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Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: ...
They had, indeed, no occasion to urge the boat forwards: sternforemost, or
broadside-foremost, or whirling round and round like a reel, she was hurried on
with more than sufiicient rapidity. But n they had continually to bring her up short
by ...
2
Shadows of the Clouds by Zeta
Great ships came up out of the sea, and joined their seamy planks, and drowned
sailors gathered up their lives again, and back, sternforemost, they went to port.
Effects and causes had changed places. Final became efficient, and efficient final
...
James Anthony Froude, 1847
3
The Home friend, a weekly miscellany of amusement and ...
... and after the due formulas were gone through we were admitted to
communicate with the shore, and accordingly landed, the surf beating so heavily
upon the beach that the boat was obliged to be stranded sternforemost, and the
passengers ...
Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1852
4
Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)
... and that by dint of unskilful planting few of ourseeds ever came upat all,or,if
they didcome up, it was sternforemost; and that we spent thebetter part of
themonth of Juneinreversing a field of beans,which had thrust themselves out of
theground ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 2013
Ship launchings, like this one during World War I, always drew a crowd. World
War II launching* numbered 126, with the ships entering the water sternforemost.
On July 31, 1919, the Cape Fear was launched at Wilmington's Liberty Shipyard.
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The Rover's Secret: A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of ...
The man placedhis shoulder againstthe stemofthe boat and gave her a powerful
shove, scrambling in over the bows as she slid sternforemost into the deep water,
and thereby nearly capsizing all hands.However we managed, between us, ...
7
The Blithedale Romance:
... and drewthe earth carefully about the weeds; and thatweraised five hundred
tufts of burdock, mistaking them for cabbages;and thatby dint of unskilful
plantingfew of our seeds ever came upat all,or,if theydid come up, it was
sternforemost; ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1852
... markingever as the distance lessened more andmore particulars of that ship.
Her silken sail fluttered intatters from theyard; sherowed feebly, asone groping
indarkness, with barely strength tostay herfrom drifting sternforemost before the
wind ...
Eric Rücker Eddison, 2013
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History of the United States During the Administration of ...
As the “Chesapeake” drifted sternforemost toward the “Shannon,” every gun in
the British broadside swept the American deck diagonally from stern to stem,
clearing the quarter-deck and beating in 294 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
.
10
The Missing Merchantman
The shipis now adrift,and driving slowly sternforemost toward the outer basin.
Solongas we see no sign of alarm from the people on shore I shall let her drive;
that will increase our chances of a good start.But the moment you seeany
indication ...
