"Halliard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it free from the halliard to hang for a wisp on the Horn; I have chased it north to the Lizard—ribboned and rolled and torn; I have spread its fold o'er the dying, adrift in a hopeless sea; I have hurled it swift on the slaver, and seen the ...
— Poems Every Child Should Know - The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library • Various
... universally known shanty see Whall, page 64. Although its musical form is that of a halliard shanty, it was always used for the capstan. I never heard it used for any other purpose than heaving the anchor. The large-sized notes given in the last bar are those which most sailors sing to me nowadays; ...
— The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties • Richard Runciman Terry |
