Lexicographical Neighbors of Forewind
Literary usage of Forewind
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poems of John Donne by John Donne, James Russell Lowell, Grolier Club (1895)
"Verse statues are all robbers, all we make Of monument thus doth not give but
take ; As sails which seamen to a forewind fit By a resistance go along with ..."
2. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1845)
"And straight the mast upright they set and bind, And hoist their sails with ropes
of good cow-hide; 255 And Pallas sent them a good strong forewind, . ..."
3. Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland (1885)
"Put forth, therefore, my lord, with full confidence, having your sails filled
with her heavenly breath for a forewind."8 If Essex were not nauseated with ..."
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