"You'd have made a right good foretopman if your heart is as stout as your fingers are quick," said he.

He was a foretopman, but he seems quite dazed and stupid still.' '

The Dansker in fact being the originator of the name by which the Foretopman eventually became known aboard ship.

But a young seafarer of the disposition of our athletic Foretopman, is much of a child-man.

And as the Foretopman reappeared and was recognized by him; "Ah, Beauty, is it you?

"me to remove him" (meaning the body) "to yonder compartment," designating one opposite that where the Foretopman remained immured.

Billy Budd: Foretopman ed.

He's 21, and he's a foretopman in the British Navy, which means his position aboard ship is the platform on the mast located at the very front.

No, to the people the Foretopman's deed, however it be worded in the announcement, will be plain homicide committed in a flagrant act of mutiny.

'The cook's mate, "Slushy" Dyson, and a foretopman called Brookland.'

When he's forced to sign on the man-of-war Bellipotent as a foretopman, he doesn't complain, and he soon wins the friendship of the sailors on that ship as well.

CHAPTER 20 Now when the Foretopman found himself closeted there, as it were, in the cabin with the Captain and Claggart, he was surprised enough.

He was sure Dyson hadn't suddenly named the foretopman to protect Harris: he was so frightened it was much more likely he'd name the real leader to save his own skin.

Vere recognizes the evil but fails to stand up for the good when Billy is condemned to hang for conduct unbefitting a British foretopman: the unpremeditated murder of Claggart.

'If I may make so bold, sir,' said Bonden, getting to his feet and standing there, suddenly constrained, lumpish and embarrassed, 'there's my Aunt Sloper's George - George Lucock, foretopman, larboard watch.

These accumulated experiences were crystallized into bold action by a series of events following Norris' receipt of a manuscript dramatizing Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Foretopman co-authored by his fellow Princetonian Robert Chapman.

CHAPTER 2 Though our new-made foretopman was well received in the top and on the gun decks, hardly here was he that cynosure he had previously been among those minor ship's companies of the merchant marine, with which companies only had he hitherto consorted.

Alongside of three other slumberers from below, he lay near that end of the booms which approaches the fore-mast; his station aloft on duty as a foretopman being just over the deckstation of the forecastlemen, entitling him according to usage to make himself more or less at home in that neighbourhood.

Presently he was stirred into semi-consciousness by somebody, who must have previously sounded the sleep of the others, touching his shoulder, and then as the Foretopman raised his head, breathing into his ear in a quick whisper, "Slip into the lee forechains, Billy; there is something in the wind.

The foretopman had, as Rossi and Maxton seized him in the darkness, taken a massive gulp of air to shout Or so it seemed to Rossi who simultaneously raised the knife a few indies, sticking it expertly into the fleshy part of the man's shoulder, and clapped a hand over his mouth.

A foretopman, Your Honor-" "William Budd," repeated Captain Vere with unfeigned astonishment; "and mean you the man that Lieutenant Ratcliff took from the merchantman not very long ago- the young fellow who seems to be so popular with the men- Billy, the 'Handsome Sailor,' as they call him?"

For example, early versions gave the book's title as Billy Budd, Foretopman, while it now seems clear Melville intended Billy Budd, Sailor: (An Inside Narrative); some versions wrongly included a chapter that Melville had excised as a preface (the correct text has no preface).