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- noun nautical The
stern area of an openboat ; theplanking that forms thefloor orseating in that area
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In the sternsheets were the mate, Walter Drake, the surgeon, Arnold
Chapter 19 2010
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In the sternsheets were the mate, Walter Drake, the surgeon, Arnold
Chapter 19 2010
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In the sternsheets were the mate, Walter Drake, the surgeon,
Chapter 19 1915
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In the sternsheets were the mate, Walter Drake, the surgeon, Arnold
The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896
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Painters were cast off, and in the sternsheets of each boat solitary white men were standing up, heads bared in graciousness of conduct to the furnace-stab of the tropic sun, as they waved additional and final farewells.
CHAPTER XXIV 2010
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It would be more comfortable in the sternsheets than in the narrow bow.
Chapter 19 2010
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The man's head nodded and his mouth opened, but before he could speak he was suppressed by a savage "Shut up!" from Watson, who was already in the sternsheets.
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Michael up, tucked him under an arm, and with him dropped into the, sternsheets of his whaleboat.
CHAPTER XXIV 2010
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So it was that Brown, thrilling with all the romance and adventure he had read and guessed and never lived, took his place in the sternsheets of a whaleboat, loaded with rifles and cartridges, rowed by four Raiatea sailors, steered by a golden-brown, sea-swimming faun, and directed through the warm tropic darkness toward the half-mythical love island of
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That the men might have room at the oars, I worked my way quickly aft into the sternsheets.
Chapter 19 2010
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