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How To Use forecastle In A Sentence

• Bennie," he said in a low voice, "is there trouble brewing in the forecastle? The Mutineers
• When I woke up, I was on my bed in the forecastle, the crew's cabin.
• Besides, I understand that every forecastle has its bully, or group of bullies; so this is merely a forecastle matter and no concern of the afterguard. CHAPTER XVII
• Of the hands forward, some of the watch were aloft, working at odd jobs about the rigging, while the drowsy clinking of a spunyarn winch somewhere on the forecastle, in the shadow of the head sails, accounted for the remainder. The Cruise of the "Esmeralda"
• A hatchway between leads back into the forecastle, a tight and very silty space should you feel inclined to explore.
• But as perhaps fifty of these whale-bone whales are harpooned for one cachalot, some philosophers of the forecastle have concluded that this positive havoc has already very seriously diminished their battalions. Moby Dick; or the Whale
• After this I went on board; but the first sight I met with was two men drowned in the cookroom, or forecastle of the ship, with their arms fast about one another. Robinson Crusoe
• The topmast anticked high in the air for a space, then crashed down to deck, permitting the bowsprit to dip into the sea, go clear with the butt of it of the forecastle head, and drag alongside. CHAPTER XV
• In addition to the holds, the forecastle, bridge-island, engine room, and stern cabins offer the diver interesting places to explore.
• How Charles Davis survives in that wet, freezing, paint-scabbed room of iron in the 'midship-house is beyond me -- just as it is beyond me that the wretched sailors in the wretched forecastle do not lie down in their bunks and die, or, at least, refuse to answer the call of the watches. CHAPTER XXXVII