The point is that there are ships where things DO go wrong; but whatever the ship - good or bad, lucky or unlucky - it is in the
forepart of her that her chief mate feels most at home.
No, I'm quite warm,' answered Nikita as he pushed some straw up to the
forepart of the sledge so that it should cover his feet, and stowed away the whip, which the good horse would not need, at the bottom of the sledge.
Meanwhile the officiating clergy had got into their vestments, and the priest and deacon came out to the lectern, which stood in the
forepart of the church.
There was a steel axis to the whole affair, a central backbone which terminated in the engine and propeller, and the men and magazines were forward in a series of cabins under the expanded headlike
forepart. The engine, which was of the extraordinarily powerful Pforzheim type, that supreme triumph of German invention, was worked by wires from this
forepart, which was indeed the only really habitable part of the ship.
Howiver, if thee wouldstna be easy, Alick can stay at home i' the
forepart o' the day, and Tim can come back tow'rds five o'clock, and let Alick have his turn.
Had the stern of the ship been fixed, and the
forepart broken off, I am persuaded I might have made a good voyage; for by what I found in those two chests I had room to suppose the ship had a great deal of wealth on board; and, if I may guess from the course she steered, she must have been bound from Buenos Ayres, or the Rio de la Plata, in the south part of America, beyond the Brazils to the Havannah, in the Gulf of Mexico, and so perhaps to Spain.
Let no one hear the cause of this dispute; for this would be a great marvel indeed among the deathless gods, that a child newly born should pass in through the
forepart of the house with cattle of the field: herein you speak extravagantly.
The workmen had gone only last night; and the last piece of work they did was the hanging of the heavy curtains which looped midway the length of the saloon--divided it in two if released, cutting off the after end with its companion-way leading direct on the poop, from the
forepart with its outlet on the deck; making a privacy within a privacy, as though Captain Anthony could not place obstacles enough between his new happiness and the men who shared his life at sea.
I became aware that the two were standing on the shore alongside the
forepart of the steamboat, just below my head.
Jukes, motionless on the
forepart of the bridge, began to speak at once.
That embodiment of jauntiness, Frenchy, still under the delusion that there was a "jump" left in him, had insisted on joining us; but mindful of discipline, had laid him- self down as far on the
forepart of the poop as he could get, alongside the bucket-rack.
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Forepart of composite creature representing farr facing left, 19.1 mm / 3.20 g.