Sterns

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, ❋ Henry Seidel Canby (1919)

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? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Dont we see yester day, Berns and sterns, and today, Goldman sachs .... ❋ Unknown (2010)

Chinese ships of the period had rudders attached to their sterns - an Eastern innovation that took centuries to reach Europe. ❋ Jim Luce (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Stuart Ferguson (2011)

Beneath them lay a canal or sluggish river, upon which men punted slowly in narrow boats with high, ungainly sterns. ❋ Rose Melikan (2010)

The Greeks, all thrust up at their sterns, have pour'd out tears enow, ❋ Unknown (2008)

On both fractured tankers, men were trapped on the severed bows and sterns, and all four sections were sinking in sixty-foot seas. ❋ MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS (2010)

We made good time and came in down the West Side, the sun high over the Hudson, past sailboat marinas and massive cruise ships, their white sterns sticking out beyond the piers, as if mooning all points west. ❋ DAVID GOODWILLIE (2010)

Next I sought the countless fleet, a wonder to behold, that I might fill my girlish eyes with gazing, a sweet delight. 'the warlike Myrmidons from Phthia held the right wing with fifty swift cruisers, upon whose sterns, right at the ends, stood Nereid goddesses in golden-effigy, the ensign of Achilles' armament. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And anyone who says sterns show is all about T&A is someone who has never listened to the show … ❋ Unknown (2006)

Taking one of a great number of lively little boats with gay-striped awnings, we rowed away, under the sterns of great ships, under tow-ropes and cables, against and among other boats, and very much too near the sides of vessels that were faint with oranges, to the Marie Antoinette, a handsome steamer bound for Genoa, lying near the mouth of the harbour. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But when they are really close to the hare they will make the matter plain to the huntsman by various signs — the quivering of their bodies backwards and forwards, sterns and all; the ardour meaning business; the rush and emulaton; the hurry-scurry to be first; the patient following-up of the whole pack; at one moment massed together, and at another separated; and once again the steady onward rush. ❋ Unknown (2007)