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1 The first thing we did was to clew up the three top-gallant-sails.
2 They ought to clew up everything, and she might be got off.
3 We must clew up the topsails while the men can get upon the yards.
4 Let the riptyles clew up the corners of their mouths to their eyebrows, now!
5 Then it was ''haul down'' and '' clew up '' royals, flying-jib, and studding-sails, all at once.
6 The order was given to clew up the courses and take a reef in the topsails.
7 Let run and clew up , forward and aft.
8 This occasioned as to clew up all our sails, and presently after six water-spouts were seen.
9 Quickly, then, I ordered the watch as it rushed aft, to clew up the mainsail;-butalas!
10 What was their astonishment, at length, to see her clew up her sails and heave to!
11 This turned out to be Leonard Lewis, the young man who had helped me to clew up the fore-topsail.
13 In the darkness we could hear the work aloft going on as yards were run down, sheets let go, and sails clew up and gasketed.
14 Not a moment was to be lost, so I gave orders to clew up all our canvas and to let go the best bow anchor.
15 Mind, I don't say the English aren't handy in a ship and that they wouldn't clew up a topsail clean at the edge of hell.
16 The captain immediately ordered the sails to be clewed up and handed.
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