Crossword-Solution: STERNWARD 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

But how the gods repent when they have sunk men in the blackest pit of despair, sending them a messenger of hope to steady their hearts! Good fortune had willed that we should be so placed upon the deck that we faced most easily sternward.

Originally canoes, they were improved to the felucca-type of the Portuguese, and the hulls reminded Cameron and myself of the Zanzibarian 'Mtepe.' A strong standing-awning of wood occupies the sternward third; the masts number two or three, with a short jib, and there are six oars on each side, worked by men on foot, who alternately push and pull--a thoroughly novel process in rowing.

The wheel and the navigating instruments were sternward, under a spread of heavy canvas, a protection against rain and sun.

Dan watched the distressed craft as she tossed up her bow and glided sternward from his view behind a jet of black wave, while the _Fledgling_ seemed to slide from under his feet in the opposite direction.

With the brutal sternward pressure produced by the landing-rockets, it felt as if it were speeding madly back where it had come from.