yardarm to yardarm

Example Sentences

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“We shall have to fight it out, yardarm to yardarm, if the pirates so choose, or maybe they think fit to board us,” muttered the first mate.

From The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley by Kingston, William Henry Giles

We were now exchanging broadsides yardarm to yardarm, but the drubbing they had already received seemed to dishearten the Frenchmen.

From The Rival Crusoes by Kingston, William Henry Giles

He had remarked the two ships remaining hotly engaged, yardarm to yardarm out of the line, and he had never lost sight of them altogether.

From True Blue by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Slowly and cautiously he slipped from yardarm to yardarm, approaching nearer and nearer to the deck; at last he reached it, still carrying the child with a firm grasp.

From Georgie's Present Tales of Newfoundland by Brightwell, Miss

Had the French mustered twice their numbers, and could they have got fairly alongside of them, yardarm to yardarm, they supposed that they could have thrashed them, and probably would have done so.

From True Blue by Kingston, William Henry Giles