upper-and-lower

Updated: July 19, 2026

All this time the wind, out of the north-west, was breezing up. The old familiar harp-chords of a rising gale were strumming along the rigging, and the men, I verily believe from lack of practice, were particularly slow at their work. "It would be better if the upper-and-lower top-sails are set so that we can heave to," Margaret suggested.

Jack London - The Mutiny of the Elsinore