I once asked one of those fellows what he called the foremast in his language, and what d'ye think he said?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor Jack] Reference

I once asked one of those fellows what be called the foremast in his language, and what d'ye think he said?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor Jack] Reference

The foremast, which is considerably smaller and stepped well forrard, is in like manner devoid of any kind of stay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference

The foremast was the only mast now remaining, and it was soon sent flying over the side by the terrific firing from the British ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drake Nelson and Napoleon]

"The foremast is the main thing to get rid of now; and, unless the sea keeps still, we'll never manage to cut that away, for it is still more under water than the mainmast was.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference

"They've made a line fast round the foremast!" he shouted back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

Early in the fight a Japanese shell had cut down the foremast of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

Her foremast carried square sails; her main and mizzen masts were schooner-rigged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

Providentially got the foremast cut away, that she might not pay round broad-side.    From Wordnik.com.  [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.] Reference

All the flagships had as a distinctive mark a long red pennon at the foremast-head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

Broadstairs, whence I received the coxswain's telegram -- 'Crew all saved; sprung foremast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference

On a sudden I took it into my head to fancy that the mizzenmast wasn't so secure as the foremast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference

Lost five men cutting away the foremast, by the breaking of a sea on board just as the mast went.    From Wordnik.com.  [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.] Reference

No one seemed more surprised at the ending of the affair than the newly - promoted foremast hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference

He had been promoted from the foremast on account of his predecessor having died on the passage out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference

Our rigging and sails were much cut; one shot through the foremast, and the bowsprit slightly injured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference

When the last net was overboard the master said, "Seas all!" and then lowered the foremast and laid to the wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference

Well, he will find the comfort of being a cabin-boy or a foremast-man on board the fleet for the rest of his days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference

All this, however, proved ineffectual; as did also the attempt to lighten her forward by cutting away her foremast.    From Wordnik.com.  [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.] Reference

One man, a black, lashed himself to the foremast, and kept watch in case the ship should break loose from her moorings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference

Soon every stitch of canvas on the mainmast is swung about to face the breeze, while that on the foremast is hauled in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by English Authors: the Sea] Reference

As we pushed away from the sight of the Irish hills, Shakspere, leaning against the foremast, in pathetic tone exclaimed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference

At the helm, therefore, stood the two coxswains, while round the foremast and close to the fore air-box grouped the lifeboatmen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference

Her bowsprit was carried away, and her foremast went over the side, the strain on the rigging bringing down the main topmast with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

He therefore ordered men to every fore shroud, and one with an axe to the foremast to cut it away should that measure become indispensable.    From Wordnik.com.  [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.] Reference

On the foremast, at a height of about two meters, there was placed a crane, F, which was capable of moving according to a horizontal plane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884] Reference

A powerful man and a good foremast hand; but an all-fired lazy devil about work, and as sulky as a bear when he didn't get his grub regular.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference

Indeed, as they grasped for dear life the belaying pins on the foremast, the sea covered them up to their shoulders, and they were all but carried away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference

Parties were sent forth to reconnoitre, while our remaining foremast was unshipped, and planted on the highest part of the sandbank with a signal of distress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

By the time they plunged into the awful sea on the sands the schooner had struck, and was thumping farther into the sands, sails flying wildly about and the foremast gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference