We'll divide into watches first of alltwo men aft here, and one at the bow.

There was a staff or mast at the bow, another at the stern.

I stood at the bow, with my face turned towards England, and counted the days before I could get there and begin my search for you.

For this reason it is, that the end of a line is never permitted to run out at the bow of a boat at all.

A nymph presides, nor practised in the chase, Nor skilful at the bow, nor at the race; Of all the blue-eyed daughters of the main, The only stranger to Diana's train: Her sisters often, as 'tis said, would cry, 'Fie, Salmacis, what always idle!

In the "Destroyer" the means of offence was a single gun for discharging a torpedo under water at the bow.

There was a fine race-horse on board, who, soon after the alarm, broke from his halter at the bow of the boat, and dashed through the crowd of passengers, prostrating all in his way; and then, rendered frantic by terror and pain, he reared and plunged into the devouring fire, and there ended his agony.

We placed ourselves on our knees, with the short paddles in our hands, the most skillful boatman being at the bow; and again we commenced our rapid descent.

Joe was at the bow, and because that was narrower than the main portion of the tug, it had not yet been subjected to the awful pressure.

A half-breed on board the launch caught it with his boat hook, and Adam stood at the bow, waiting for a chance to jump upon the narrow platform that lurched up above him and then plunged into the sea.

This statement supposes that there is no difference of level between the water at the bow and the water at the stern.

In the experiments on the steamer Pelican, the resistance was found to vary, as the 2.28th power of the velocity, but the deviation from the recognized law was imputed to a difference in the level of the water at the bow and stern.

They encountered a large number of canoes, nearly fifty feet in length, armed in some cases with a brass six-pounder at the bow, and each manned by sixty or seventy men actively engaged in the slave-trade.

He must hear, now, all about the Sturgis Water Line, and Ken's yachting cap with the shiny visor, and how Kirk had taken the afternoon trip three times, and howif the Maestro didn't know it alreadythe sound of water at the bow of a boat was one of the nicest noises there was.

But this subtle figure of a Master of Ceremonial; this queer old presentment of a pump-room king, crowned with a white hat, waiting all day long in his best at the bow-window of the Smyrna Coffee-House to get a bow from that other, and alas!

Ned stood ready at the bow to hurl his harpoon, and the monster was now shining again with that strange light which dazzled our eyes.

"In the afternoon of the second day after our engine stopped, I was standing at the bow, and looking over, when suddenly I noticed that there wasn't any spray dashing up in front of the vessel.

The sailor dropped an end of a long pole into the water at the bow of the houseboat and, bending heavily upon the other end, slowly pushed her forward as he walked aft along the guard.

The sailor was at the bow, standing up on the seat and gazing far across the rising and falling waters.

The schooner had her mainsail and foresail up, both bellying far outward under the impulse of the wind, while the hull keeled far over to the right in response, and the foaming water at the bow told that she was making her way at high speed toward her destination, wherever that might be.

Southward there, where amateurs now fish for trout, young Douglas rowed her ashore with muffled oars so softly that they stirred no ripple at the bow.

" Glover was at the helm just then, while Sweeny was at the bow.

He gazed curiously at her gown, at her hat, at the bow of bright ribbon that tied her black hair, and said, "Ah!" "A poor man who has kept my secret," she went on hurriedly"a man as friendless and lonely as myself.

He had thrown off his hat and knapsack and stood with his fine stature at the bow.

We were all drenched there at the bow gun.