sternwards
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Duff, after eating, returned to the quarter-deck, where he watched with folded arms the rather unskillful efforts to handle the long twelve pounder pointed sternwards from the Wanderer's waist.
From Ralph Granger's Fortunes by Brown, William Perry
And so he bade his ships drop away sternwards; and then Earl Eric lay broadside on.
From The Red True Story Book by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)
Rozenoffski grasped at it desperately, but it eluded him, and then descending sailed sternwards.
From Ghetto Comedies by Zangwill, Israel
The passengers, getting wind of some excitement, were hurrying sternwards, and he pushed along with them, glad to forget his sore feelings for a minute.
From All Aboard A Story for Girls by Newberry, Fannie E.
Nevertheless they could always discern from it that their course, whether stemwards or sternwards, was steadily south.
From The Well-Beloved by Hardy, Thomas
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