We struck the guns into the hold for the better Ballasting of the vessel, got studding-sail booms aloft, overhauled her suits of canvas and found a great square sail which proved of inestimable importance in light winds and in running.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
Fine concrete gutters along the curves, such Ballasting as one sees on the North-Western Railway.
"Sketches of the East Africa Campaign"
Robert Valentine Dolbey
Then, racing up the beach once more to the shelter of the bluff, he knelt there to plant his lantern in the sand, Ballasting it securely with rocks, flung his jacket down beside it, and ran back to the water's edge again.
"The Belovéd Traitor"
Frank L. Packard