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“Don’t any of you fire till I tell you,” he said to his men, while he took aim so as to strike the ground a few yards in front of the headmost of the party.
From The Three Commanders by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
At seven o'clock the headmost ships were dismasted; a fire-raft was observed dropping down from them on the Orion.
From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I by Sir John Ross
Though he endeavoured to near them, he intended not to make any attack until the Defiance had got abreast of the headmost.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
The two headmost French ships then tacked, one placing herself alongside to windward, and the other on the Glatton’s bow, while the other ships engaged her on her lee-quarter and stern.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
Both were riding in straggling clumps, and scarcely two hundred paces separated the rearmost of the pursued from the headmost of the pursuers.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid
