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The hurrying steamships flew off to the right and left over the smooth bosom of the ocean, while sailing vessels, cast off by the pilot-tugs which had hauled them out, lay motionless, dressing themselves from the main-mast to the fore-tops in canvas, white or brown, and ruddy in the setting sun. Mme. Roland, with her eyes half-shut, murmured: "Good heavens, how beautiful the sea is!" And Mme.
He stopped at another street corner where a dozen youths were congregated. They were heavy-eyed, leering cubs, their hats were tipped back, and frowzled fore-tops stuck out over their pimply faces types of youths whom modest girls avoid hurriedly by detours. "Boys, folks are writing to the newspapers complaining that young chaps are insulting girls on the street corners of Marion.
The ladies' head-dresses, called 'frizzled fore-tops, became so extravagant, that a barber used high steps to enable him to dress a lady's head! Ed. A word not to be found in our dictionaries, being local and almost obsolete. It means a division, end, or border of a town or village. Ed. See the character of Talkative, in the Pilgrim's Progress.
I immediately ordered armed men aloft into the main and fore-tops, and caused powder to be laid on the poop to blow up the enemy if they should board us that way. At the sound of trumpets we began the fight, discharging both chain and bar-shot from our brazen artillery; while the Frenchmen, flourishing their swords from the main-yard, called out to us to board their ship.
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