Take him away at once to the fo'c's'le some of you. From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
Big John there's a sailorman, an 'the fo'c's'le' ll do him. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XVI] Reference
Van Gelder was away at once and was very quickly alongside the fo'c's'le of the Delos. From Wordnik.com. [Santorini]
"Where am I?" he stammered out, gazing round the little fo'c's'le of the lugger in wonder. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
In the meantime, let us address ourselves to the problem of those poor souls on the fo'c's'le. From Wordnik.com. [Santorini]
"That must have been poor Briggs's body floating about in the fo'c's'le," observed Captain Miles. From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
Everyone else in th 'fo'c's'le sits up, wide awake, an' starin 'at th' sufferin 'wretches on th' floor. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
"Aye," called out the foremost hand, who had before spoken -- the usual leader, and the wit of the fo'c's'le -- "the ghost-ship, cap'en.". From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference
If we be missin' some links, or if ye have more questions, fire a cannon over our fo'c's'le at midnight, or send e-mail to [email protected]. From Wordnik.com. [Shimmer » The Pirate Issue] Reference
"Aye, aye, sir," answered the foremost hand, Parrell, who had come from the fo'c's'le to take the first "trick" at the steering wheel on the bridge. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference
"Now, I think, we can make another attempt to find that axe of the carpenter's in the fo'c's'le, if you are not too tired, Jake, to go in after it again?". From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
"Aye, aye, sir," I cried, making my way along the gangway by the side of the deckhouse towards the fo'c's'le, which was still lit up by the afterglow as if on fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference
"There!" replied the young officer, pointing to the ledge outside the bulkhead, just over the iron ladder-way that led down to the fo'c's'le, the scene of the accident. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
"Aye, aye, sir," came back from old Masters away forward, and then followed the melodious chime of the ship's bell that hung immediately under the beak of the fo'c's'le. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference
"I quite agree with you, sir," replied Mr Marline; "and if I had not thought so, you would have seen me long ere this on the fo'c's'le, getting up a jury-mast or something.". From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
"You seem wonderfully fond of whales, missy!" he exclaimed, turning round as soon as he had managed to wriggle himself out of the fo'c's'le and was able to stand erect again. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
A third shell struck and exploded in the bows in almost the same position as the previous one - the already uplifted section of the fo'c's'le had heaved up almost another foot. From Wordnik.com. [San Andreas]
The strangers out with revolvers, back my men into the fo'c's'le, and lock them in. From Wordnik.com. [Sonnie-Boy's People] Reference
Then, one day he gets hold of his banjo from out of Hiram's chest in the fo'c's'le, where old. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Treasure] Reference
See one dive and take a sea over her fo'c's'le head and smash in her chart-house bulkhead maybe!. From Wordnik.com. [The U-boat hunters] Reference
It'll be dead of winter off the Horn, and a fo'c's'le full of lunatics and cripples to do the work. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference
If I had my way I'd send him some'er's where he could learn navigation, and that's in the fo'c's'le of. From Wordnik.com. [Tides of Barnegat] Reference
With this, Hiram started off for the fo'c's'le, taking one of the ship's lanterns with him, to see what he was about. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Treasure] Reference
Nor did the conversation I heard in the fo'c's'le tend to soothe my startled nerves and make me feel more comfortable. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Treasure] Reference
And in this instance -- superinduced by a vision of the gallows -- fo'c's'le hands stuck to one another and lied manfully together. From Wordnik.com. [The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896] Reference
I'm a-goin 'to sit quiet here for a week an' let any blanked wharf rat own that there fo'c's'le just because I got a lot o 'white-livered cowards aboard?. From Wordnik.com. [The Mucker] Reference
One comes to take anything as a matter of course; to take one's neighbors seriously, whether one lives in Plato or Persia, in Mrs. Henkel's kitchen or a fo'c's'le. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference
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