astern

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Astern, three steps down from the salon, lies the master stateroom, replete with a queen-size berth and a gloriously comfortable innerspring mattress.

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Astern of her another merchantman began to founder in the icy sea.

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Enterprise had slipped away in the low breeze like a bird and, running far in the lead, hung over her taffrail in mockery her harbor sign, "Please Keep Astern."

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Astern, cut off from ship's officers by the fire, frightened passengers in night clothes prayed, shrieked, sang "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here."

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Astern of us the island coastline faded, and no land showed anywhere, but only sea and heaven, when Zeus Krom'on piled a thunderhead above the ship, while gloom spread on the ocean.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer