(13 quotes found)
“Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say”
Karl Shapiro
“I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.”
Henry David Thoreau
“And ice, mast-high, came floating by, / As green as emerald.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.”
Bible
“It struck some object under the bridge. The mast broke off at the base.”
Stephen McInerny
“The mast may have broken her neck.”
“All the mast arms were delivered and the contractor has just about completed the underground conduit. They are expected to start installing the pole foundation in the second week of March ... and completion by July.”
Scott Brunner
“Hunters are doing an excellent job. The heavy mast crop kept the deer in the woods which made them less vulnerable.”
Jim Lane
“Miami-Dade fared a lot better than Broward and Palm Beach specifically because of the preponderance of mast arms.”
John Corcoran
“They are going down to check if the mast is still there.”
Richard Crockett