| A round puff of white vapour, spreading itself lazily, clung in fading shreds about the foreyard. |
| They were set on wooden yards, the foreyard and foretopsail-yard, both of which could be sent on deck in foul weather. |
| Orion came round but Colossus was in the course of going about when her foreyard and foretop yard where shot away. |
| Hands were sent aloft to fish the foreyard, and to knot and splice the most important parts of the running rigging. |
| Very placidly, and as if lost in thought, he insisted on having the foreyard squared. |
| She sailed slowly round the south point of Pingelap and backed her foreyard, and presently a boat was lowered and pulled ashore. |
