Lexicographical Neighbors of Moonsails
Literary usage of Moonsails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
""And how I'd like to take you around the Horn on a ship with moonsails!"
he lamented the impossibility. Captain Omar Chapman, of Newcastle, ..."
2. A Sailor's Garland by John Masefield (1908)
"... and your moonsails so high, At the sound of the call they must all be let fly.
But now, my brave boys, comes the best of the fun: " All hands about ship ..."
3. The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman, Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas Biggs Harned, Horace Traubel, Oscar Lovell Triggs (1902)
"an ample Ship, carrying even her moonsails." Present reading in 1881. I Hear
America Singing. [I., p. 13.] 1860: Chants Democratic, No. ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1893)
"... with an additional motive power in the shape of moonsails and skyscrapers—no
fictions in those racing days—which our own riggers never adopted. ..."
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