"It was climbing over the taffrail, Sir-" "Ah!"
"The Ghost Pirates"
William Hope Hodgson
I turned sharply, and saw something peering over the taffrail.
"The Ghost Pirates"
William Hope Hodgson
There lies the land right over the taffrail, or a little on the larboard-quarter; for this gale has come from the south east, and here are we doomed to beat about, like the Flying Dutchman, before our port, without a chance of reaching it.
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston