"Reminds me," he said, "of that there hoss topgallant, which carried me one hundred miles twixt sun-up and sun-down."
"Tales from the Veld"
Ernest Glanville
Her maintopmast is reefed a third down; we have been long without topgallantmasts, being necessitated to take the topgallant rigging for running gear.
"The Naval Pioneers of Australia"
Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery
The sea was as still as an inland lake; the light trade-wind was gently and steadily breathing from astern; the dark-blue sky was studded with the tropical stars; there was no sound but the rippling of the water under the stem; and the sails were spread out wide and high-the two lower studding-sails stretching on either side far beyond the deck; the topmost studding-sails like wings to the topsails; the topgallant studding-sails spreading fearlessly out above them; still higher the two royal studding-sails, looking like two kites flying from the same string; and highest of all the little sky-sail, the apex of the pyramid, seeming actually to touch the stars and to be out of reach of human hand.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot