Word: mizzenmast
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Some readers have zero tolerance for the genre of seagoing adventures. To such landlubbers, nautical language all sounds distressingly like shiver-me- mizzenmast or belay-the-taffrail or somesuch, and they quickly jump ship in search of books written in more accessible prose. Too bad for them, because they have therefore missed the high-sailing novels of Patrick O'Brian...
...because of the risks to others if I passed out, which seemed probable." Those risks taken by his rescuers were really unnecessary, Sir Francis intimated. "Although I shall always be grateful for the kindness and skill of the help I received from the Royal Navy in removing the damaged mizzenmast and sailing back, I still believe I would have made it alone." Yet Sir Francis will probably follow doctors' orders and not go sailing alone again for at least a year. A singlehanded voyage before then, wrote the Old Man of the Sea, would likely end "in a spinnaker...
During the second period. Wells continued his heroics, defining mizzenmast as the aftermost mast on a ship, but his efforts were in vain. Norfolk established an insurmountable lead when Arthur Devlin named dozens of state capitals and state birds...
...most ingenious in a triumphal march that turns out to be an ambush-long avenues of Moorish troops stand at rigid attention, each with a quick viking blade at his back. In the subsequent melee, even the lovely Schiaffino is impaled on a lance the size of a mizzenmast. Though such wounds are invariably mortal, they never seem the least bit serious. And that is probably what keeps Ships from going under...
Rugged Science. A steel-hulled, 142-ft. ketch (tall mainmast forward, shorter mizzenmast aft) with berths for nine scientists and a crew of 17, the Atlantis was still a very small ship to cope for months with the North Atlantic in all its ferocious moods. She had a rather feeble engine, but sails were her main reliance. Such a laboratory makes oceanography a rugged science. While the little ship rolls and pitches, the scientists work round the clock, snatching bits of food and sleep during quiet intervals in their experiments. Dress is informal. In the Tropics, oceanographers favor ragged shorts...