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The sting of spray in my eyes and the Babel of noise dazed me; but Davies, with a pull on the fore-sheet, soothed the tormented little ship, and left her coolly sparring with the waves while he shortened sail and puffed his pipe.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

Hauling our fore-sheet to windward, and tricing up the main-tack, we now shot rocket after rocket with a sharp report high into the darkness, and, the roar of our guns booming above the loud storm, must have reached the shore.

A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

A tackle was hooked on to the yawl, which was, which was hoisted in and snugly stowed on deck; the helm was put up, the fore-sheet hauled to leeward, and, before I had time to realize this change in my situation, I found myself in a strange vessel, with strange companions, bound on a strange voyage to the Spanish Main.

Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale John Sherburne Sleeper

Alas! he was fatally mistaken, for nearly the whole of them were thrown over the standing part of the fore-sheet before we returned from our cruise.

A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

At that moment although there was hardly a breath on deck, a wind smote the upper sails, and the sailing-master gave orders to let go the fore-sheet, the jib-sheets, and the fore-topsail.

The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 J. F. Loubat

The fore-sheet was hanging in the calm, nearly into the water, and by it the dripping seaman scrambled up again to his old birth on the anchor, shook himself like a great

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. Anonymous

` ` Go forward, '' said Peyrol, ` ` and ease off the fore-sheet now a little.

The Rover 1923

Yours is to do your own work and to have Cooky stand by the fore-sheet.

Chapter 17 1904

He had not the slightest idea of her meaning, did not in fact know the difference between a fore-sheet and a mainsail.

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

But it had been hurting him, off and on, for some weeks, when one night, tacking out towards the fishing-grounds against a stiffish southerly breeze, as he ran forward to tend the fore-sheet his leg gave way under him as if it had been stabbed, and he rolled into the scuppers in intolerable anguish.

Nicky-Nan, Reservist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903