"Spritsail" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in case he should, he would have to go over the whole again,— or of dropping no tar upon deck, for then there would be a soft word in his ear from the mate. In this manner I tarred down all the head-stays, but found the rigging about the jib-booms, martingale, and spritsail yard, upon which I was afterwards put, the hardest. Here you have to "hang on with your eyelids'' and tar ...
— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana |
