Poor Sarah took off her frock and washed it before me, without a sign of distress or embarrassment; and then we went off together and had a bit of a dance, -- a rough-and-tumble fore-and-after, -- at the nearest booth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference

The flag was of black bunting tied with string to a fore-and-after which had evidently been taken off a finished-up sledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913] Reference

There can be no doubt that the lateen sail, which goes back at least to the early Egyptians, had the germ of a fore-and-after in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways] Reference

She had ceased to be profitable in competition with the larger, more modern fore-and-after, but these battered, veteran craft died hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern American Prose Selections] Reference

You say the word, and I have got a friend with a little fore-and-after as only wants him and a hand and mebbe me to give a pull at a sheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise] Reference

I hope you will find occasion to put on your cocked hat, that they may see how terrific and imposing "a fore-and-after" can be made on shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856] Reference

Well, you must understand that this room was low, scarcely higher than the cabin of a fore-and-after, with no skylights to it, or wind-sail, or port-hole that would open.    From Wordnik.com.  [Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War] Reference

They pass an iceberg or a derelict, some contour of tropical shore, a fishing fleet, or an old fore-and-after, and the steamer is a stifling modern metropolis after that -- galley and stoke-hole its slums.    From Wordnik.com.  [Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation] Reference

Have you had any experience in a fore-and-after? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy] Reference

She's a footy little brig, but I should have thought a fore-and-after would have been more handy. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales] Reference

"In one way, it looks like that, but, after all, a jibe's quite a common thing with a fore-and-after.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawtrey's Deputy] Reference

There never is on a fore-and-after.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man Overboard!] Reference