foreyards

The smaller are fighting with all sails set; the few larger, who, once in, are careless about coming out again, fight with top-sails loose, and their main and foreyards close down on deck, to prevent being boarded.

Westward Ho! 2007

At daylight by careful manipulation of the helm we got the foreyards to run square by themselves (the water keeping smooth) and then went about hauling the ropes tight.

The Shadow Line 1917

Captain Blaise ordered her foresails brailed in to the mast to windward and her foreyards braced flat, this that she might sail closer to the wind.

Wide Courses 1912

The top spars of the _Bess_ had been slung while we were ashore, and by this time we had also knocked away the ugly and hindering false work on bow and stern, so that with her lifting foreyards which would have done for a sloop-of-war, and on her driving fore and aft sails which could have served the mizzen of a two-thousand-ton bark, the _Bess_ was now herself again.

Wide Courses 1912

The foreyards ran round with a great noise, amidst cheery cries.

The Secret Sharer 1911

And then the fatal words: "That'll do your mainsail; jump for'ard and haul round your foreyards."

The Wrecker 1898

The helm was put hard up, the main and foreyards laid square, and she commenced to scud dead before the wind towards the mystery of the north.

The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Walter Runciman 1892

The foreyards ran round with a great noise, amidst cheery cries.

'Twixt Land and Sea Joseph Conrad 1890

At daylight by careful manipulation of the helm we got the foreyards to run square by themselves (the water keeping smooth) and then went about hauling the ropes tight.

The Shadow Line; a confession Joseph Conrad 1890

The foreyards ran round with a great noise, amidst cheery cries.

The Secret Sharer Joseph Conrad 1890