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And he flung himself across the fore-top balcony, a dark pudgy raven against the mild light of the ceiling.

Mr Goosevort Ivan R. 2011

The man who had been told to take up a station in the fore-top, was just behind the Second Mate.

The Ghost Pirates 2007

Jackey was placed in the fore-top, and word came that Jackey knew all those fellows, that they were the party who speared Mr. Kennedy.

Narrative of an expedition undertaken for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York 2003

The ship was sinking rapidly; the water had risen to the fore-top; the poop and forecastle were completely submerged; the top of the bowsprit had disappeared, and only the three mast-tops projected from the waves.

The Survivors of the Chancellor 2003

L'ALCIDE, of seventy-four guns, struck; but before she could be taken possession of, a box of combustibles in her fore-top took fire, and the unhappy crew experienced how far more perilous their inventions were to them - selves than to their enemies.

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

We were lounging on deck watching the sunset, and occupied with our thoughts, when suddenly there was a cry from the "look out" in the main fore-top which created an instantaneous and marvellous scene of activity on board.

Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 Robert B. Booth

The man at the fore-top looked around him; it was a moment of intense anxiety; then waving his hat, he cried out, "A sail, on the lee-bow!"

Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People Marmaduke Park

Then he called a marine and had him show the woman to the fore-top.

The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs

He was, at first, stationed to watch in the fore-top; but Captain Farmer, who early discovered how very superior his abilities were to his age and appearance, soon placed him on the quarter-deck, and treated him with the most indulgent kindness.

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

Instead of which, they had only taken a single ship, the Alcide; and that, such was the fortune of this luckless day, took fire about half an hour after it had struck, and before being taken into possession -- said to be occasioned by a box of combustibles in the fore-top -- and the whole ship was soon in a blaze.

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison