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As for Jo, she would have gone up and sat on the maintop jib, or whatever the high thing is called, made friends with the engineers, and tooted on the captain's speaking trumpet, she'd have been in such a state of rapture.

In his indignation at what he termed their effeminacy, he would swear that he would never take them to sea again "without having Fly-market on the forecastle, Covent-garden on the poop, and a cool spring from Canada in the maintop. "

He climbed to the maintop And then he began to pray.

Sir Humphrey Gilbert, on his voyage back to England after formally claiming St John's in Newfoundland in 1583, spotted a lion-like creature with "glaring eyes", and a Norwegian missionary in 1734 claimed to have seen "a terrible sea-animal which raised itself so high above the water that its head reached above our maintop".

Operatic roles include Belmonte Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Cassio Otello in the Tivoli Garden, Copenhagen, Idomeneo at L'Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing, Tamino Die Zauberflote at Limoges Opera and Maintop Billy Budd at the Royal Danish Opera.

The town's red-roofed buildings cover the waterfront and three steep hills--Denmark Hill, Synagogue Hill, and Government Hill (old-time sailors looking up from water level called them Foretop, Maintop, and Mizzenmast).

Meanwhile, in decreeing that ships in the kingdom of Great Britain "shall bear on their maintops the red cross, commonly called St George's cross, and the white cross, commonly called St Andrew's cross", James upset the English.