“Luke was found by himself at the stern of the ship, just staring away into the sky.”

“The sternness of the warning may indicate his need of constant self-control.”

“As the severity of military operations increases, so also must the sternness of the discipline.”

“Austerity and sternness will alienate his affections, and severe words will sting him to the quick.”

“The man is nearly swept off of the deck where he had been standing but gets wedged in between the sternpost and the rudder.”

“The stern was thrown upward 20 feet, and the rudder and sternpost were torn out of her.”

“Singularly enough a part of it was used for the sternpost of the frigate Essex.”

“The officer in the sternsheets shouts up to the quarterdeck the news that Arnold is expecting.”

“At the last moment Captain Kellar had caught Michael up, tucked him under an arm, and with him dropped into the sternsheets of his whaleboat.”

“He proved to be the man who had been in the sternsheets and had cast the rope off the bollard just before the wave caught the boat.”

“The sternwheel steamboat Delta Queen is paddling slowly along the Tennessee River, the early morning sun burning off wispy fog rising from a placid surface.”

“She was roused from it by the scream of a whistle, and the hoonch-hoonch of a sternwheel steamer.”

“Their arrival signalled the end of the era of the small hand built scow and ushered in the era of commercial sternwheel navigation on the upper Yukon River.”

“Luke was found by himself at the stern of the ship, just staring away into the sky.”

“With fine entries and tumblehome sterns, the boat may look like a canoe when viewed from a distance, but any similarities end there.”

“The Hull shape is of round bilge construction with bulbous bow and sterns keg, flared stem and transom stern.”

“The hull shape is of a round bilge construction with bulbous bow and sterns keg, flared stem and transom stern.”