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"How far is it to land, my frient?" he inquired. The sailor touched his cap. "Which way, sir?" he asked solemnly. "Fore or aft?" "Vat? Land, you know vat I mean, the end of the ocean. How far avay is it?" The sailor calculated. "Well, the nearest land, sir, I should say, is about three hundred miles away, to port." "How deep is it here?" asked Mr. Nicklestick, moving away from the rail suddenly.
No danger of falling asleep there, no more than there is up aloft, 'when the stormy winds do blow. Consciences get raked fore and aft, sins are blown clean out of the water, false colors are hauled down and true ones run up to the masthead, and many an immortal soul is warned to steer off in time from the pirates, rocks and quicksands of temptation.
While the young Weimar hero forced his way Into Franconia, to the Danube, like Some delving winter-stream, which, where it rushes, Makes its own channel; with such sudden speed He marched, and now at once 'fore Regensburg Stood to the affright of all good Catholic Christians.
All sail was once more made; the carronades were cast loose on both sides, and double shotted; the long gun slewed round; the tack of the fore and aft foresail hauled up, and we kept by the wind, and stood after the cutter, whose white canvass we could still see through the gloom like a snow wreath.
"I will myself send you in my car with good black Kizzie to see Timms to-morrow, Mary," I promised her while she wrote. "I got ter get my arms around his neck once more 'fore he kills me fer telling," she answered as she signed her name to the paper and handed it to me.
Her bowsprit and mizzen-mast were gone, as was also her fore topmast; and the mainmast, with topmast and all attached, was leaning aft, and so far over the side that the observers would not have been surprised to see it fall at any moment.
No, bad manners to it! no, you're not widout a home anyway. The family's in my barn, brave and comfortable, compared to what your own house was, that let in the wather through the roof like a sieve; and, while the same barn's to the fore, never say you want a home." "God bless you, Frank, for that goodness to them and me; if you're not rewarded for it here you will in a betther place.
Some satirists have complained of life inasmuch as all the pleasures belong to the fore part of it and we must see them dwindle till we are left, it may be, with the miseries of a decrepit old age.
It is doubtful whether gliders contributed much to the art in the direction of laterally stabilizing aeroplanes. They taught useful lessons with respect to area and fore and aft control. The kite gave the first impulse to seek out a means for giving equilibrium to planes, and Montgomery made a kite with warping wings as early as 1884.
The men had found food and rest in the Army, and now they were going to fight "niggers" people who ran away if you shook a stick at them. Wherefore they cheered lustily when the rumour ran, and the shrewd, clerkly non-commissioned officers speculated on the chances of batta and of saving their pay. At Headquarters men said: "The Fore and Fit have never been under fire within the last generation.
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