There were better boats, but they were packed full, fore and aft, and the crowd going north was not fastidious: all it wanted was to get on the goldfields as soon as possible.
Rocky points and small islands broke the line of beach, and as they closed with it Aynsley climbed the fore rigging with his glasses.
But others tumble to my racket and suspicion me, When jest 'fore election I'm as good as I can be!
No matter what the past has been--jest watch me now and see How jest 'fore election I'm as good as I can be!
Most all the time the whole year round there ain't no flies on me, But jest 'fore election I'm as good as I can be!
A bit of the flesh is left in each structure, the fore half of one animal is carried into the yard, but the rest is prepared for food.
An unnamed spirit was next to appear, and at his command the fore part of the pig was stood upright in the winnower, and a stick was placed in each nostril.
Dark as it was I could just make out Bigley's actions, for I was in the fore part of the boat, and he before me.
A matter of missionaries commonly is to the fore as a cause of quarrel among nations which have the hardihood to prefer their own religions to ours.
Search was made below, both in the cabin and in the fore decks, and men were sent up aloft to see if he had secreted himself in the rigging; but all returned, stating he was nowhere to be found.
Went to git inter the wag’n, and he started ’fore I gath’red up the ribbins.
Why Jet’s mouth is no better than a hole made in the fore part of his head with a claw-hammer—and as for Jim Sparks, he’s got the face of a terrier dog.
There they sot, the bear and the captin, just so near that when they both reached forrards, they could jist about touch noses, and nother one not able to move any part on him, only excepten his upper part and fore paws.
Before he had passed between the fore legs of the sturdy roan he took one fearsome glance over the edge of the precipice.
In another, almost the whole mesentery was mortified and there was an anthrax or carbuncle at the upper fore part of the armpit.
She was almost hidden under a great cloud of smoke, and occasionally entirely hidden by spray, for a slight choppy head sea, which we had not noticed before when going slowly, was now covering us fore and aft with spray.
Take six of your men to the fore bridge and don't leave it till I give you orders, and kick everyone else out of it," he ordered, so up we climbed and kicked the two men still left there down the ladder.
The next moment, Haley was among the crew with a bound, knocking them like ten-pins away from the winders, and bidding them jump for the fore and main sheets, if they valued their lives.
Didn't get you'self any slickers, did you, 'fore you came aboard?
Kneeling at the fore of the vessel, shivering with cold, Michael strained all his senses for any sign of hidden rock looming up out of the grey, or sound of crashing surf upon the shore.
To the fore of the compound as well, there seemed little hope of stealth.
Once or twice, when the weather permitted, he climbed to the fore deck, whence he could scan a large part of the promenade deck on both the port and starboard sides.
Suddenly two cloaked figures emerged from the obscurity of the smoking-room and hurried to the transverse rail which guarded the forepart of the promenade deck.
He was standing on the open part of the main deck, close to the fore hold, when he heard English voices from the promenade deck high above his head.
Maseden affected to bend over and examine the horse's fore action, as though he suspected lameness or a loose shoe.
Otherwise, the forepart of the ship was untenanted save for Maseden himself and the slim, cloaked form which seemed to be peering aimlessly into the impenetrable wall of darkness ahead.
By reason of his position in the fore part of the vessel, Maseden could survey the bridge, chart-house and some part of the promenade deck.
We all scrambled back on the deck, and everybody, fore and aft, set to work with a will to obey the captain's orders.
I got up, and, slinging my glass over my shoulder, went up thefore rigging.
We had prepared the ship for action for some days by clearing away all bulkheads fore and aft, and sending everything not absolutely required below.
I fancied that I could make out the sails of a fore and aft vessel to leeward, but when I looked again I could see nothing of them.
I sang out an order to cut away topsail halyards, sheets, main and fore ties, peak halyards.
All hands had ample occupation the next day in unbending the remnants of our tattered canvas from the yards and in replacing it with a new suit of sails fore and aft, in reeving new running rigging, and in repairing the stern frame.
Even a winter gale of wind in those latitudes off the American coast must come to an end, and this, by the morning of the 5th, sufficiently abated to allow me to set the fore and main stay-sails.
Still the stout ship struggled bravely on; her lee-side pressed deep into the water, while torrents of foam broke over her weather-bow and deluged us fore and aft.
To set fire to our grenades and other fiery engines of destruction, and to heave them down below and to scatter them fore and aft, was the work of little more than a minute.
The hunters, however, knew the points at which the skin was thinnest, and drove their spears deep into the animal just behind the fore leg, while the boys shot their arrows at its mouth.
As Chebron finished speaking they were preparing for the night by laying down a few mats on the boards of the fore deck.
They had prepared for him to rise on his fore legs, and when his hind quarter suddenly rose in the air they were almost thrown from their baskets.
He was sniffing and growling and shaking his head and striking with both fore paws to free himself.
You'll be lonesomer 'fore I go near ye,' says Collar.
I doubt not but you receive many such Letters, both from Admirers and from Friends, not to mention Enemies, who are always to the fore when a Man or Woman rises by Talent or Learning above the dead level of the rest of Humanity.
And go on up that tree 'fore it gets so dark you can't see nuthin'!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fore" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
