forepart
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“I’ve spent the forepart of this afternoon looking for the divorce agreement,” he tells Hardwick, “and fail to find it though once there seemed to be three or four, various versions, in drawers.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2019
"The ship was way down by the head. All the forepart was one vast sheet of flames, and it was raining drops of burning oil."
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2014
Who could be more Elated than we were, had not we been Plunged straight away into deep sorrow, for The new land gave rise to a storm that struck Our ship’s forepart.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2013
As a garden ornament the Italian Government erected at huge expense the entire forepart and bridge of the battleship Puglia, complete with searchlights and a working gun turret.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bow, or rather the platform at the forepart, rose clean out of the water, and the vessel seemed to skim along the surface.
From Swift and Sure by Strang, Herbert
