was over the yardarm; and they would go to DiMillo's for dinner. O+F But, from the very first, the man's personality dominated me, and, after that night on the yardarm, I felt a passionate loyalty to him. The Blood Ship They can string me up from the highest yardarm just like they did Nixon and I'm not playing to lose. Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel I'll draw it quietly round and round—closer and closer—till they can neither blow nor budge, and then up to the yardarm they go, with what breath is left in them. Wylder's Hand Still, the sea struck her abeam, forcing her bodily to leeward, and heaving the lower yardarms into the ocean. Homeward Bound or, the Chase The owner went about flyin' the signal for 'attend public execution,' so to say, but there was no corpse at the yardarm. Traffics and Discoveries Young Einar Eindridson, ever full of sport and play, had perched himself astride of the yardarm, and there, with his longbow and arrows shot at the seagulls as they flew by. Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Slowly and cautiously he slipped from yardarm to yardarm, approaching nearer and nearer to the deck; at last he reached it, still carrying the child with a firm grasp. Georgie's Present Tales of Newfoundland Professor Soley represents the combat of the States and Macedonian as a plain yardarm and yardarm action after the first forty minutes. The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans All further attempts at a communication were instantly useless; the corvette being half a mile ahead in a quarter of an hour, rolling her yardarms nearly to the water. Homeward Bound or, the Chase Garachico was the only port in Tenerife, with a breakwater of rocky isle and water so deep that the yardarms of men-of-war could almost touch the vineyards. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Banners of silk streamed from the masthead and from the yardarms, and a most beautiful standard fluttered from a tall staff on the lypting. Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age "I should like to see your owner dangling from the yardarm," the major said, wrathfully. With Moore at Corunna He was hanged at the yardarm until he was dead. Jim Davis "String him up to the yardarm at once, then," suggested Sam Mason. Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece From every yardarm the white ensign flew, the flag which is to the sailor as the tattered colors were in days of old to a hard-pressed regiment. America's War for Humanity At the same moment a red painted shield was hoisted to the yardarm. Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age The years that had seen the unprested seaman freed from the dread of the yardarm and the horrors of the forepeak, had bred a new terror for him. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore "Any further instructions?" queried the intrepid explorer from the shadow of that ingenious yardarm. The Cruise of the Kawa A rope was got and the end of it was flung over the yardarm, and a running noose made in it. Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece Men have been hung at the yardarm for singing that song. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography The words were scarcely out of my mouth when smash went our bulwarks like brown paper, and our yardarms crumpled like umbrellas. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II Yet Griffith and Blake followed McGraw out to the extreme end of the icy walk and poised themselves, shoulder to wind, on narrow sleet- glazed steel beams, as unconcerned as sailors on a yardarm. Out of the Primitive I showed them the new captain hanging at the yardarm of the ship, and told them they had nothing less to expect. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 Safer the she-bear with her suckling young, Kinder the hooked shark from a yardarm hung, More rational a tiger by the hornets stung Than perfidy outcozened. Guns of the Gods One day I happened to be on a yardarm, side by side with Crochard, helping the sailors to furl a sail, when I saw him drop a huge block, which fell upon Lieut. The Clique of Gold Above, along the yardarm and up the ratlines swarmed his bowmen. The Sea-Hawk His imagination was full of sails, yardarms, and rudders. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 What if the vast wood of masts and yardarms below London Bridge should be in ablaze? The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 The electric light suddenly went out, and two enormous waterspouts crashed onto the deck of the frigate, racing like a torrent from stem to stern, toppling crewmen, breaking spare masts and yardarms from their lashings. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea “Two watches on a single yardarm and unable to put a reef in a handkerchief like that!” he snorted. The Mutiny of the Elsinore The huge vessels lie over on one side and are flamed with fires of brushwood to rid them of seaweed, while their yardarms soak in the water. Tartarin De Tarascon "Well, I should look SHARP—hang all the ringleaders at the yardarm, clap the rest under hatches, and steer for the nearest prison." A Simpleton "I wish," he began, looking round thoughtfully after a minute or so, "I wish we could get a plank or a yardarm from somewhere." My Lady Caprice Its furled sails merged with the lines of its yardarms. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea In the meantime she lay dead, her lee yardarms almost touching the sea, the sea creaming solidly to her hatch-combings across the buried, unseen rail. The Mutiny of the Elsinore The articles provide that any man of whatever rank concealing any part of a prize, be it of the value of no more than a peso, shall be hanged at the yardarm. Captain Blood The Spaniard started, clutched his sword-hilt, and then hissed back through his closed vizor,— "For that word, sirrah, you hang at my yardarm, if Saint Mary gives me grace." Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Overhead the yardarm blinkers were signaling, and directly over Sara Lee's head a great white searchlight swept the water ahead. The Amazing Interlude English writers boasted of the forest of masts and yardarms which covered the river from the Bridge to the Tower, and of the stupendous sums which were collected at the Custom House in Thames Street. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 May I be ignominiously hanged at a yardarm if that’s true. 'Twixt Land and Sea Don Miguel de Espinosa, the Admiral of Spain in the West Indies, and his nephew Don Esteban who sailed with him, did not lack the will to bring the adventurer to the yardarm. Captain Blood "If I had known that," he said at last in a thick voice, "you would be hanging from the yardarm of the Encarnacion at this moment." Captain Blood If they so much as put a shot across my bows, up goes their Deputy-Governor to the yardarm. Captain Blood Throw me a rope with a running noose over the yardarm there, against the need of it. Captain Blood Although ye deserve nothing less than that same rope and yardarm, I assure you that it's to be employed only as a last resource. Captain Blood "String him up from the yardarm," he cried, his deep voice harsh and angry, and more than one of the slaves standing to their arms made echo. Captain Blood |
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