starn

• “As soon as he had steadied himself in his new position, a piece of rope was thrown up to him, -- by which Snowball was himself hoisted to the shoulders of the _cachalot_; and then the two seamen proceeded towards the tail, -- or, as the sailor pronounced it, the "starn" of this peculiar craft.”

  The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea

• “And quo 'they, "Whaur is he bidin that is ca'd King o' the Jews? for i 'the East we saw his starn, and are come forrit to worship him. ”

  01/01/2003 - 02/01/2003

• “Eftir hearing the King, they gaed awa '; and lo! the starn whilk they saw i' the East gaed on afore them, till it stood whaur the wee bairn was.”

  01/01/2003 - 02/01/2003

• “And whan they saw the starn, they were blythe wi 'unco blythness.”

  01/01/2003 - 02/01/2003

• “Than, Herod, convenin the Wyss Men privately, faund oot mair strickly o 'the comin o' the starn;”

  01/01/2003 - 02/01/2003

• “Secretary, ‘Down-by-the-starn’ Hemmings; an all-too-sad sadness beaming in his fine eyes; his iron-grey beard, in mourning like the rest of him, giving the feeling of an all-too-black tie behind it.”

  The Man of Property

• “He answered ‘Down-by-the-starn’ Hemmings so tartly when the latter, seeing his Chairman seated there, entered with the new”

  The Man of Property

• “(Down-by-the-starn) had been head of that office for more years than a boy like him could count, and if he thought that when he had finished all his work, he could sit there doing nothing, he did not know him, Hemmings (Down-by-the-starn), and so forth.”

  The Man of Property

• “It was not — by George — as he (Down-by-the-starn) would have him know, for a whippersnapper of a young fellow like him, to come down to that office, and think that he was God Almighty.”

  The Man of Property

• “All chips off the old block from stem to the starn.”

  Cawsand Bay

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