By this time the ship was nearly on her beam ends and probably touching the ground, for the water was breaking very heavily over her, and to the best of my recollection the foreyard was touching the sand.
Mr Kelson," to the carpenter, "jump up and see what the foreyard will carry.
In less than a minute we were bowling along before it; but the wind was breezing up again, and no one could say how long the wounded foreyard would carry the weight and drag of the sails.
There were bright cockscomb and in a swamp corner of the foreyard a great bunch of cat-o'-nine tails straight as corn stalks.
Slept a lot that day and night; and at eight this morning slacked off my spanker and main sheets, checked in my foreyard and topsail by taking the the braces to the donkey engine, and was off for home.
Bart, for the love o' heaven, help me with this foreyard brace.
The wind was from the northwest and luckily the foreyard was braced to starboard while the mainyard was braced to port, so his problem was a simple one.
Thus, the foreyard of a brig of about 140 tons, taken by H.
Our craft--a small brig--was lying with her foreyard aback.
One of the sailors went on to the foreyard to ascertain more distinctly what was going on.
The captain called out to the men on the foreyard to "hold on for God's sake," as the vessel lurched over so far that the man on the lee yardarm said that he felt his foot touch the water.
Then, there being a fair wind on her starboard quarter, Delarousse hauled up his courses, mainsail and foresail, and threw his foreyard aback.
These were then cast adrift; the foreyard filled, and the Aimable Vertu stood out to sea.
The foreyard had been sprung, or True Blue would have brought the vessel to under her fore-topsail.
He fired, and the enemy's foreyard came instantly down.
The foreyard was swung round again and the Golden Rod turned her bowsprit for the west.
Within ten yards of her the foreyard was hauled aback and they gazed down upon her terrible crew.
At the same instant the connecting rope was severed, the foreyard creaked back into position again, and the bucketful of salt water soused down over the gunner and his gun, putting out his linstock and wetting his priming.
Brace back the foreyard and lay her to," shouted the captain.
I'll rig up a whip from theforeyard and we can let down a hammock for 'em, tricing up one at a time.
She's dodging now; and I've had the foreyardhauled aback.
Both vessels were alive in a moment, and while the Battle-Axe was squaring away the Star's foreyard was braced sharp up on the starboard tack till she fell off before the little breeze.
That foreyard goes round now," said old Semple, "as if it was hung like a balance.
The battle was about over when Seymour noticed a man running out in the foreyard of the Yarmouth with a hand-grenade.
Seymour raised his remaining pistol and fired it at the second man, who had nearly reached the foreyard arm; less successful this time, he missed the man, who threw his grenade down the hatchway.
That fellow knows his work," and he nodded toward where Tandy was engaged in getting the foreyard swayed up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foreyard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
