Before they had gone a quarter of the distance the hounds suddenly struck the scent at a hedge-row, and, with heads up and sterns down, went straight away at a pace that annihilated all hope.
Mr. Sponge, capping the hounds on, when away they went, heads up and sterns down as before.
They were ready to come to the rescue, being out of danger themselves, and being able to effect a movement to right or left, by steering along the sterns of their own ships and through the open sea unmolested.
Boats for the transportation of troops were launched, and moored under the sterns of the men-of-war.
Let the Achaeans be hemmed in at the sterns of their ships, and perish on the sea-shore, that they may reap what joy they may of their king, and that Agamemnon may rue his blindness in offering insult to the foremost of the Achaeans.
Achaeans, like Achilles, are in anger with me that they refuse to fight by the sterns of our ships.
Would you wait till the Trojans reach the sterns of our ships as they lie on the shore, to see whether the son of Saturn will hold his hand over you to protect you?
At a given signal, the vessels started and dashed forward upon the cetaceous army: the whales plunged into the abysses of the water, and, reappearing at the sterns of the fleet, sent up a shower of spurts in derision of their timorous enemy.
The blunt, rounded prows and heavysterns of the English or Dutch vessels were replaced by American models, sharp, nothing superfluous, and riding the waters as easy as a bird.
Hast thou not heard that Ajax, brave in the din of battle, smote me with a stone upon the breast, and caused me to cease from impetuous valour, when slaying his companions at the sterns of the Grecian ships?
So I also, when the great crest-tossing Hector was thus[629] destroying the Greeks at the sterns of the ships, was not able to forget the wrong which I had formerly foolishly committed.
Some he found no longer quite unhurt, nor yet destroyed, whilst others again lay at the sterns of the ships of the Greeks, having lost their lives by the hands of the Greeks; and others were stricken or wounded within the wall.
Then Ajax and Teucer aiming at him together, the one smote him with an arrow in the splendid belt of his mortal-girding shield, around his breast; but Jove averted the fate from his son, that he might not be slain at the sterns of the ships.
Ye gods, surely the other well-greaved Greeks, as well as Achilles, store up wrath against me in their minds; nor are they willing to fight at the sterns of the ships.
The weakness of thesterns of the ironclad boats, their slowness and difficulty in handling, were well known to the Confederate authorities.
The sterns of the vessels--their weakest part--were to be specially protected against raking shots, which was done by piling wet bales of hay and slinging heavy logs near the water line.
The immense square sterns and full bows originally copied from the Dutch (who built their ships apparently on their own model) gave place to more shapely sterns and sharper bows.
His execution was effected in the most horrible manner, his arms and legs being severally tied to the sterns of four galleys, which were rowed in four different directions, thus quartering him.
A medium-sized sail, however, capable of being used for reaching or beating, is all that is really required.
There is neither cruelty nor professionalism in yachting, except when certain foolish snobs in sheer wantonness shoot the too-confiding gulls that hover round the sterns of their yachts.
Why more of our little cruisers are not constructed with these lifeboat sterns I could never understand.
Those whose sterns merely twine, and by constricting certain parts of their support, induce death.
They passed to leeward of us, and out of hailing distance; but the captain could read the names on their sterns with the glass.
In the deeper parts, they point theirsterns into the air and stick their heads under water.
Underneath, in a pool of sanies, is a surging mass of swarming sterns and pointed heads, which emerge, wriggle and dive in again.
In this broth the maggots wallow, wriggling their bodies and, from time to time, sticking the breathing holes in their sterns above the water.
We went a-fishing in long boats With bending sterns and bending bows, And carven figures on their prows Of bitterns and fish-eating stoats.
In spaniels, feathered sternsand long ears are much admired, but obviously the latter must suffer in thick underwood.
Apparently they feel safe only when they get their sterns up against something.
Musk-oxen, when stopped, invariably form a circle with their sterns in and their heads out; it matters not whether the herd is thirty or half a dozen, their action is the same.
In the same book he bids Thetis pray to Zeus to "hem the Achaeans among the sterns of their ships, given over to slaughter.
What Achilles bids Thetis ask from Zeus is, "hem the Achaeans among their ships' sterns about the bay, that they may make trial of their king.
Headlong Hector shall not refrain from battle till that Peleus' son shall have arisen beside the ships, on that day when these shall fight amid the sterns in most grievous stress around Patroclus fallen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sterns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
