"Starn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Page 84: starn (in your antecedents, surely it would be these two leisurely rowers and the superior person in the stern, ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... mate gave a howl: "Starn all—starn all! oh, starn!" and the oars bent like canes as we obeyed. 20 There was an upheaval of the sea just ahead; then slowly, majestically, the vast body of our foe rose into the air. Up, up it went, while my heart stood still, until the whole of that immense creature hung on high, ...
— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell
... exacts from others a sort of homage, which is certainly not rendered without protest. "There's more'n one real lady as John could ha' married if he'd a-been liked," I heard Granfer say over his beer one day. "The way they used to get he to take 'em out bathing in a boat.... Put 'en under the starn-sheets, I s'pose—he-he-he-he-he! But they real ladies du tire o' gen'lemen sometimes. Some on 'em had rather have a strong fellow like John. He married out o' the likes o' us, as 'twas. Her what he married used to eat ...
— A Poor Man's House • Stephen Sydney Reynolds |
