Sentences with phrase «astern as»

Approaching the Queen Mary 2 from astern as she lay in her berth at Southampton, on the south coast of England, I was struck by her enormous beam and bulk.

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As the boat moves closer, the rearguard of eiders, snowy - white and black drakes and drab, brown hens patters clumsily across the surface, their wings, set well astern on their bodies, revving up until finally they get up above the waves.

In fact, she was headed, as were all of the ships astern of her in follow - the - leader fashion, for jagged rock pinnacles and reefs off Point Arguello.