They were fond of sitting on that anchor, and they generally tucked away their pipes under it, for the Helen B. was a dry boat in most weather, and like most fore-and-afters was better on a wind than going free.
"Man Overboard!"
F(rancis) Marion Crawford
He soon came to know them all-French brigs and chasse-marees, Russian fore-and-afters, Dutch billyboys, galliots from the East coast, and Thames hay-barges with vanes and wind-boards.
"The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales"
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
A fleet of fore-and-afters at anchor has its own slender graciousness.
"The Mirror of the Sea"
Joseph Conrad