| Note the notches in the sternhook to receive the inwales, and that the sternsheets are notched over the ribs. |
| Speaking of three people aboard, the dory rowed and handled surprisingly well with two at the oars and one on the sternsheets steering. |
| At the last moment Captain Kellar had caught Michael up, tucked him under an arm, and with him dropped into the sternsheets of his whaleboat. |
| He proved to be the man who had been in the sternsheets and had cast the rope off the bollard just before the wave caught the boat. |
| The officer in the sternsheets shouts up to the quarterdeck the news that Arnold is expecting. |
| Captain Ahab, with his leg miraculously intact for this voyage, was standing imperiously by the sternsheets barking out orders to his crew. |
