"Is it steady or moving astern?" the captain called out.    From LearnThat.org.  [Frank Koch, Source: quoted by Stephen R.Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People]

We dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The steamer went astern at half speed.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

"Glad to hear it," returned the other, who could read our name astern as she lay athwart us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference

I demanded: but the next moment I heard his call astern and knew that, monkey-like, he had got her over and was aboard her somehow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive] Reference

The word "astern" was given as soon as the harpoon was thrown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family] Reference

The rudder is gone, and we have sprung a leak astern which is more than we can stop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armadale] Reference

Besides these she possessed two "astern" turbines and two cruising turbines -- all four on the wing shafts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility] Reference

A blue light to let us read your name astern, but you were too far off for that! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference

Three men-of-war were anchored astern and on our bows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

In passing on her way, she came astern of the Antelope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost in the Fog] Reference

Not in his time had he seen a steamer go astern quicker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Naval Yarns] Reference

There's death right astern for all of us if you delay. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference

There, in reality, was my boat towing astern by a slack line!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

The urgency of astern fire has been brought home very vividly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

The boat dropped astern, but the pilot nimbly boarded the lugger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference

"Rosetta does not lie astern of us," said the latter aside, as if to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference

The captain caught at the rope by which his boat had been towing astern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference

Tom tied the sheet astern, and, seizing his paddle, tried to scull the boat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost in the Fog] Reference

Over splashed the buoy, an empty pickle-keg, painted red, and drifted astern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

"Carry it astern, and make fast!" ordered he, like one accustomed to command.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference

"I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern," said Thomas Jefferson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Land Of The Future] Reference

"What's that big black thing out there, tumbling about in the sea astern; is it a whale?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference

Not content with this, a couple of minnows are generally trolled astern when changing ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scotch Loch-Fishing] Reference

His craft safely moored, the man drew in a small punt which was towing astern and stepped into it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

Efforts are now being made to equip the military type of aeroplane with both forward and astern firing guns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

I was awake, Browne, from whom the exclamation had proceeded, pointed to something in the water, just astern.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

The lifeboat is towed a long way astern of the tug-boat, to the full scope of a sixty fathom, five inch, white.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference

The original 250 horse-power Rolls Royce engine was installed, now driving a single large two-bladed propeller astern.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference

As a matter of fact, when the machine is travelling at high speed it trails horizontally astern, but this is immaterial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

They traveled unsteadily, too, tacking back and across the estuary, because the breeze was so light, and no longer astern.    From Wordnik.com.  [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference

A little later they were on board the sloop, answering the inquiries of Jim and Budge, while the empty pea-pod towed astern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

Her head was thus kept up to the wind, while there was no sufficient check to her drift astern and outwards towards the Goodwins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference

But now they saw a boat floating astern of the Antelope, with a small and peculiarly shaped sail, that now was flapping in the breeze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost in the Fog] Reference

In a furious blast a heavy sea broke her adrift from her anchor, and she came into helpless collision with a ship right astern of her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference