On forecastle and on poop Mount guns, as best you may deem.
He went forward and looked into the men's deck-house, then dropped into the little forecastle and peered round him.
He still preserved the forecastle faculties, and carried the eye, whilst he could bend the ear, of a sailor.
They searched the cabins, and, lastly, they entered the little forecastle in which no man had as yet slept.
The seamen on the forecastle eyed him, and murmured one to another.
He opened his mouth to let out a cloud, smiling at some forecastle recollections, which perhaps caused him to regret that his daughter was present, for he found Glew a good listener.
The schooner had been liberally provisioned with fresh meat and loaves of bread for the forecastle use, and, so far, the men had sat down to a fresh mess every day.
Even with thick shoes any attempt to walk upon deck up to the forecastle was soon impracticable, and the poop, simply because its door is elevated somewhat above the level of the hold, is now the only available standing-place.
In less than an hour afterwards I saw Huntly let himself down by the forestays and clamber along to the forecastle where he joined the group of sailors, and I lost sight of him.
Such of the crew as had saved their hammocks have been told to place them under the forecastle where they would have to stow themselves as best they could, their ordinary quarters being absolutely uninhabitable.
The sick man whom they had left in the forecastle was a new hand who had shipped at Kingston.
And that forecastle was so saturated with the plague that to enter it meant almost certain infection.
The minister's head and shoulders appeared at the forecastle companion.
Lanoix leaped over the iron rail which separated the forecastle from the after part of the vessel.
They swarmed into the forecastleamidst fierce cheers, the rattle of musketry, and the hiss of flames.
At last Page was forced into the boat and brought to the Duke, where he was ordered to the forecastle in the bilboes (leg irons sliding upon a long, iron bar).
After the day's work was done we went down into the forecastle and ate our supper, but not a word was spoken.
The smoke of the fire--which seemed to have broken out in the forecastle and had been confined to it by the efforts of the sailors from the destroyer--had now almost cleared away, and we went forward to the galley.
From its forecastle a black column of smoke suddenly shot up, followed by a great lick of flame.
He went forward, the centre of an attentive and rotating circle, and, sadly out of breath, was bestowed in the forecastle and urged to listen to reason.
For a few moments he stared about in mystification; he was certainly ill, and no doubt the forecastle was an hallucination.
The captain, in his natty uniform of blue and gold, stepped forth upon the bridge to take command, and raised his banded cap in recognition of the constant cheer from the host ashore and the throng of blue shirts on the forecastle head.
Rayner was on the forecastle near Ben Twinch, both endeavouring to pierce the veil which surrounded the supposed privateer.
Scarcely had they been fired when an officer, springing into the forecastle of the French ship, waved his hat and shouted that they had struck.
Fortunately, the Thisbe still answered her helm, and the crew were endeavouring to make sail, when the enemy ranged up on the starboard quarter, her forecastle being covered with men, evidently intending to board.
The forecastle was a ruin; the bulwark and defences of all kinds were shattered to pieces; and the masts and spars were stuck full of arrows.
From the Turkish forecastle the arquebusiers at first severely galled the Christians.
The Turks had neglected to take this precaution; the efficiency of their forecastle guns was therefore greatly impaired.
The left prow of the Pacha towered high above the lower forecastle of Don John, and his galley's peak was thrust through the rigging of the other vessel until its point was over the fourth rowing-bench.
I was on the forecastle with Dick, when I caught sight of a slight ripple which played over the surface.
At length, one day, when seated in the forecastle with Dick, I uttered several in succession, highly pleased with my own proficiency.
I had got nearly to the forecastle when the matches were applied to the guns, and as they were discharged a shower of shot came hissing across the deck.
The force of the explosion shattered the forecastle deck.
Accordingly, when the boatswain of the "Savage" was seen upon the forecastle wildly waving his arms, it was taken as an evidence of surrender; and the fire slackened until his voice could be heard.
Her heavy antagonist was close alongside, and towered high above her, so that the marines on the quarter-deck and forecastle of the Englishman were on a level with the leading blocks of the Yankee.
On the quarter-deck and forecastlewere eight long nines.
Three days later, the jackies from the forecastle of the "United States" were entertained.
Then the poets of the forecastle set to work, and ground out verses that would prove particularly obnoxious to the enemy.
Late at night, the sailors returned to their ship, elated with an ovation the like of which has never since been tendered to the humble heroes of the forecastle or the ranks.
From her quarter-deck and forecastle groups of officers and seamen were watching the on-coming of the American frigate.
Much exhausted, the sailors sat down to their dinner on the forecastle at noon, while the three British officers spread their mess amidships.
On theforecastle were mounted four nine-pound guns.
The Americans crowded on the forecastle and in the tops, where they continued the battle with musketry and hand-grenades, with such murderous effect that the British were driven entirely from the upper deck.
In the forecastle were three different elements of discord.
As the Leopard went off on her course, considerably shaken by the fresh breeze which had stirred up a smart sea, the acting captain of the tug saw that all the men who had been on the forecastle had disappeared, with a single exception.
Christy followed him to the forecastle of the tug, where a rather heavy gun was mounted, which took up most of the space.
But he had not been gone five minutes before the report of a cannon shook the hull of the Leopard, and the pilot saw that it was on the forecastle of the tug.
He did not seem even to observe what his companion was doing, though the engineer had been driven into the forecastle in plain sight from the window of the pilot-house.
Jack saw the danger and dodged, falling backward to avoid a concussion which he knew would otherwise be fearful, coming as it would from one of the best forecastle boxers of his time.
The forecastle and steward's pantry, Stephen Spike, are poor schools to send women to l'arn language in.
The men were still in heavy sleep, lying about the decks, for they avoided the small and crowded forecastle in that warm climate, and the night was apparently at its deepest hour.
But I do not intend to leave the forecastle without some one on it to answer a hail.
But no sooner had he heard that the united fleets were making ready for a decisive battle than his moribund fires rose from their ashes, and he dreamed that he was calling up the crew in the forecastle of the SantÃsima Trinidad.
On the forecastle was mounted the latest model breech-loading cannon, very heavy of barrel and narrow of bore, a weapon that would figure in the Universal Exhibition of 1867.
Just then, leaning over the forecastle railing, I saw Ned Land below me, one hand grasping the martingale, the other brandishing his dreadful harpoon.
Sometimes bending over the forecastle railings, sometimes leaning against the sternrail, I eagerly scoured that cotton-colored wake that whitened the ocean as far as the eye could see!
And as he came back from the forecastle he heard Captain Meredith's quiet voice.
They could not see the bridge clearly, and the forecastle was swallowed up in the blank opacity of the mist.
Presently out of the little forecastle emerged a stout man in a canvas apron and sporting a large well-nourished moustache.
He felt it with his hands and discovered that it was one of the heavy cast-iron bollards which were mounted on either side of the forecastle head.
The other I observed upon the forecastle as she anchored.
The indignant apparition in the forecastle scuttle gradually sank from view like the phantoms in old-fashioned grand opera, and was replaced by a lumbering creature in a blue jersey, with curling blond hair, and carrying a bucket of soap-suds.
He saw steam jetting from the forecastle and that told him they were heaving up the anchor.
You cannot understand his impulses and moods and grievances till you see them from a forecastle point of view.
Some years ago, a young scholar was led to step forth from his natural sphere into the forecastle of a merchantman.
Captains and mates will not now-a-days follow that lead, because they cannot trust their men, because with every emergency the morale of the forecastle is utterly gone.
The man made some reply, and ran towards the forecastle to squat upon the deck and thump upon the hatch with his fists, saying something with great rapidity of speech, the only words Carey could grasp being Dan and mumkull.
At half-past nine o'clock at night the look-out man on the forecastle called out "Breakers ahead.
Tired by what he had gone through before entering the packet, the pilot lay down in the forecastle to sleep.
He may, and often does, wade to his bunk through water, and the forecastle is too often a miserable hole, full of dirt and filth, where the men are packed like herrings.
So old and ill-constructed are some of these colliers, that in rough weather the forecastle is deluged with water.
This forecastle is very small, and so low that no person of ordinary stature can stand upright in it.
But as perhaps fifty of these whale-bone whales are harpooned for one cachalot, some philosophers of the forecastle have concluded that this positive havoc has already very seriously diminished their battalions.
Down into the forecastle then, down with ye, I'll keep ye there till ye're sick of it.
All night a wide-awake watch was kept by all the officers, forward and aft, especially about the forecastle scuttle and fore hatchway; at which last place it was feared the insurgents might emerge, after breaking through the bulkhead below.
Extending it upon the forecastle deck, he now proceeds cylindrically to remove its dark pelt, as an African hunter the pelt of a boa.
But the forecastle was not very light, and it was very easy to step over into a dark corner when you ate it.
My last ship was the Maagt van Eukhuysen, and though her forecastle raised a mutiny among us for its badness, I tell you, mynheer, 'twas as punch is to stale cold water compared to this.
The boatswain, Jans, was on the forecastle attending the fore: Arents stood on the quarter-deck.
This was not strange, for as I did not know the Dutch words, I called it topgallant forecastle in English.
How does my forecastle show to your English prejudice?
Finally they dived like rabbits into the forecastle hatch.
I could imagine theforecastle filled with the desperate men who had beaten off the Oyama.
No man can be a sailor, or know what sailors are, unless he has lived in the forecastle with them--turned in and out with them, eaten of their dish and drank of their cup.
It was our morning watch; when, soon after the day began to break, a man on the forecastle called out, "Land ho!
It is perfectly proper that the men should live in a different part of the vessel from the officers; and if the forecastle is made large and comfortable, there is no reason why the crew should not live there as well as in any other part.
The next little diversion, was a battle on the forecastle one afternoon, between the mate and the steward.
In the forenoon watches below, our forecastle looked like the workshop of what a sailor is,--a Jack at all trades.
There was no need of calling all hands, for we had all been hanging about the forecastle the whole forenoon, and were ready for a start upon the first sign of a breeze.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forecastle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: beak; bow; compartment; figurehead; nose; rostrum; stem
