instudding-sails

Updated: May 4, 2025

"The sooner the better, Mr Forster. He's but a 'rum customer, and 'a hard hitter' by all accounts. Clear up the decks, and beat to quarters." The strange vessel came down with such rapidity that, by the time the captain's orders were obeyed, she was not more than two miles distant. "There's 'instudding-sails; and in devilish good style too!" observed Captain Oughton.

Frederick Marryat - Newton Forster