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"Astern" in a Sentence (15 examples)
While up the crag AEneas climbs, to gain / full prospect far and wide, and scan the distant main. / If aught of Phrygian biremes he discern / Antheus or Capys, tost upon the seas, / or arms of brave Caicus high astern.
We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land would be sinking low and dying out, but we'd give it no heed but a laugh, and never look behind.
Full astern!
Half astern!
Slow astern!
Dead slow astern!
Full speed astern!
After we had row'd, or rather driven about a League and a Half, as we reckon'd it, a raging Wave, Mountain-like, came rowling a-stern of us, and plainly bad us expect the Coup-de-Grace.
If one ship is following another, the first is astern of the second.
When we first espied the Dutch fleet sailing towards us, our whole blue squadron was astern much farther from us, so that Prince Rupert thought it absolutely necessary to slacken sail that they might have time to join us.
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Every yachtsman knows that if the ballast of a ship be too afore or too astern.
The chief engineer's evidence of the S.S. Lennox was the best given; but, as will be seen, he asserted that from the orders he received the Lennox's course was more astern than ahead.
but when near Cape Palmas the wind will perhaps be more astern
The galley fire was lighted; coffee was boiled; the sun shone brightly, and the ship astern was coming up fast.
The steamer was more than ahead of us, just on our quarter as we say, and the light was more astern.
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