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  • To Goodsir's left sat Ice Master James Reid, and to his left the only Erebus petty officer present, Captain of the Foretop Robert Sinclair.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • β€œShe does that, Captain,” said Captain of the Foretop Harry Peglar.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • A year ago September, Blanky had helped Crozier and Harry Peglar, Captain of the Foretop, as they prepared Terror for her wintering-over for the second time this expedition.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • On Thompson's left were Ice Master Thomas Blanky, who appeared to be stumping along very nicely on his wooden peg leg these days, and Captain of the Foretop Harry Peglar, the only petty officer Crozier had invited.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • Terror had sailed with twenty-one petty officers three years earlier and sixteen were still alive on this cloudy August morning β€” Stoker John Torrington, Captain of the Foretop Harry Peglar, and quartermasters Kenley and Rhodes had been the only casualties in that group until just moments ago when Cook John Diggle had joined the ranks of the dead.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • Capts. of the Forecastle 2 Assistant Surgeon 1 Cooper 1 Clerk 1 Capts. of the Foretop 2

    The Lieutenant and Commander Hall, Basil, 1788-1844 1862

  • He met a girl with eyes like grapes by the name of Sally Brown, and could tell stories about Foretop Street, La Boca, Barbary Coast, and Tiger Bay.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • However it be, I have been often put out of Countenance by the Shortness of my Face, and was formerly at great Pains in concealing it by wearing a Periwigg with an high Foretop, and letting my Beard grow.

    Spectator, March 20, 1711 1711

  • William, having disposed of the two Books of Kings in the two Forks of the Foretop; but that glorious Monarch dying before the Wig was finished, there is a Space left in it for the

    Spectator, May 7, 1711 1711

  • He designed this Wig originally for King _William_, having disposed of the two Books of _Kings_ in the two Forks of the Foretop; but that glorious Monarch dying before the Wig was finished, there is a Space left in it for the Face of any one that has a mind to purchase it.

    The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

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