How To Use Fore-and-aft In A Sentence
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There can be no doubt that the lateen sail, which goes back at least to the early Egyptians, had the germ of a fore-and-after in it.
All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
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When a musician performs a Bach Fugue or Beethoven Sonata, a wrong note is called a "clinker," and can be as jarring as a mixed-up before-and-after ad.
Michael Sigman: Once Is A Mistake, Twice Is Jazz
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The jibs and staysails are triangular, the spanker a quadrangular {108} fore-and-after.
All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
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She had ceased to be profitable in competition with the larger, more modern fore-and-after, but these battered, veteran craft died hard.
Modern American Prose Selections
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Poor Sarah took off her frock and washed it before me, without a sign of distress or embarrassment; and then we went off together and had a bit of a dance, -- a rough-and-tumble fore-and-after, -- at the nearest booth.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866
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Well, you must understand that this room was low, scarcely higher than the cabin of a fore-and-after, with no skylights to it, or wind-sail, or port-hole that would open.
Springhaven
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Swash carried a wapper of a fore-and-aft mainsail, and, what is more, it was fitted with a standing gaff, for appearance in port.
Jack Tier; Or, the Florida Reef
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Before-and-after analyses of the footbath by the Medical Toxicology Unit, New Cross, confirmed that the brown stuff that appears in the bathwater is iron-based, and that the bathwater showed no sign of the urea and creatinine ( "probably the smallest molecules - call them 'toxins' if you like - that your body gets rid of, in places like urine and sweat") that you'd expect if any dialysis were happening.
Archive 2004-09-01
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Also, the fore-and-aft sail on the mizzenmast, originally a triangular lateen sail, was changed to accommodate the more modern rig.
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And so, although the light-winged craft that was following the ship sailed three feet to her two; yet she had such a long start, and the breeze was so fair and dead aft -- which was all in favour of a square-rigged vessel and against a fore-and-after, that sails best with the wind abeam -- that the felucca was still some five miles off when day broke and the chief mate first discovered her.
Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
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Before-and-after analyses of the footbath by the Medical Toxicology Unit, New Cross, confirmed that the brown stuff that appears in the bathwater is iron-based, and that the bathwater showed no sign of urea or creatinine (the smallest organic molecules excreted by the body via urine and sweat - "call them 'toxins', if you like") that you'd expect if any dialysis were happening.
Dodgy detox
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The flag was of black bunting tied with string to a fore-and-after which had evidently been taken off a finished-up sledge.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
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She carries the traditional Great Lakes fore-and-aft schooner rig with its distinctive triangular ‘raffee’ sail on a foremast yardarm.
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Topped by a deer-stalking fore-and-aft cap in an inferior state of preservation, he wore the jacket of a lounge-suit, once possible, doubtless, but now demoded, and a blazered golfing waistcoat, striking for its poisonous greens, trousers from an outing suit that I myself had discarded after it came to me, and boots of an entirely shocking character.
Ruggles of Red Gap
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The foremasts carried square-rigged sails, while the mainmasts carried a fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail and square-rigged top sail.
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One, the enterprise is fore-and-aft and attrib border any products or service involve theory activity of quite a few.
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We see how helicopters were used, how scenes were composed, and the before-and-after dissolves of scenes.
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She had two masts and carried fore-and-aft auxiliary sails.
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And I found the doctor busy with the plague at Bay Saint Billy, himself quartered aboard the _Greased Lightning_, a fore-and-after which he had chartered for the season: to whom I lied diligently and without shame concerning my sister's condition, and with such happy effect that we put to sea in the brewing of the great gale of that year, with our topsail and tommy-dancer spread to a sousing breeze.
Doctor Luke of the Labrador
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Next, she had to supply a CV and a portfolio of work containing before-and-after pictures of various nail techniques.
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Also, the fore-and-aft sail on the mizzenmast, originally a triangular lateen sail, was changed to accommodate the more modern rig.
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They pass an iceberg or a derelict, some contour of tropical shore, a fishing fleet, or an old fore-and-after, and the steamer is a stifling modern metropolis after that -- galley and stoke-hole its slums.
Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation
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The rainfall will restrain the development of mix layer which has a feature of mature, die and rebuild fore-and-aft the duration of rainfall.
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Ordinarily, scientists gauge environmental impacts by comparing before-and-after data on species in a region invaded by an alien.
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A seaplane drifted overhead, taking photographs for before-and-after images to determine how the atoll's topography had changed.
THE X FILES 3: GROUND ZERO
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To bring the compass needle back to North it would be necessary to move up nearer the compass dial the fore-and-aft magnet (shown below), whose magnetism would act on the compass needle on this heading of the ship exactly as the athwartship magnet acted on the compass needle when the ship was headed North:
Lectures in Navigation
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Southern hemisphere ships and non-Venn ships of the north were all fore-and-aft rigged, though many had square foretopsails; raffees had square foresails with triangular foretopsails.
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“But if she’s clean below, and doesn’t dismast or fall apart under the strain, and if we avoid digging her bow and flipping fore-and-aft — we might just be able to make it in thirty-six hours.”
Conqueror's Moon