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sterns - definition and meaning
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noun stern .
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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,
Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Henry Seidel Canby 1919
Dont we see yester day, Berns and sterns , and today, Goldman sachs ....
Senate committee debates Wall Street reform bill 2010
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?
Think Progress » Chuck Todd: ‘The Tea Party gets a big benefit’ from Fox News’ promotion. 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.
New offshore windfarm technologies in the battle against seasickness 2011
Chinese ships of the period had rudders attached to their sterns - an Eastern innovation that took centuries to reach Europe.
Jim Luce: Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet Found in Japan 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.
Chapter 11 2010
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.
A Vessel of Indian Culture Stuart Ferguson 2011
Chinese ships of the period had rudders attached to their sterns - an Eastern innovation that took centuries to reach Europe.
Jim Luce: Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet Found in Japan Jim Luce 2011
Beneath them lay a canal or sluggish river, upon which men punted slowly in narrow boats with high, ungainly sterns .
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
The Greeks, all thrust up at their sterns , have pour'd out tears enow,
Historical References to the Oceanides 2008
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