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

She was a strong child and by a great effort she succeeded in raising its forepart from the ground so that it hung suspended.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a few seconds the forepart of the vessel lifted; it skimmed along the surface of the stream; and the banks began to whizz past at twenty, thirty, and presently forty miles an hour.

From Swift and Sure by Strang, Herbert