Students are not to speak any harsh words under the Pergola or "split poles" with friends, as this might lead to a failed friendship after graduation.

She paddled across the river, avoiding the wash of a four-masted warship, running under bare poles against the tide.

Then you must not pay us; we can scud, like the Pharaon, under bare poles.

We handed the trysail and lay under bare poles abeam to the seas.

If the wind pipes up any more, I reckon we'll be going too fast even under bare poles.

Even under bare poles she seemed on the point of flight.

Then they let the little vessel swing around and run in a south-easterly direction dead before the wind, under bare poles.

We were running before it under bare poles, yet the schooner fairly tore along.

She was too deep to have run long under bare poles.

She was riding under bare poles but for storm tops'ls.