I, however, first set the fore, and then the main-topsail, and kept her before it to avoid the risk of the seas Pooping us.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
Then came a huge Pooping wave, that all but swept the decks.
"Annie o' the Banks o' Dee"
Gordon Stables
We were bowling along before the wind, it is true; but, the heavy rolling sea that had been worked up in a brief space of time was travelling at a much faster rate, and there was every fear that one of the monster billows which each moment curled up threateningly in our wake would hurl itself on board, thus Pooping the vessel and rendering her altogether unmanageable, if not a hopeless wreck-such a mass of water as the big waves carried in their frowning crests being more than sufficient to swamp us instanter, and, mayhap, bury the poor Denver City deep in the depths below at one fell blow.
"The Island Treasure"
John Conroy Hutcheson