foresheet

But when I've gone over the standing part of the foresheet, will you keep open both places-and this house here?"

Bones, you take the foresheet.

'You've had your share', Ramage said unsympathetically, 'and there'll be more to come before you go over the standing part of the foresheet.'

Amidships, Dr. McCoy squinted accusingly at the captain and held on tight to the foresheet.

And it's time to clear and quit When the hawser grips the bitt, So we'll pay you with the foresheet and a promise from the sea!

He just considering whether to shorten sail when the foresheet, which had been under considerable strain and was rubbing back and forth against the port gunwale, parted.

He began to curse the injustice of it: many couples had twenty, thirty and even more years of marriage before one or other of them went over the standing part of the foresheet.

Dr. McCoy let go of the foresheet a moment too soon, forcing Mr. Scott to haul hard on the wheel to keep from losing the fores'l into the waves.

"Well, young man, they're not the orders I like giving, because if you have to carry them out it probably means I've gone over the standing part of the foresheet, andtaken all my party-and probably the hostages-with me.

In fact, there were at most a few inches of slack in the offending foresheet, but the word panache might have been coined specifically for Captain Pitchallow, and Holderman knew better than to argue with him.

Each of the fifty-six bodies had been put one by one on the hinged plank at the bulwark just above where the standing part of the foresheet was made fast to the ship's side, and the appropriate flag placed over it.