| These attractions provide a suitable skyline for the short-stay traveller to decide when the watery sun is safely over the yardarm. |
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| Budd innocently exalts, even as he is shanghaied and set upon a path that leads to the yardarm. |
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| Far more frightening to him than dangling from an ice-glazed yardarm 150 feet over the Southern Ocean was being unable to choose his own destiny. |
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| Avast, ye scurvy dogs, Kerry will swing from the highest yardarm! |
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| It was said that an ordinary seaman on the Admiral's flagship publicly disagreed with this conclusion and was promptly hanged from the yardarm for his insubordination. |
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| In the 15th century it was flown from a pole rising above the fighting top, later from the yardarm or topmast. |
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| On occasion, the simple flagpole is fitted with a yardarm or gaff to increase the number of flags that may be flown from it. |
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| It is probable that the lower yard was also useful in discharging supplies by yardarm tackle. |
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| I rarely drink spirits in fact, and, leaving aside the occasional pint or glass of wine with lunch, I seldom touch a drop before the sun dips below the yardarm. |
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| Navy ships not underway fly the union jack on the jackstaff. The union jack is also flown from a yardarm to denote that a general court-martial is in session. |
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| In 1797 sailors at The Nore mutinied against their conditions, and their leader, Richard Parker, was hanged from the yardarm of his ship. |
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| She grinned and flicked her eyebrow, letting her eyes follow his progress up the rigging and to the top yardarm, were he settled into the tarpaulin for his watch. |
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| Working high up a mast on the end of a yardarm isolated in the expanse of the southern ocean, it was an uncanny experience to eyeball one of these creatures. |
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| The Captain. They're going to keelhaul him. They have him tied to the yardarm. The crew have mutinied. |
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| And although we abandoned flogging as a tradition in the British Navy we would reinstate flogging, and he would be tied to the yardarm and flogged. |
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| Gin's cocktails became vodka's cocktails, championed by those who ought to have known better, consumed by the masses who had no idea what a martini was, much less a yardarm. |
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| The photograph was clearly taken in the daytime, which makes you wonder what they find in their trousers to compare once the sun is over the yardarm. |
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| Plenty to think about over an all-inclusive gin and tonic as the sun sank below the yardarm. |
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| After Blackbeard was killed in battle, his head was cut off and tied as a trophy to the yardarm of HMS Pearl. |
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| The quieter side of Corfu THE sun was most definitely over the yardarm as the young Greek waiter guided our small motorboat into a mooring space on the simple wooden jetty. |
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| And there are few of us who relish the idea of slaving in the kitchen preparing a nice dinner for ourselves or guests as the sun sets under the yardarm. |
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| Another legend alleges that a common sailor on the flagship, tried to warn Shovell that the fleet was off course but Shovell had him hanged at the yardarm for inciting mutiny. |
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| YardArm's tech should be ready in a prototype form in 60 days, Jim Schaff, vice president of marketing for Yardarm Technologies, said. |
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| As per the report, Yardarm Technologies has formed a new technology for dispatchers to know when a police officer's weapon has been fired. |
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