It really was a bit more drama and the reality of life aboard a square-rigger.    From Wordnik.com.  [badger Diary Entry] Reference

Down opposite the fourth pier, a meat vendor was selling sandwiches or something to the crew of the square-rigger that was tied up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic of Recluce]

His doctor recommended an ocean voyage, little expecting him to sign on as a seaman aboard a square-rigger bound for California via Cape Horn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Best] Reference

I dont know much about sailing ships, but I guess youd call this thing a square-rigger, because it looked like the sails dropped down from horizontal poles that were positioned about halfway up the masts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pendragon: Book Eight: The Pilgrims of Rayne] Reference

In the late 1930s, when the young Eric Newby signed on for an around-the-world voyage on a working square-rigger, war clouds were gathering all over the world as nations rearmed, and newer, faster vessels were being launched.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Best] Reference

Wicks was no hand with a square-rigger, and he had shown it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrecker] Reference

Aboard a square-rigger, keel-hauling was practiced from the main yardarm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Buccaneer] Reference

Ahoy, matey, there be olde nautical lore in which a ship was a square-rigger of three or more masts.    From Wordnik.com.  [CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries] Reference

As for the other thing, it's something like this: By the sound it was a small craft — no square-rigger.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Goboto Night] Reference

Finally, and almost imperceptibly, the old wooden square-rigger had been transformed into a modern ocean liner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Mankind] Reference

"Then keep your eye on the mizzen-royal," said the old man, as if he were forgetting that we weren't a square-rigger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man Overboard!] Reference

At the end of two hours they came upon a square-rigger with her decks just awash, and six men clinging to her rigging.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell] Reference

Once a sick sailor drew three pictures for me and set down every stay and brace and sail -- square-rigger, schooner, and sloop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ragged Edge] Reference

But Padre Francesco knit his bushy brows, for he thought the sailor was making game of him, who had been boatswain on a square-rigger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whosoever Shall Offend] Reference

Bone went to sea as an apprentice in the City of Florence, an old-time square-rigger, at the age of fifteen; he has been at sea ever since.    From Wordnik.com.  [“The Man-o’-War’s ’Er ’Usband”] Reference

Others postulate that a three-masted square-rigger carried nine yards of sail, three on each mast, so the whole nine yards would mean ` the sails were fully set. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 3] Reference

In still earlier days he had been in deep water and had been boatswain of a square-rigger, yet there was nothing about his appearance now to show that he had been a sailor man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whosoever Shall Offend] Reference

When all three sheets of a sail on an old square-rigger were allowed to run free, they were said to be "in the wind," and the ship would lurch and stagger like a person inebriated.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 2] Reference

Old wreckage of every description, ancient crockery, and even a water-logged, old square-rigger that must have sunk years before were brought one day as far as the surface by the stout wire warp.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell] Reference

By the time he was seventeen he had made one voyage to Rio de Janeiro in a big square-rigger out of Portland; and so smart and capable an A.B. was he for his years that the Old Man took a shine to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley] Reference

"I tell you, sor, it's a treat to see her put this ship about, blow high, blow low," Kennedy remarked admiringly; "though how the mischief she learned the way to handle a square-rigger it puzzles the sowl of me to know.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise] Reference

Why, you and I have sailed with men before the mast who had their master's certificates in their pockets, -- English Board of Trade certificates, too, -- who could work a double altitude if you would lend them a sextant and give them a look at the chronometer, as well as many a man who commands a big square-rigger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man Overboard!] Reference

Sailing by and large left an inexperienced helmsman in less danger of being taken aback, which means to catch the wind suddenly on the wrong side of the sails, which can lead to a serious situation, especially in a square-rigger. in the doldrums Figuratively, when we're in the doldrums, we are ` stuck in a condition of boredom or depression. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 2] Reference

"As for the other thing, it's something like this: By the sound it was a small craft -- no square-rigger.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son Of The Sun] Reference

You'll have to do all the high an 'lofty tumblin' -- an 'how in blue blazes us two're goin' to sail a square-rigger into port is a mystery to me. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates] Reference

A square-rigger before a quartering gale, and now you're shaking in the wind -- yes, and likely to be aback, if you don't watch out. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Wide Courses] Reference