"Mainsheet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was responsible for that blunder, which in most countries would certainly have evoked a cry of betrayal, the mainsheet of Nelson's Victory would be all too inadequate as a penitential white sheet and far ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 10, 1916 • Various
... in mid-channel stopped her way, and the forward canvas was hauled down. A pull to windward on the mainsheet backed the big mainsail and drove the stern towards the dock, whereon a mob of naked brown men awaited the casting of shore lines. The starboard quarter grated against the piling, and the open stern windows overhung the stringpiece for a moment. ...
— Gold Out of Celebes • Aylward Edward Dingle |
