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- noun Plural form of
stern .
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Hawthorne would be left from the count, the best exemplar of the fine art of moral narrative in any language; Henry James would be left out, the master of them all in psychological character analysis; Poe the story-teller would be missing, and the art of the modern short story, which in English sterns from him; Cooper would be lost from our accounting, for all his crudities the best historical novelist after Scott; Mark Twain, Howells, Bret Harte,
Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Henry Seidel Canby 1919
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Dont we see yester day, Berns and sterns, and today, Goldman sachs ....
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Bozo The Neoclown says: hey tard @469, please name on bank which tanked since president obama was inaugurated. was it bears sterns? goldman sachs? which was it?
Think Progress » Chuck Todd: ‘The Tea Party gets a big benefit’ from Fox News’ promotion. 2010
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Two winners have open sterns, forming a harbour within the ship up to 85m long into which the daughter ships would sail, sheltered from the elements.
New offshore windfarm technologies in the battle against seasickness 2011
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Chinese ships of the period had rudders attached to their sterns - an Eastern innovation that took centuries to reach Europe.
Jim Luce: Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet Found in Japan Jim Luce 2011
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Beyond, drawn up on the beach, he could see the big war-canoes, with high and fantastically carved bows and sterns, ornamented with scrolls and bands of white cowrie shells.
Chapter 11 2010
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But what at first seemed to be logs lying on the exposed bed of the drought-stricken lake turned out to be dugout canoes, their bows and sterns emerging from the mud.
A Vessel of Indian Culture Stuart Ferguson 2011
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Chinese ships of the period had rudders attached to their sterns - an Eastern innovation that took centuries to reach Europe.
Jim Luce: Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet Found in Japan Jim Luce 2011
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Beneath them lay a canal or sluggish river, upon which men punted slowly in narrow boats with high, ungainly sterns.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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The Greeks, all thrust up at their sterns, have pour'd out tears enow,
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