And again he walked, and again he pushed the foretop on his forehead; at last he grew impatient that the maiden was so long in returning.
Tis funny, mate, but it was on that same foretop I floated about so long.
I was captain of theforetop then, and no mistake, and monarch of all I surveyed.
I had been made captain of the foretop only a week before we were wrecked.
Now the foretop is a place high up in the rigging of the ship, a very giddy height indeed, and when a man is there he is really almost out of sight and it is impossible to see what he is doing from the deck.
In the morning when he went on deck he washed a shirt and took it up to the foretop to dry.
Once round and fairly on the move again, upon being relieved at the wheel I took the telescope and myself ascended to the foretop upon a visit of inspection.
If you'll believe me, on'y three days arterwards pore Bill did fall out o' theforetop and break his leg.
I dreamt old Bill Foster fell out o' the foretop and broke 'is leg.
Grimy sailors came down out of the foretop placidly announcing themselves as "a handful of private citizens of America, traveling simply for recreation and unostentatiously," etc.
Everywhere was the stir of jubilant life,--everywhere but under the tattered awning stretched in the foretop of the "Mouette.
Thus it happened that I fell off, in the very prime of life and strength, from an able-bodied seaman and captain of the foretopto a sort of lurcher along shore, and a man who must get his own living with nets and rods and suchlike.
Up in the foretopwas stationed Midshipman Jarvis, with a dozen or more of jackies, whose duty it was to mend the cordage of the topmast, and to keep up a musketry fire upon the enemy.
In the foretop of the "Constellation" was stationed young David Porter, who in that trying moment showed the result of his hard schooling in the merchant-service, of which we have spoken.
There wuz every color you could think on almost, in her gown and some stars a shinin' through the floatin' drapery and a half moon restin' up on her cloudy foretop like a beautiful orniment.
The last voyage I was on, my mate was in the foretop of the vessel I was in, looking out to windward, when pop jumps one of 'em right down his throat!
Presently, I could not only perceive the Esmeralda, but a boat also ahead, to which the man I had noticed in the foretop was making motions.
About four in the afternoon both fleets anchored; about ten they weighed again, and about twelve Admiral Russel's foretop mast came by the board.
Tromp, who was long engaged with Blake, lost most of his officers and had his ship disabled; De Ruyter lost his main and foretop mast, and very narrowly escaped being taken.
Nature seemed to have made an uneven distribution of foretopand fetlock in Darby's case, his foretop was so scanty and his fetlocks so heavy.
Everywhere was the stir of jubilant life,--everywhere but under the tattered awning stretched in the foretop of the Mouette.
In the assault on the Gate Pah Samuel Mitchell, Captain of the Foretop of H.
Members of the crews of the following ships received the medal for this period, although after August 1864, following the Gate Pa affair--in which Samuel Mitchell, captain of the foretop of H.
So clear was the day that the lookout in the foretop of the "Euryalus" could see the ripples on the beach.
From the foretop of the "Algéciras" a party of marksmen fired down on the English decks and wounded Captain Tyler badly.
The same afternoon, when it had cleared up again, the sun coming out and the waves calming down, our lookout-man aloft in the foretop sighted something in the distance.
He wer' cap'en of the foretop in the Blazer with us, Mr Mordaunt--a little chap with ginger hair.
Next day Parmiter was in the foretop splicing the forestay.
Guess I'll get to the foretop myself and take a look, sir," said Mr. Toley.
He answered like a flash, 'My captain of the foretopaboard the Agamemnon--Ralph Piper.
The privateer, her foretop in flames, was dishevelled as a virago after a street fight; while great white clouds puffing out of the frigate's quarter-gallery told that she was afire.
As he did so, the mist above drifted away, and the Union Jack at the foretop of the privateer floated out.
And anon we ketched a view of the blue tostin' waves of the Atlantic, the air jest as fresh and invigoratin' as when it blowed unto Columbuses wearyforetop when he discovered us.
I then, with dizzyforetop and achin' ear pans, tried to turn his mind onto politics and religion, no avail.
Lord Chudleigh was a man of fine presence, being at least five feet ten inches in height, without counting the heels of his boots and the foretop of his wig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foretop" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: companion; parts; ship
