The merchantmen on all sides were bobbing away, and kicking up their sterns in the same comical fashion; and even the other frigate and corvette were playing similar pranks.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
As we lay at anchor little row-boats, with high bows and sterns, flitted about the bay like sea-birds on the wing, and rode as lightly on the surface of the water.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
There are models of one or two native-built boats in the passages and rooms; these have deep stems and shallow sterns, evidently meant to wear, rather than to go about.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch