Sentence example with the word 'sternway'

sternway

Last update: September 5, 2015


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Suddenly, glancing up at the dim cloud of sails above, I saw that we were aback and making sternway.   [Please select]

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He stopped his ship, and then backed water, making sternway to the Hartford, so as to stop her also.   [Please select]

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After pausing a moment for the steamer to lose her sternway, I rang the other bell, intending to have her go ahead; but the engineer did not heed my summons.   [Please select]

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