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Do you know that we have 1.4 million cellular radio masts deployed worldwide?
These 1.4 million cellular radio masts, or base stations, consume a lot of energy.
His fingers find the pillowcase's sailing masts.
I'm sure for that portion of the film-loving public that tie their masts to the good ship Buster Keaton, there is only one answer - any one of his sound films.
But now, in the receding tide, Americans are beginning to see not only that those with taller masts had been lifted far higher, but also that many of the smaller boats had been dashed to pieces in their wake.
As often as the sun swept over its daily arc, the masts were populated with sailors whose feet itched and couldn't hold still on the planking of the deck below!
Its masts trembled down to their blocks, and swirls of smoke could barely squeeze through the narrow funnels.
The electric light suddenly went out, and two enormous waterspouts crashed onto the deck of the frigate, racing like a torrent from stem to stern, toppling crewmen, breaking spare masts and yardarms from their lashings.
The stumps of three masts, chopped off two feet above the deck, indicated a flooding ship that had been forced to sacrifice its masting.
But this long, iron cylinder lying in the bay, with no masts or funnels--what were they to make of it?
Carefully examining this mass, I could identify the swollen outlines of a ship shorn of its masts, which must have sunk bow first.
Seventy-four years ago to the day, at this very spot in latitude 47 degrees 24' and longitude 17 degrees 28', this ship sank after a heroic battle; its three masts gone, water in its hold, a third of its crew out of action, it preferred to go to the bottom with its 356 seamen rather than surrender; and with its flag nailed up on the afterdeck, it disappeared beneath the waves to shouts of 'Long live the Republic!'"
"What sort of craft is it, Ned?""From its rigging and its low masts," the Canadian replied, "I bet it's a warship.
Those poor men leaped up into the shrouds, clung to the masts, writhed beneath the waters.
"I think," said Monsieur Lheureux to the chemist, who was passing to his place, "that they ought to have put up two Venetian masts with something rather severe and rich for ornaments; it would have been a very pretty effect."
At the daily rising of this great curtain of nature, at the present time, scores of white sails and sluggish vessels are seen thickening on the water, with that air of life which denotes the neighborhood to the metropolis of a great and flourishing empire; but to Henry and the peddler it displayed only the square yards and lofty masts of a vessel of war, riding a few miles below them.
It was a dainty cutter of about thirty tons, very swift by the rake of her masts and the lines of her bow.
And you must know besides, that the true knight-errant, though he may see ten giants, that not only touch the clouds with their heads but pierce them, and that go, each of them, on two tall towers by way of legs, and whose arms are like the masts of mighty ships, and each eye like a great mill-wheel, and glowing brighter than a glass furnace, must not on any account be dismayed by them.
Beyond Portsmouth the sea was covered with vessels whose masts, like a forest of poplars despoiled by the winter, bent with each breath of the wind.
Did ever a vessel come out of Toulon as my 38-gun frigate did from Plymouth last year, with her masts rolling about until her shrouds were like iron bars on one side and hanging in festoons upon the other?
"Frenchy has his fore and maintop-gallant masts about equal," said my father.
She had ingots of silver along her yards and bowsprit, and a bit of silver plate at the truck of the masts.
They were light and active, and Pencroft, as a sailor, accustomed to run up the masts and shrouds, was able to give them lessons.
However, as the bank of trees hid the shore, it was possible that a vessel, especially if deprived of her masts, might lie close to the land and thus be invisible to Herbert.
However, it would be surprising, even in this case, that some of the masts or spars should not have been thrown on the beach, out of reach of the waves."
Nothing therefore which threw any light on the supposed wreck could be found on this shore, yet an object of any importance, such as the hull of a ship, would have been seen directly, or any of her masts and spars would have been washed on shore, just as the chest had been, which was found twenty miles from here.
Lastly, yards, masts, boom, spars, oars, etc., were all furnished by the first week in October, and it was agreed that a trial trip should be taken round the island, so as to ascertain how the vessel would behave at sea, and how far they might depend upon her.
The question was, whether a chimney could be discerned between the two masts of the vessel, which was now at a distance of only five miles.
Nothing could be seen of the brig, not even her masts.
However, the two masts, which had been broken and escaped from the shrouds and stays came up, and with their sails, some furled and the others spread.