I had seen the thing again, the long, wavering attenuated substance through which could be seen the fore-rigging. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I extended the line between the cloudy radiance and the mizzen-topmast and found that it must strike somewhere near the fore-rigging on the port side. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Having instructed Thomas Mugridge as to what he was to do, I clambered into the fore-rigging a few feet. ❋ Unknown (2010)
For an hour David Grief had been leaning on the rail at the lee fore-rigging, gazing overside at the steady phosphorescence of her gait. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Six-feet in length it was, slender, and of substance so attenuated that I had distinctly seen through it the tracery of the fore-rigging. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The answer to this was a gruff ‘All right,’ and the next thing was a heavy crash as the steamer struck a glancing blow with the bluff of her bow about our fore-rigging. ❋ Unknown (2004)
"Come on, you cowards!" the brave fellow exclaimed, clambering up into the fore-rigging and making for the top. ❋ J. [Illustrator] Schonberg (N/A)
Then came a grinding crash as the iron ram of the "Merrimac" struck the "Cumberland" almost at right angles on the starboard side under her fore-rigging. ❋ John Richard Hale (N/A)
Her fore-rigging caught fire, and the mast coming down across the decks started a blaze in several places, and the men, driven from the upper deck by the English fire, had to abandon their attempts to save their ship. ❋ John Richard Hale (N/A)
"It's no use, sir," said Jackson, when the captain had come abreast of the spot where he was standing, in the fore-rigging, trying vainly to reach the mast below. ❋ J. [Illustrator] Schonberg (N/A)
With such a deck-load, not an unusually large one in those days, the leading trucks attached to the fore-rigging were about half way between the main deck and the foretop. ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)
However, by sending about two hundred people into the fore-rigging, after a hard struggle, she wore; found she did not make so good weather on this tack as on the other; for as the sea began to run across, she had not time to rise from one sea before another lashed against her. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Having climbed into the fore-rigging, however, so as to have a good look at the boat and its occupants as we neared them, I was quite as quick as the skipper to notice what had happened, having, indeed, foreseen the contingency before it occurred. ❋ Henry [Illustrator] Austin (N/A)
The hands who had stopped half-way up the fore-rigging, spell-bound at the sight of the mirage, now bestirred themselves, shaking off their superstitious fears; old Masters, in the presence of something to be done, also working, and soon the sail was furled, the bunt stowed, and the gaskets passed. ❋ Henry [Illustrator] Austin (N/A)
About five, the wreck parted by the fore-rigging, and so many persons were thrown into the sea, that only seventy were left on the forecastle, they being lashed to the wreck. ❋ Marmaduke Park (N/A)
When all eyes were turned towards the captain, and each waited with breathless anxiety, in the hope that he would give some order that would at least be a relief to their feelings, even though it were folly to execute it, Tite mounted the fore-rigging to the top-mast trees, the surging ship threatening to dash him against the ice wall every minute. ❋ A. R. [Illustrator] Waud (N/A)
When going into action for a bombardment, the fore-rigging must be come up on the side where the mortar is to be used, the fore-topmast sent down, foresail unbent, boom and gaff laid on deck, rigging lashed in close to the mast, head-sails to be thoroughly wetted, spring on the cable, boats lowered from the side davits, and all the hatches covered with tarpaulins. ❋ United States. Navy Dept. Bureau Of Ordnance (N/A)
