It then made a stern-board, but before it could reach the bows the boatswain gave it a stroke with the axe which nearly gullyteened it; you know, shipmates, what that is. ❋ Frederick Hoffman (N/A)
Since then she had drifted, sometimes making a stern-board, sometimes going ahead a little, but nearly always drifting slowly shoreward, flogging her gear, making a great clatter of blocks. ❋ John Masefield (1922)
Then we righted suddenly, came up into the wind with our sails slatting, and made a stern-board. ❋ John Masefield (1922)
She offered him strings of blue and white shells, and a copper canoe with a stern-board of copper and a copper bailer. ❋ Unknown (1920)
_Fledgling_, struggling bravely, if wearily, upward to meet a wave, would stop half-way with a jerk and a sigh, the wave gouging along the deck -- breaking over the stern-board. ❋ Lawrence Perry (1914)
Ten feet -- a plank wrenched clear of the mass and shot on ahead, ramming out the lifeboat's stern-board, above the water line. ❋ Lawrence Perry (1914)
From the stern-sheets the dog barked at me joyously, wagging his tail, with his fore-feet on the edge of the stern-board. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
Hendry Watty pulled in hand over fist; and in came the lead sinker over the notch, and still the line was heavy; be pulled and he pulled, and next, all out of the dead waste of the night, came two white hands, like a washerwoman's, and gripped hold of the stern-board; and on the left of these two hands, on the little finger, was a silver ring, sunk very deep in the flesh. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
Together we balanced it on the gunwale, and with the help of the stern-board tilted it over. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
Within the stern-board, in cut letters from which the cheap paint had scaled, was a name plain to read -- _Two Brothers_. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
It was a somewhat difficult matter to get so big a ship under way in the rather thickly crowded anchorage, and we were obliged at the outset to make a rather long and complicated stern-board, which entailed two or three very narrow shaves of fouling one or another of the craft that were in our way. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
The square canvas was now thrown flat aback and the ship soon gathered stern-way, when, by a judicious and skilful manipulation of the helm and braces, a stern-board was made and the vessel backed into the indentation and to its farthest extremity, a distance of about two cables'-lengths. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
Presently she righted, and then made a stern-board, and came so close to us that one of the hands not only heard our cries but saw us in the water. ❋ Louis Becke (1884)
_Cigale_ -- that was her name, painted on the stern-board; but there was nothing to show her port or the flag she flew. ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)
The bowmen fastened to the second cutter, and recovering her painter, passed it astern to the coxswain, who made it fast to a ring on the stern-board. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)
As soon as the smoke blew away, he saw that the shot had passed obliquely into the boat, striking the stern-board just behind Major Pierson, and splitting off the plank near the water-line. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)
You sit upright against the stern-board, with your legs stretched out in the bottom. ❋ Bayard Taylor (1851)
At last I went below on the night of the 10th, but hardly had I turned in and got my eyes well closed when I was aroused up again by a terrific uproar, and, rushing on deck and hurrying for'ard, I found that the Lowestoffe was taken aback and was making a stern-board right down upon us. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
He cast over the side a rope-ladder, such as is in common use on board ships, and we climbed to the quarterdeck, over the stern-board of which, and covering the companion-hatch, there had been built a roof, or open cabin, making that part of the brig answer the same purposes as the porch of a house. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
Her head turned a few points to the eastward -- she made a stern-board -- the water rushed in torrents up her decks and into her hold -- the foam flew wildly over her side, and shrieks, and cries, and oaths, extorted by the agony of despair, escaped from her maddened crew, as they beheld their inevitable doom. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
