Packs at the alien's sides puffed gas from fore-and-aft snouts. From Wordnik.com. [I Don’t Understand ?] Reference
Couronne, and followed by a fore-and-aft rigged steamer, flying the. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Kearsarge and Alabama] Reference
The two masts were square-rigged, apart from a fore-and-aft mizzen sail. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
Afar he glimpsed a fishing boat, high-prowed beneath a red fore-and-aft sail. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
Also hinge-bladed propellers, to open and close with a fore-and-aft movement at the stern. From Wordnik.com. [History of Steam on the Erie Canal] Reference
The fore-and-aft pendulum motion dampened out more quickly than the side-to-side roll had. From Wordnik.com. [Nuke Zone]
The main fore-and-aft passageway was on the port side instead of the centerline, for one thing. From Wordnik.com. [Red Storm Rising]
She was a fore-and-aft schooner of twenty tons, measuring 42 feet 6 inches over all and put up at. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
A command from the tug and mooring beams glowed at the fore-and-aft towers to immobilize the Raven. From Wordnik.com. [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference
Toyota's Sienna has a second row that slides fore-and-aft over a generous range, aiding flexibility. From Wordnik.com. [First Drive: 2011 Honda Odyssey minivan] Reference
It filled the upper square sails, lower fore-and-aft canvas, and jibs that drove Firefish southeast. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Of Empire]
About halfway to the end, another passage crossed the fore-and-aft one, and a few steps farther was a ladder. From Wordnik.com. [This World Must Die!] Reference
The old man had polished his medals and donned a moth-nibbled army fore-and-aft cap in honor of the occasion. From Wordnik.com. [Stalin's Ghost]
The crojack was taken in, and some of the outer fore-and-aft handsails, whose order of names I can never remember. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XXIX] Reference
She was a side-wheeler, with a thin raking funnel, and was square-rigged on her fore-mast, fore-and-aft on her mizzen. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
The interior goes farther out into unreality, with a sweeping fore-and-aft console that effectively erects a partition between the two rear seats. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln MKR concept car continues to turn heads] Reference
Solid black masses on either side with a scarcely lighter strip of dark jungle green running between them on a line with the fore-and-aft direction of the ship. From Wordnik.com. [Ice Station Zebra]
Nor was the Matapan so little: she was at least forty feet long, twin-masted, with curious athwartships and fore-and-aft rails just above the height of a tall man's head. From Wordnik.com. [Fear is the Key]
P.M. Split fore-and-aft main-sail at 7 ... hove to. From Wordnik.com. [The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant] Reference
I don't know how he came to be in command of a fore-and-aft schooner. From Wordnik.com. [Man Overboard!] Reference
They were fore-and-aft schooners, of beautiful model, and entirely new. From Wordnik.com. [Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark] Reference
The back bench also slides six inches fore-and-aft and reclines a few degrees. From Wordnik.com. [Autoblog] Reference
She is a fore-and-aft schooner of one hundred and ten tons, said to have been built at. From Wordnik.com. [A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy] Reference
The Lady Nelson, having split her fore-and-aft mainsail, bore up for Twofold Bay to refit. From Wordnik.com. [The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant] Reference
The bench slides fore-and-aft by 6.3 inches, while the backrest can be adjusted to three different angles. From Wordnik.com. [Autoblog] Reference
The square-rigged ship, or bark, has been very largely replaced by the fore-and-aft, or schooner-rigged vessel. From Wordnik.com. [Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges] Reference
All that day the chase continued -- the frigate gaining, however, somewhat on the stranger, a large fore-and-aft schooner. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Sea And of our Jack Tars] Reference
At last, the dog got to his feet, stretched himself fore-and-aft, in true collie fashion; and trotted down the paved walk to the road. From Wordnik.com. [Further Adventures of Lad] Reference
When any fore-and-aft vessel came into this harbor I was informed of the fact, and you may judge my surprise when I saw The Starry Flag. From Wordnik.com. [Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World] Reference
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