You bane forgat everything you seen, or overboard you go with yourfigurehead stove in!
Next year they built a clipper ship called the Jemsetgee Cursetgee for an East Indian potentate, who sent out an Oriental figurehead supposed to be a likeness of himself.
War craft and crew together were the very soul and body of strength and speed and daring skill, as, with defiant figurehead and glittering, shield-hung sides, they rode to battle joyously on the wild white horses of the mediaeval sea.
The figurehead may have had some relation to the original or intended name of the ship prior to her purchase for conversion.
The reconstructed hull-form (figure 6) shows the man's bust figurehead mentioned in the register, and the supporting head and trail mouldings employed in the packets and other American ships of the period.
The figurehead was then commonly painted in natural colors, to suit the form of head if a figure or a bust.
Netting quarter-deck rail is shown and a bust figurehead is indicated.
The ship's figurehead should have been discovered by some miracle, brought to the sorrowing widow, and set up in the garden in eternal remembrance of the dear departed.
For the leaders fully realized that it was by maintaining the Convention as a figurehead that they could continue the fiction that the Government {183} of France was not local, or Parisian, but national, or French.
Behind this figurehead the sections soon built up a new municipality or town council made up of delegates from the sections, and that varied in numbers at different times.
The Elmoran pointed her bow, and the long blade of the figurehead warrior's spear, toward Keegark.
The Elmoran ran alongside, with her Masai-warrior figurehead and the black cylinder on her catapult aft.
Gainsborough saw the power of the monarch transferred to the people, and the King become the wooden figurehead of the ship, instead of its Captain.
Gottschalk Thorwaldsen never thought to improve on a model, or change it in any way, or to model a figurehead himself.
The imperial figurehead then flees to the foreign country where he enjoys an empty title.
In any event he will be a figureheadin whose hand will not be vested political, financial and military power, which will be controlled by foreigners.
Even if we are willing to suffer the President to become a figurehead it will remain a question whether a responsible cabinet can ever be formed.
If not, then are we going to ask the President to form a responsible cabinet under a figurehead monarch?
I wanted a figurehead for my petition, and the figurehead I had chosen I could not get.
She looks like the figurehead of a ship (again quoting Mr. Dugald) and she isn't afraid of man or beast.
She always looked like the figurehead of a ship come to life, as Mr. Dugald had described her.
A figurehead monarch is, to adapt the saying of the west a fat porker, a guinea-pig, that is, good as an expensive ornament.
That blasted figurehead makes it, coming to scare folks away from the captain’s money.
Do you suppose the figurehead really walked about?
Ann glanced up from the strong brown hands holding the reins and saw that Jo was staring straight ahead as though he had not looked at the figurehead as he went by and was determined not to turn and look back at it afterward.
Modern steamers don’t have them now, very often, but the deep-sea men who are on a sailing vessel months at a time like to feel that they have a figurehead to watch and care for them while they are asleep.
The sailors think of the ship’s figurehead as a sort of guardian spirit that watches over the boat and protects it during storms.
Ann watched them, and as she stood in the doorway she noticed that the figurehead on the bow had completely lost its twilight menace, as her father had foretold.
When he retired, many a sea captain took the figurehead from his ship and nailed it over the door of his home, for he felt a real affection for it.
None of them stopped to look up into the face of the figurehead that towered over them as they ran by.
The sound was very near the group by the figureheadwhen it stopped.
A portrait of a man playing the violin hung out, in massive gilt, over the table, like a ship's figurehead projecting over a wharf's end.
Do you think the man whose face was carved into a figurehead was really Holger Danske?
And then HE, whose father belonged to my calling, the son of the figurehead carver, he whom we have ourselves seen, with his silver hairs and his broad shoulders, he whose name is spoken of in all lands!
And, in fact, considering what a great deed was to be done, could any advice be wiser than this which Jason received from the figurehead of his vessel?
Jason was delighted with the oaken image and gave the carver no rest until it was completed and set up where a figurehead has always stood, from that time to this, in the vessel's prow.
Orpheus thrummed away briskly and the galley slid at once into the sea, dipping her prow so deeply that the figurehead drank the wave with its marvelous lips, and rising again as buoyant as a swan.
He squinted sourly at the Cap'n, then at the men of Smyrna, and then his eyes fell upon the figurehead and its fatuous smile.
It would be difficult to exaggerate the importance of the services he rendered to Wilkes and to the cause of which Wilkes was the figurehead by his work in the Middlesex election.
He was but the foolish figurehead of a fanatical outburst, and when he was set aside he was forgotten.
Truly the kindness of the Pope and the zeal of his artist were without bound; for with the figurehead came a jewell made in the form of a brooch carven in gold which represented it in petto.
He told him also that the galleon was to be called the San Cristobal from my patron saint; and also that so her figurehead should bear the image of the Christ into English waters the first of all things that came from my Province.
We had not any christening of the galleon, for the blessing of the Holy Father was already on the figurehead of the ship and encompassed it round about.
I shall provide the figurehead for the San Cristobal myself.
Also he has given him as a souvenir a brooch wrought by the same master-hand, the figurehead wrought in petto.
Last of all we took the great figurehead of silver and gold, which Benvenuto had wrought and which the Pope had blessed, and placed it on the shore beside the rest.
That was the jewel that Benvenuto Cellini made in duplicate when he wrought the figurehead for the Pope's galley.
In this action a dire disaster had almost befallen us, and Christendom too, for a shot struck us athwart the bow and so loosened the girding of our precious figurehead that almost it had fallen into the sea.
The only difference between the two is, that the figurehead of the pirate is a griffin's head, painted scarlet, that of my schooner is a female, painted white.
And to the right of the door, near a figurehead representing a gorgeous mermaid, were added the words: Messmates Always Welcome.
Don't you know an honestfigurehead when you see it?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "figurehead" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
