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  • PORT AND STARBOARD SAY GOOD-BYE Port and Starboard, sleeping in the forecabin of the Teasel, missed the excitements of the night.

    Coot Club Ransome, Arthur 1934

  • The independent firm will be called Starboard Value LP and will still be run by Jeff Smith, Mark Mitchell and Peter Feld.

    MarketWatch.com - Top Stories 2011

  • 'Haul in again, Tom,' called Starboard, who without cutting the string had made it fast to the end of the big coil of rope that had not been used since they came through Yarmouth.

    Coot Club Ransome, Arthur 1934

  • 'Will that do?' called Starboard, as the Teasel slid alongside a low grassy bank.

    Coot Club Ransome, Arthur 1934

  • And when the parrots -- "Port" and "Starboard" -- ripped out such remarks as

    The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

  • "Starboard," said the man promptly, eyeing him with astonishment.

    Many Cargoes 1903

  • "Starboard," muttered the Serang to the helmsman; and the Sofala began to swing round the bend into the second reach.

    Youth And Two Other Stories 1899

  • He noticed that the carpenters marked each piece of timber with a capital letter, S.L. A. or F.; and he soon found that these were the initials of the words "Starboard," "Larboard," "Aft," and "Forward."

    Frederick Douglass The Colored Orator. 1895

  • "Starboard," muttered the Serang to the helmsman; and the Sofala began to swing round the bend into the second reach.

    The End of the Tether Joseph Conrad 1890

  • At the same moment the Tennessee, which till that time had lain to the eastward of the buoy, went ahead to the westward of it, and Craven, either fearing she would got away from him or moved by the seeming narrowness of the open way, gave the order "Starboard" and pushed the Tecumseh straight at the enemy.

    The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. 1877

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