Sternwards

Always a couple of brutes insist upon impelling you sternwards; from whom the only means to release yourself is to kick out vigorously and unmercifully, when the Arabs will possibly retreat. ❋ Unknown (2004)

With an obscene wallowing, sucking sound, the schooner's bows tore free of the soft sand, and she shot sternwards into the lagoon. ❋ Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- (1992)

The whole boat jerked sternwards abruptly with the recoil, as though when underway she had struck a rock, and the smoke came back round them in a sullen pall. ❋ Forester, C. S. (1962)

The passengers, getting wind of some excitement, were hurrying sternwards, and he pushed along with them, glad to forget his sore feelings for a minute. ❋ Fannie E. Newberry (N/A)

While sternwards whirled unstrung—pale beads of foam, ❋ Unknown (1918)

And so he bade his ships drop away sternwards; and then Earl Eric lay broadside on. ❋ Andrew Lang (1900)

In the centre, sternwards, ran a narrow refreshment bar, where a score of men were standing to refresh themselves. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)

Duff, after eating, returned to the quarter-deck, where he watched with folded arms the rather unskillful efforts to handle the long twelve pounder pointed sternwards from the Wanderer's waist. ❋ William Perry Brown (1885)

As we reached the middle of the sound opposite Armadale, there fell a dead calm; and the Betsey, more actively idle than the ship manned by the Ancient Mariner, dropped sternwards along the tide, to the dull music of the flapping sail. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)

She'll be smashed to matchwood in a minute, the after-fall has unshipped; "then whipping a knife from the belt of one of them he severed the remaining fall, and saw the boat plunge down sternwards and outwards from the side just in time; another half-minute and she would have disappeared under the steamer's bottom to be hopelessly stove in. ❋ Louis Becke (1884)

Then adding, as he casts a glance at the sky, sternwards, "The wind's going down. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)