1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick. But gulp down your tears and hie <span class="searchmatch">aloft</span> to the royal-mast with your hearts; for your friends who have gone before are...
Moby Dick: In tempestuous times like these, after everything above and <span class="searchmatch">aloft</span> has been secured, nothing more can be done but passively to await the issue...
Moby Dick: I won't smoke dirty pipes like Stubb, but I like cigars, and here's nine hundred and sixty of them; so here goes Flask <span class="searchmatch">aloft</span> to spy 'em out."...
into a side tributary. “Oh, no you don't,” said Trish. Keeping herself <span class="searchmatch">aloft</span> with her left hand, she sketched out a few runes with her right. She curled...
to reef topsails, we were so top-heavy that we had to swing each other <span class="searchmatch">aloft</span> in bowlines; and we ignorantly furled the skirts of our jackets into the...
through the darkness of the night, which obscured the spars and rigging <span class="searchmatch">aloft</span>, the two — ship and whale, seemed yoked together like colossal bullocks...
(obsolete) <span class="searchmatch">aloft</span>; above the ground 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published...
glass at this sight, Ahab quickly revolved in his pivot-hole, crying, "<span class="searchmatch">Aloft</span> there, and rig whips and buckets to wet the sails; — Malays, sir, and after...
his own hands he rigged a nest of basketed bowlines; and sending a hand <span class="searchmatch">aloft</span>, with a single sheaved block, to secure to the main-mast head, he received...
Forest and Stream, volume 73, page 906: Here a stately giant pine holding <span class="searchmatch">aloft</span> its bushy, darkly-sheenish canopy of green, while nestling to one side a...