"Slatting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Three Crows all that day and shared their dinner with them on the quarterdeck when, wearied to death with the strain of wrestling with the slatting canvas and ponderous boom, they at last threw themselves upon the hamper of "cold snack" I had brought off with me and pledged the success of the venture in tin dippers ...
— A Deal in Wheat - And Other Stories of the New and Old West • Frank Norris
... the boat none too soon, for the whistling of a premonitory gust filled the air. Quickly through the water strode the camel, and, with his lariat in my hand, I plumped down upon the stern overhang just as the mainsail went slatting back and forth across the boat and everybody was ducking his head. In the confusion, nobody ...
— The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton • Wardon Allan Curtis |
