Stern Line

An ominous, minute snapping noise came from the stern-line. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Unloosing the stern-line, which alone held her, the boat was borne on by the rapid stream. ❋ Warren T. Ashton (N/A)

Kirk, a little apprehensive, stumbled aft and felt for the stern-line. ❋ Edith Ballinger Price (1947)

He passed the bight of the stern-line in a triple loop around the drum of the windlass, and without awaiting his instructions, the girl grasped the slack of the line and prepared to walk away with it as the rope paid in on the windlass. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Manila stern-line to which it was attached, and slipped the loop of the mooring-cable over the dolphin at the end of the dock. ❋ Unknown (1918)

"Some men wanted aft here to take up the slack of the stern-line on the windlass, sir," he shouted to the skipper, who was walking around on top of the house. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The stern-line was the same -- cut square and clean. ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)

We can go up the Danube to Vienna, up the Thames to London, and we can go up the Seine to Paris and moor opposite the Latin Quarter with a bow-line out to Notre Dame and a stern-line fast to the Morgue. ❋ Unknown (1913)

Seine to Paris and moor opposite the Latin Quarter with a bow-line out to Notre Dame and a stern-line fast to the Morgue. ❋ Unknown (1911)

Then he got in and adjusted his stern-line as before -- it became the bow-line for the return journey. ❋ Hulbert Footner (1911)

We can go up the Danube to Vienna, up the Thames to London, and we can go up the Seine to Paris and moor opposite the Latin Quarter, with a bow-line out to Notre Dame and a stern-line to the Morgue. ❋ Unknown (1906)

"Stand by the stern-line to throw off, Hank," called Captain Tom, as he raced out onto the dock and made a plunge for the bow hawser. ❋ Unknown (1895)

Lay her in shore and stand by to jump with the stern-line the moment she touches. ❋ Unknown (1879)

The now-and-then schooner was to sail for San Francisco about nine; when I reached the dock she was free forward and was just casting off her stern-line. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)