Lay out as far forrard as you can, an' pass the word for steerin'.
He would walk from port to starboard, glance forrard and aft, peer at the wide crescent of the starlit sea, stroll back to port, and again scan ship and horizon.
This done, I went forrardto prepare some rice for breakfast.
Bidding the mate go forrard and superintend the raising of the anchor, I gave the necessary orders for getting sail on her.
Picking him up he carried him forrard and laid him on the hatch, at the same time sending a hand to rouse the captain.
They was both asleep curled up forrard under the bulwarks.
To make this efficient, we had to raise the sluice in the forrard bulkhead; and even the Old Man looked anxious when the Carpenter reported that the sluice was jammed, and that the screw had broken in his hands.
Who never caught a noon-tide dream 55 From murmur of a running stream; Could strip, for aught the prospect yields To him, their verdure from the fields; And take the radiance from the clouds In which the sun his setting shrouds.
The strain seemed doubly dear, Yea passing sweet--for English words Had dropt upon the ear.
The main-royal stay is gone, and the mast can't stand long, I think, unless we stay it forrard again.
I lost the linch pin out of my forrard axle, and I turned up there to get it sot to rights.
In the forrard cross bunker," was the instant answer.
Would you mind going forrard and asking Mr. Boyle to summon all hands on deck?
At eight o'clock, when we came on deck for the eight to twelve watch, I saw the Sailmaker coming forrard along the deck, from the Second Mate's old berth.
This lad, being no smoker, was fain to do something to while away the time, and with this intent, he had raked out the contents of a small box, which had lain upon the deck at the side of the forrard bulkhead.
This rope was then passed over the bows and in through the painter ring, and thence to the forrard thwarts, where it was made fast, and we gave attention to parcel it with odd strips of canvas against danger of chafe.
From it there opened off two state-rooms at the forrard end, and the captain's cabin in the after part, and in all of these we found matters of clothing and sundries such as proved that the vessel had been deserted apparently in haste.
These vessels have frequently five or six masts spread out like a fan, from the foremast, which rakes forrard at an extraordinary angle, to the mizzenmast, which shoots well out over the stern.
They are decked forrard flush with the gunnel for nearly half their length, when a low cabin takes up the space as far as the well, which is quite aft.
Without losing a minute I rushed forrardand told my news.
Then the food, both forrard and aft, was, in addition to being strictly on the abominable official scale which is a disgrace to a civilised country, of so unspeakably vile a quality that it was hardly fit to give to well-reared pigs.
There were high times forrard as well as aft, for canoe-loads of good things were brought, and all hands invested recklessly on credit, forgetting that as yet they had no money owing to them by the ship.
As I went forrard along the lee alley-way, the old man followed me, saying.
And then one day, a week before our arrival off the mouth of the Irrawaddy, Harry came forrard and told us something that made sport for all hands for the rest of that voyage.
Nothing to read, nobody to speak to, nothing to do, and forbidden with threats to go forrard among the men--that I should transgress sooner or later was a certainty.
The mate came on board quietly and turned in, no word reaching usforrard of any trouble about his little flutter.
He told me that it was a pointed bar of iron with a hole at one end for a lanyard to hang it round the neck by, adding that I should find some in the fo'lk'sle, "right forrard in the eyes of her.
I fled forrard on the instant, while he interviewed the old man.
The one aim, apparently, of every man forrard was to so fit me for the work I might be called upon to do, as that no excuse might be found for cruelty of any sort.
When the cabin-boy cameforrard that evening with his nightly budget of stories about the common enemy, he convulsed us all by his graphic details of the skipper's struggles to free himself from the clinging mess congealed about him.
Ses the Elder: 'Mr. Hopkins, your corn is not very forrard this year.
But the grate subject that has occupied the attenshin of all of us for two weeks past, has ben the grand forrard movement.
Then he steps forrard and picks out eighteen of the youngest and purtiest.
This is to leave a cl'ar space forrard fer a bum [bomb].
They all run forrard at that an' crowded inter the eyes of the ship to git away from me.
XI Expecting to be kicked into the sea if he didn't do as he was told, the boy got forrardat once.
Henry Harper got forrard at once, although he didn't know where.
You're putting yourself very forrardin other folks's business.
He could see the hands forrard on the fo'c'sle-head ready to let go the anchor, he could even make out the thin column of steam issuing from the escape-pipe in the cable range.
Hardly conscious of what he was doing, he clambered forrard in the boat, and resting his hands upon the gunwale, stared at the passing multitude.
But the spring was "forrard t'year" and the weather was consequently even more detestable than usual at that season.
Ef I'm wanted jest send me word, and I'll make a forrard movement any time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forrard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
