Then the fore-topmast would fall, yards would fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Hotspur]

The fore-topmast is a - complainin 'like anythink, I can tell ye, sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference

She had lost her fore-topmast and jib-boom during the night, off O'Kosiri.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

A sorry, pitiful sight she looked, her fore-topmast broken off clean at the cap, her sails shivering in the wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower In The West Indies]

The port shrouds of the foremast carried away at the chain-plates, and the fore-topmast leaned over drunkenly to starboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER XV] Reference

The Captain's fore-topmast being now shot away, Nelson put his helm down, and let her come to the wind, that he might board the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844] Reference

More of the sailors took advantage of the interval to rush for'ard under the toppling fore-topmast, dive into the forecastle, and hastily pack their sea-bags.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER XV] Reference

The mizzen staysail followed suit; and then, seeing that the ship bore the pressure pretty well, Captain Miles ordered the fore-topmast staysail to be hoisted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference

Captain Doane shouted to one of the sailors who had just emerged from the forecastle scuttle, sea - bag in hand, and over whom the fore-topmast was swaying giddily.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER XV] Reference

There was a lookout on the fore-topmast crosstrees; but almost every one was looking out in the direction where some trace of David and Jonathan might be discovered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference

"Set the fore-topmast staysail!" hoarsely yelled the captain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming Wave The Hidden Treasure of High Rock] Reference

Just as I reached the fore-topmast cross-trees, they were up to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage round the World A book for boys] Reference

The cry is from a man stationed on the fore-topmast cross-trees of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea] Reference

On Monday morning, the captain told him to stay the fore-topmast plumb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

Hardly had they got below, before away went the fore-topmast staysail, blown to ribbons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

Mr Forbes, get the starboard fore-topmast staysail sheets aft and well belayed, if you please.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the "Esmeralda"] Reference

The foremast, which had stood, had been well stayed, and a fresh fore-topmast had also been got up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews.] Reference

The full-jib was also set, and, as it departed in shreds, the fore-topmast staysail was being hoisted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference

Down he slid by the main-topmast-stay, and in an instant more he was climbing the fore-topmast rigging.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage round the World A book for boys] Reference

Suddenly the ship rose with a violent motion to an even keel, carrying away, as she did so, her fore-topmast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews.] Reference

The former lost her main-topmast, and as she had previously lost her fore-topmast she became totally unmanageable.    From Wordnik.com.  [By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson] Reference

Again a shout burst from the throats of the English crew, as the Frenchman's fore-topmast was seen to go over the side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heir of Kilfinnan A Tale of the Shore and Ocean] Reference

And down came the fore-topmast and all its rigging; the ropes flying about our heads, and the spars nearly striking us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading] Reference

By the rapid fire of the enemy, the fore-topmast was badly cut, and there was great danger that it might go by the board.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

The fear was that the fore-topmast and mizzen-topmast, if not the lower masts, deprived of their support, might go likewise.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage round the World A book for boys] Reference

Hauling up a little, I soon had every stitch of canvas on the brig which she could carry, with starboard fore-topmast studding-sails.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Sea And of our Jack Tars] Reference

Before he had time to issue any orders the main topgallant mast was carried away, dragging the fore-topmast, and with it the jibboom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews.] Reference

The fore-topsail was first furled, and the maintopsail, which was closely reefed, and the fore-topmast staysail were the only sails set.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage round the World A book for boys] Reference

At noon the Cumberland was running along the shore, close enough to be observed, and made a signal for a pilot from the fore-topmast head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders] Reference

The bowsprit and fore-topmast were gone, as was the mizen topmast, while it seemed as if in an instant the main-topmast would follow the other masts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heir of Kilfinnan A Tale of the Shore and Ocean] Reference

As she drew nearer, I observed that her fore-topmast, her main-topgallant-mast, and main-topsail yard were gone, and that she was evidently in other ways much damaged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Whalers Adventures in the Pacific] Reference

She, of course, could carry sail on her main-mast, but it took some time to clear away the wreck of the fore-topmast, and to set up the fore-stay, which had been carried away.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage round the World A book for boys] Reference