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Sentences starting with aft

Aft again! [5]

Sentences ending with aft

They wouldn't even walk aft. [5]
The deck was never quiet for a moment, and seldom nearer level than a ladder, and noble were the seas which leapt aboard and went flooding aft. [5]
And so, with my clothes sucking to my body and a trail of water behind me like that of a wet walrus, I accompanied the captain aft. [9]
Then he drew himself carefully up, and on his hands and knees passed to the starboard side and moved aft. [11]
Further gossip;--after which, everybody went below to get afternoon coffee, and left me at the wheel, alone, Something presently reminded me of our last hour in St. Louis, part of which I spent on this boat's hurricane deck, aft. [5]
One night the boat struck a snag in the head of Kentucky Bend, and sank with astonishing suddenness; water already well above the cabin floor when the captain got aft. [5]
Presently he turned and walked aft. [11]
Then out of an habitual good-nature he tried to bring better weather fore and aft. [11]
He then went aft. [11]

More example sentences with the word aft in them

They drew the wood-boat aft, and they and the captain fought back the frantic herd of frightened immigrants till the wounded could be brought there and placed in safety first. [5]
So then they washed their faces in the river; and just then there was a loud order to stand by for a crossing, and some of them went forward to man the sweeps there, and the rest went aft to handle the after-sweeps. [5]
If the boat was known to make her best speed when drawing five and a half feet forward and five feet aft, she was carefully loaded to that exact figure--she wouldn't enter a dose of homoeopathic pills on her manifest after that. [5]
The final stroke was in the splash door aft the wheel. [7]
If the ship was "down by the head," and would not steer, he would go and move his "trunk" further aft, and then watch the effect. [5]
If the ship was "down by the head," and would got steer, he would go and move his "trunk" farther aft, and then watch the effect. [5]
They were obliged to retreat aft to the deckcabin. [11]
We went aft to find some breakfast, and the first thing we noticed was that there was a dim light burning in a compass back there under a hood. [5]
And pretty soon there was a regular storm, and in the middle of it a man that was running aft stumbled and fell and sprained his ankle so that he had to lay up. [5]
The next moment the sounding-yawl swept aft to the wheel and was struck and splintered to atoms. [5]
So I dropped on my hands and knees in the little passage, and crept aft in the dark till there warn't but one stateroom betwixt me and the cross-hall of the texas. [5]
On each side of the car, and running fore and aft, was a broad leather-covered sofa to sit on in the day and sleep on at night. [5]
The officers did not notice that one of these sailors winked an eye at another, and that both then grinned, and were promptly ordered aft by the second lieutenant. [11]
Heavy sea all night, and from 4 A.M. very wet, the sea breaking over us in frequent sluices, and soaking everything aft, particularly. [5]
I snatched the neglected glasses from the deck and hurried aft to join my client on the overhang, but a pipe was all they revealed above the bleak hillocks of sand. [9]
Haw the head mule!--the aft one gee! [5]
When we 'uz mos' down to de head er de islan' a man begin to come aft wid de lantern, I see it warn't no use fer to wait, so I slid overboard en struck out fer de islan'. [5]
At length, one morning, Captain Griggs came out of his cabin and climbed upon the poop, calling all hands aft to the quarterdeck. [9]
Now came the mate, hurrying aft, and said, close to the captain's ear, in a low, agitated voice: "Prepare for the worst, sir--we have sprung a leak! [5]
Now we were light-manned, two half-breeds and two Canadians to handle the oars in time of peril, and Captain Xavier, who stood aft on the cabin roof, leaning against the heavy beam of the long, curved tiller, watching hawklike for snag and eddy and bar. [9]
I watched him in amazement as he tore a mattress from an adjoining bunk and forced it through the opening, spreading it fore and aft over the stones. [9]
None of the four that remained could do more than haul aft and belay a sheet. [9]
It was the fore-and-aft gear that was broken--the thing that leads aft from the forward part of the horse and is made fast to the thing that pulls the wagon. [5]
We paced the deck in silence; and once, as we walked far aft, I saw, leaning upon the railing of the intermediate deck, and looking towards us--Boyd Madras; and the words of that letter which he wrote on the No Man's Sea came to me. [11]
Sure enough, at crowdie-time, the men were seen coming aft, with Maxwell in the van carrying a bowl, on the pretext of a complaint against the cook. [9]
From the dazzling completeness of the snug saloon we were taken aft to see two coops filled with fowls. [11]
Brigond started aft, but Gaspard sprang before him. [11]
We made a break aft and raised a wail, and begun to beg the professor to turn back and land us, but he jerked out his pistol and motioned us back, and we went, but nobody will ever know how bad we felt. [5]
Presently the sky became overcast, and the captain came aft looking uneasy. [5]
It used to annoy the elephant at first, and he would reach up and take her down, but she would go aft and climb up again. [5]
He went aft and set down, but he couldn't seem to git that thing out of his mind. [5]
We never said a word, but went straight up onto the hurricane-deck and plumb back aft, and set down on the end of the sky-light. [5]
Her lowest deck (too low for the purpose) was pierced aft with three ports on a side, and six worn-out eighteen-pounders mounted there. [9]

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