"Forrard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... many people took, It had such pooty ways and such a pooty look; And there came a lady forrard (I wish that I could see Any kind lady as would do as much ...
— Ballads • William Makepeace Thackeray
... Wiley; "but nobody's willin' to take the advice of a man that's seen the world an' lived in large places, an' the risin' generation is in a turrible hurry. I don' know how 't is: young folks air allers settin' the clock forrard an' the old ...
— Homespun Tales • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... thing. If you was in a ship, fighting that other ship, you wouldn't want just to blaze away at her broadside. No. You'd want to hit her so as your shot would rake all along her decks from the bow aft, or from the stern forrard. You wait a second, Master Jim, till the wind gives her bows a skew towards you, or till her stern swings round more. There she goes. Are you ready? Now, as she comes round; allow for ...
— Jim Davis • John Masefield
... her handsome, or saw that she would be, or what, I do not know; or whether he looked "forrard," as he would ...
— Amaryllis at the Fair • Richard Jefferies
... Doed heerd him tell o' squirrels, he bethowt him o' t' squirrel i' t' basket an' wanted to set forrard. ...
— More Tales of the Ridings • Frederic Moorman
... him to one of her scowls that astonished him, and suddenly, setting his teeth, Louis put down his glass, took her arm roughly and, striding along blindly, made forrard. ...
— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles |
