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"Forestay" Quotes from Famous Books

... took me at the sight. In a sudden rage I gripped the forestay with my left hand, lowered my right, and, slipping my fingers under his belt, lifted him—he was a light man—swung him outboard and overboard, and ...

— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine

... made of small pieces of wood spliced two or three times. To the apex of the "A" is attached a forked stick, over which run the halyards. The rectangular "sail" is nothing more nor less than a large mat made of rushes. A short forestay fastened to the sides of the "A" about four feet above the hull prevents the mast from falling when the sail is hoisted. The main halyards take the place of a backstay. The balsas cannot beat to windward, but behave very well in shallow water ...

— Inca Land - Explorations in the Highlands of Peru • Hiram Bingham

... mate hang a riding light on the forestay, Lowry got his night glasses, and turned them upon ...

— Tom Gerrard - 1904 • Louis Becke

... rushed through the water with terrific speed; burying her bows in foam at one moment, and hurling off clouds of spray at the next as she held on her wild course. Job stood on the bowsprit, drenched with spray, holding with one hand to the forestay, and waving the other high above his head, cheering and yelling furiously as if he were daring the angry sea to come on, ...

— The Lifeboat • R.M. Ballantyne

... are of muslin or lawn, and are laced to the boom and gaff and to curtain-rings on the mast, or for the jibs the common "eye" used for dresses makes a capital jib hank, and will slip readily up and down the forestay. ...

— Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various