Again he dived, the fire in the forepeak burned up brightly, and savory smells began to ascend therefrom.
Waynsford literally hustled them into the forepeak and shut the hatch.
Already the forepeak was flooded to a depth of three feet.
Nevertheless, even for these weather-hardened seamen, it cannot have been altogether pleasant penned up in sopping clothes in a dark forepeak with an unseen cutlass waving about in their midst and seizure pending.
Under the ladder in the forepeak there was a potato locker extending from side to side, and under this, extending above a foot or more before it, was the concealment.
How kern ye to be down in the forepeak at all, my joker?
Some clairvoyant gleam told me the forepeak hatch was wide open now.
If the forepeak went as low as the vessel's floor, then I calculated there would not be less than fifteen tons of coal in it.
There was a forepeak forward in the bows, and the casks went stowed to the bulkhead of it; the top of this bulkhead was open four feet from the upper deck, and on holding the lanthorn over and putting my head through I saw a quantity of coals.
The revolutionists were scattered from the forepeak to the break of the poop.
A group of natives slept on the forepeak of the Pole Star, while a single member of the crew walked slowly from port to starboard and back again, holding the anchor watch.
The quarter-deck was shadowed with climbing Russians; the forepeak and waist rocked with their feet as they searched about for survivors.
The muffled Russians on the forepeak moved about in the gloom like walruses that had climbed aboard.
A Russian forward sang out a warning, leaning over the forepeak rail and pointing toward the anchor chain.
The revolutionists gathered on the forepeak had discovered the smoke over the starboard rail, and pointed and muttered as they realized its import.
The shot he fired exploded against the break of the forepeak and missed the open forecastle companion.
The leader sprang to theforepeak and called a loud order.
The two seamen, who had found a tie in common, strode to the forepeak of the whaler, lighted their pipes from the same match, and stared out over the dark velvet of the North Pacific.
A dock rat, who had been shamming sickness during the voyage, thrust out a frowsy head from the forepeak and said: "The crew beat him up.
They swarmed over the forepeak and pointed excitedly.
A double lookout was maintained from forepeak and quarter-deck, and the horizon was closely scanned by Marr and Whitehouse.
The Russians on the forepeak shouted warnings, waves came over the jib boom and the forecastle, and the churning vortex of cross currents and storm dashed the ship like a chip in a whirlpool, while the snow fell in circling clouds.
Drunken natives staggered from the poop and swarmed about the waist and forepeak of the ship.
Then there came a call from the Look Out near us, the dark patch changed to thick smoke, and out of the haze into the blaze of my searchlight slid the high forepeak of a destroyer.
The range was down to 1,000 yards when he loosed a torpedo, and at that very precise instant a shell, ricochetting upwards, caught him close to the water line of his high forepeak and burst in his vitals.
While the fellows kept the hatch of the forepeak closed the smoke could hardly filter through into the forecastle.
The impulse was to dash into the forepeak and so plunge overboard, flinging away all caution, but before their palsied muscles could respond, the behavior of Blackbeard held them irresolute and curious.
Blast it, Jack, my hearty, stock us up and we could lie tucked in the forepeak for a month o' Sundays.
The plan was to emerge through the forepeak in the very bows of the ship where a scuttle was let into the deck.
They hypothecate a condition in which utter promiscuity prevailed.
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I lowered then the lamp the whole drift of its lanyard, and saw that the forepeak was more than half full of water already.
I knew there was no other bulkhead in the ship but the collision bulkhead separating the forepeak from the forehold.
After opening the forepeak hatch I heard splashing in there.
This 'tabernacle' with us stood a little less than two feet above the forepeak deck, and the mast had been broken at some ten feet above it.
There's a nice little forepeak and a bunk in it at her sarvice.
Why not return to the forepeakand finish out the night?
Feared ye'll find the forepeak a bit noisy arter the silence of a big vessel's cabin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forepeak" 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
