Masts Quotes

They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. - Bible

There are these inexpert American seamen, never in a naval battle before, on their ships waiting for their first fight. It's morning. They look across Cumberland Head and they can see the tops of the British masts above the trees. They are thinking -- Oh my God, what are we facing. - Howard Coffin

The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire. - Charles Dickens

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage. - William Bligh

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships. - Peter S. Beagle