53 Verbs to Use for the Word sterns

He touched the diver and they went back along the alleyway and round the vessel's stern.

The Spanish crew were pulling hard and a passenger occupied the stern.

To have built one there, as in the two foremost ones, although it would have given a little more reserve of buoyancy to the ship, would have raised the stern higher than the bows, and so would have increased the upward pressure on the wooden deck, and thus have increased the liability to burst up.

Before he could be heard in his own behalf the cruel eye of his uncle had grown stern, and Bull was condemned as a culprit.

" "A woman from a neighboring plantation came where I was, on a visit; she came in a boat rowed by six slaves, who, according to the common practice, were left to take care of themselves, and having laid them down in the boat and fallen asleep, the tide fell, and the water filling the stern of the boat, wet their mistresses trunk of clothes.

We were not a minute, or two at the most, behind him; but, when we got on the other side of the slaver, boat and man had vanished!" "He doubled her bows while you were crossing the stern.

The difference of size between the Martial race and my own was forcibly impressed upon me, in seeing that Esmo and his son found this assistance needful, or at least convenient, while I simply stepped rather than jumped to the deck, and lifted Eveena straight from her carriage to her seat under the canopy that covered the stern of the vessel.

I had been below some time, looking over the books in the captain's room, and when I came on deck I saw the stern of the ship, perhaps a mile or two distant, and sailing away.

If Lister's calculations were accurate, the pump had thrown out enough water, and the buoyancy of the other craft would lift the wreck's stern.

Then baling out the seat-room, I took some crackers and a draught of water, and turned the boat stern foremost to the sea.

Three carronades gave way under the blows of the cannon; then, as if blind and not knowing what more to do, it turned its back on the man, rolled from stern to bow, injured the stern and made a breach in the planking of the prow.

That big 'X' of the Truxton flung stern up, as she sank; ... and about the old Captain wriggling his shoulder bashfully for his young friend's arm at the last....

When we had got the stern of the vessel into the sand we discovered that we had not accomplished much, for the said sand being very loose, almost of the character of quicksand, and the sea running high, the stern kept sinking almost as rapidly as when it had nothing but water below it.

The Moorish ships were all drawn on the beach in a close line, having their sterns to the shore, and were well armed with ordnance, and had many soldiers on board armed with bows and arrows, a considerable number of them being men of a fair complexion.

However, after a while, they hoisted up the stern of the boat, and he got safely on board.

Gently moving his paddle this way and that, M. Jacques held the stern to the swell, till suddenly he shouted "One time!"

Some one was inspecting her stern from a platform swung over the rail, and to Mr. Heatherbloom's strained vision this person's interest, or concern, centered in the mechanism of her rudder.

"If I know the stern from the bows of a ship, what you say is truth," returned the other, with some austerity.

Greenleaf and Miss Sandford took their seats amidships, leaving the stern for the boatman.

They disclosed an irregular trench, in which, filled with sand, lay the half-excavated stern of a boat.

It was making his voice stern and his eyes hard, so that they could see nothing round him but stupidity and distrust and an obstinacy even greater than his own.

'My own true love in Burley Walk Does hunt to-night, I fear; And if he meet my father stern, His game may cost him dear.

Another overhand stroke, and he just missed the wobbling stern of the light skiff.

I'll seek the shaggy fern-clad hill And watch, 'mid murmurs muttering stern, The seed departing from the fern Ere wakeful demons can convey The wonder-working charm away.

The whole upper structure also overhangs the stern, and protects the screw and rudder.

53 Verbs to Use for the Word  sterns