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1 Then the spar was further secured by shrouds, stays, and backstays; thus providing a very respectable substitute for a mainmast.

2 A backstay floated dangling from it, stout rawhide rope, and I used this for lashing mast and keel together.

3 The men were sliding to the deck on backstays and running-gear, and the mates were throwing down coils of rope from the belaying-pins.

4 "And by the way those backstays are ripped out, and seeing how that mast is wabbling, this schooner is liable to be about as badly mixed up as the people are on board of her."

5 It did no good; the backstay was now farther away.

6 "Shanghaied!" he repeated as he reeled to the rail and caught at a backstay to steady himself.

7 The whole ship was like a lump of ice, and the fore-rigging ready to go by the board, with the lee shrouds and backstays torn away.

8 It has devised a way to race without a backstay - the system that tensions the rig - which gives it an aerodynamic advantage.

9 The ends of the lines were fastened either to the backstay or the taffrail, allowing them to pass over our finger, so that the moment a mackerel took the bait we could feel it.

10 They ransacked the cross-trees, and the engine-room, and the bowsprit; they explored the backstays, the stays, and the waist, but they found no stowaway.

11 This, with a few topmast and topgallant backstays cut away, and a few shot through our sails, is the only injury the Peacock has sustained.

12 “Ay,” added Tom, “and set all your muscles as taut as weather backstays.”

13 Her starboard backstay had been shot away, her topmast was wounded, though it still stood.

14 Seas raced up and crashed their bulk at us when, at the word, we strained together to drag the foreyards from the backstays.

15 “Haul taut fore and aft, my hearties,” shouted Leslie, balancing himself on the lee rail and grasping a backstay, as he anxiously watched the dancing boat.

16 They climbed everywhere, up or down, on a sail or its leach, a single rope or a backstay.

17 Yet he wondered why he could not reach out and grasp the backstay.

18 What the "backstay" is to the inhabitant of the district around Lydd, the stilts are to the lonely dwellers in the Landes.

19 I saw, however, that he was not really angry, and I fancy that I gained some credit with him by the way I had sprung on to the backstay.

20 A man scrambled on to the rail, and with an arm clasping a backstay hailed me: "Schooner ahoy!" he bawled, with a strong nasal twang in his cry.

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