Use deck in a sentence
Sentences ending with deck
- What time shall we see you on deck? [11]
- The sea was washing over the deck. [11]
- Dimsdale beckoned them up on deck. [11]
- That was an uncomfortable hour; for there was a big audience on the hurricane deck. [5]
- Boyd Madras was transferred to a cabin far forward, but he did not appear at any meal in the saloon, or on deck. [11]
- My eyes shifted to the lights of the 'Porcupine' in the distance, and from them again to the figures passing and repassing me on the deck. [11]
- The festivities, so to speak, closed with another of those miraculous balls on the promenade deck. [5]
- He'll do that till we've got twenty or thirty men on deck! [11]
- The moonlight filtered through the chinks in the burlap shrouding the deck. [9]
- She could hear the storm breaking over the deck. [11]
Short sentences using deck
- The deck was empty. [11]
- Evening, promenading the deck. [5]
- I remained on deck. [10]
- I was on deck, alone. [5]
- All hands on deck! [5]
- I went on deck again. [11]
- The boiler deck (i.e. [5]
Sentences containing deck two or more times
- Even the steps up which I groped my way to the deck above were filled, while on the deck there was standing-room only and not much of that. [9]
- As we moved out of the harbour we passed close to the 'Porcupine' and saw its officers grouped on the deck, waving adieus to some one on our deck, whom I guessed, of course, to be Galt Roscoe. [11]
- We paced the deck in silence; and once, as we walked far aft, I saw, leaning upon the railing of the intermediate deck, and looking towards us--Boyd Madras; and the words of that letter which he wrote on the No Man's Sea came to me. [11]
- Everybody stays on deck as much as possible, and lies wrapped up and spread out at full length on his or her sea-chair, so that the deck looks as if it had a row of mummies on exhibition. [6]
More example sentences with the word deck in them
- Holgate, the young Yorkshire engineer, pulled himself up to the deck two steps of the ladder at a time. [11]
- The surgeon, however, would not permit Bucklaw to be removed until he had been cared for, and so Phips and Gering went on deck and made preparations for the treasure- hunt. [11]
- But the captain would have none of the precautions he urged; declared he would walk the deck as usual, and vowed he could cope single-handed with a dozen cowards like Maxwell. [9]
- Its deck glittered with precious stones. [10]
- When I sat with her on deck at night, I seemed to feel Boyd Madras's face looking at me from the half-darkness of the after-deck; and Mrs. Falchion, whose keen eyes missed little, remarked once on my gaze in that direction. [11]
- And Miss Trevor, with a mirthful glance at me that was not without a tinge of triumph, jumped lightly to the deck and went in to see the invalids. [9]
- At last Richambeau, who had watched the whole business from the deck of the Victoire, burst out laughing, and sent for Elie Mattingley. [11]
- A thousand blossoms, white, red, blue and yellow, swayed on their slender stalks, opened their calixes to the bees, unfolded their stars to deck the woodland carpet, or proudly stretched themselves up as straight as candles. [10]
- A morning came when I went on deck to survey spaces of a blue and white sea swept by the white March sunlight; to discern at length against the horizon toward which we sped a cloud of the filmiest and most delicate texture and design. [9]
- All five Arabs were stretched on the deck, and the insatiate boatmen were dealing a finishing stroke to those who were only wounded. [10]
- I made my way across the glistening deck to the saloon where, my newspapers and periodicals neglected, I sat all the morning beside a window gazing out at the limited, vignetted zone of waters around the ship. [9]
- As Nahoum's boat was rowed away, Hylda came on deck again, and the Duchess hastened to her. [11]
- Ned, all alone, was pacing his deck in the starlight. [5]
- I knew it was not a rat this time, and I thought it might be a centipede, because the Captain had killed one on deck in the afternoon. [5]
- Once when he was captain of the 'Crescent City,' I was bringing the boat into port at New Orleans, and momently expecting orders from the hurricane deck, but received none. [5]
- Once more there was a full audience on deck to listen to the sailors' chorus as they got the anchor up, and to wave an adieu to the land as we sped away from Naples. [5]
- All night I walked the deck thinking of you. [11]
- Sometimes, in low voices, we talked of our future; but often, when the wind blew and the deck rocked and the sun flashed upon the waters, a silence would fall between us that needed no word to interpret. [9]
- A very large vessel with a particularly high cabin on the after deck and having the head of a she-wolf on the lofty and boldly-carved prow excited the utmost attention. [10]
- At fifty, your vessel is stanch, and you are on deck with the rest, in all weathers. [6]
- The water was very cold; he clung to a cotton bale--mainly with his teeth--and floated until nearly exhausted, when he was rescued by some deck hands who were on a piece of the wreck. [5]
- Some were below us, some on our level; they were all in well-defined, distinct masses, molten silver on deck, below trailing rain, and attended on earth by gigantic shadows that moved with them. [4]
- The spray feathered up to her sails, the sun caught her on deck and beam; she was running dead for the needle of rock. [11]
- The colonel lined up his regiment on the deck and said "it is our duty to die, that they may be saved. [5]
- I left the two together, and moved about the deck, trying to think closely about Roscoe's case, and to drive Clovelly's invasion from my mind. [11]
- Stepping ashore, he turned to where the Duchess stood on the deck, gazing out into the night. [11]
- Smith and I took the deck, and I led off. [5]
- My own duties took me to the dark lower deck, a vile place indeed, and reeking with the smell of tar and stale victuals. [9]
- Presently I ascended to the hurricane deck and cast a longing glance toward the pilot-house. [5]
- That warn't enough to take us fourteen hundred mile, deck passage nor no other way. [5]
- It was enough to sit on deck forward of the wheel-house, and absorb, by all the senses, the delicious day. [4]
- I introduced him to Mrs. Falchion last night, but he did not stay long on deck, because he felt ill. [11]
- He was about to make haste on deck again, where his own nest was, when, glancing through the window, he saw Mahommed Ibrahim stealing down the bank to the boat's side. [11]
- Dion now desired to join him, and was soon standing on the deck at his side. [10]
- When I came to her on the deck, Justine was saying to her: "Madame, you should not have come. [11]
- I advised her to come often on deck, and mingle with the passengers; and told her that, when she pleased, I should be glad to do any service that lay in my power. [11]
- They had not time to explain, for came streaming upon deck a crowd of mutineers. [11]
- The noise of this vocal performance awakened the other man, who, staggering upon deck and shaking his late opponent by the hand, swore that singing was his pride and joy and chief delight, and that he desired no better entertainment. [12]
- Ay, a grand thing I thought it would be, too, to go riding round the world on a well-washed deck, with plenty of food and grog, and maybe, by-and-by, to be first mate, and lord it from fo'castle bunk to stern-rail. [11]
- Looking out from the windows of Mont Orgueil Castle, or from the deck of the Imperturbable, he could see--and he could scarce choose but see--the lonely Ecrehos. [11]
- Everybody sat on the upper deck, on benches, under an awning; everybody talked, laughed, and exclaimed at the wonder scenery; in truth, a trip on that lake is almost the perfection of pleasuring. [5]
- At half-past eight the steamer rounded into view of the hotels and cottages at Alexandria Bay, and the enchanting scene drew all the passengers to the deck. [4]
- All belonged to the royal war fleet, and the deck of every one was crowded with armed soldiers. [10]
- Farther away from the road flowers of even greater beauty blow, seen by no mortal eye; they deck themselves in beauty for no one but for their Creator, and because they rejoice in themselves. [10]
- I went down the pilot-house guy, head first--not feet first but head first--slid down--before I struck the deck, the captain said we must leave there. [5]
- At that hour the merchantmen had all scuttled to safety behind the head, and from the deck a great yellow King's frigate could be plainly seen standing south to meet us, followed by her smaller consort. [9]
- Postponing report of the matter, I went on deck again among the passengers. [11]
- And forward, under the low deck beams beyond the skylight, I beheld the crouching figure of my client. [9]
- They sat by the hour in the shade of the pilot house on the hurricane deck and looked out over the curving expanses of the river sparkling in the sunlight. [5]
- The Admiral and the General stood together on the deck, their hands clasped. [9]
- Standing rapt upon the forward deck of the ferry, she saw herself, not an atom, but one whose going and coming was a thing of consequence. [9]
- It was doubtless the former, since he had said his parents were wealthy, and he only traveled deck passage because it was cooler. [5]
- From it came the figure of Nahoum Pasha, who stepped briskly on deck, in his handsome face a light which flashed an instant meaning to her. [11]
- She picked up the field-glass from the window-sill behind her, and swept the deck of the steamer. [11]
- Brigond crouched upon the deck, looking at him with fearful eyes. [11]
- Bartja stood on the deck, and waved a last loving farewell to his betrothed; while Sappho prayed in silence to Aphrodite Euploia, the protectress of those who go down to the sea in ships. [10]
- The General paced the deck in thought. [9]
- I flew down the companion-way, looked about for him, could not find him, then returned to the deck just in time to catch a glimpse of him as he re-entered that confounded nest of rascality. [5]
- We camped on the boiler deck, and bought some cheap literature to kill time with. [5]
- The soil of the boiler deck was thin and rocky, but good enough for grazing purposes. [5]
- Don't you know that you could go out and gather together a thousand clerks and mechanics and put them on that deck and ask them to die for duty's sake, and not two dozen of them would stay in the ranks to the end? [5]
- The maudlin scene that met my eyes on deck defies description; some were fighting, others grinning with a hideous laughter, and still others shouting tavern jokes unspeakable. [9]
- It was then that Captain Vance's hairy head appeared above the deck. [9]
- The heat was terrific after England and the sea-voyage, and we slept on the deck. [9]
- An hour after supper the moon came up, and Clay and Washington ascended to the hurricane deck to revel again in their new realm of enchantment. [5]
- To fight and struggle man to man and breast to breast on the deck of the enemy's ship! [10]
- An awning was stretched over the deck, and at a walnut table covered with papers sat Monsieur Vigo, smoking his morning pipe. [9]
- Nick and I stood for a long time on the deck, and the windows of the little village gleamed like stars among the trees. [9]
- Bartja and Sappho stood at the helm and gazed towards Naukratis, until the shores of the Nile vanished and the green waves of the Hellenic sea splashed their foam over the deck of the trireme. [10]
- Sometimes a magnificent state galley appeared, on whose deck was Antony, who inspected the hastily equipped fleet to make the newly recruited sailors one of those kindling speeches in which he was a master hard to surpass. [10]
- The captain could stand upon the hurricane deck, in the pomp of a very brief authority, and give him five or six orders while the vessel backed into the stream, and then that skipper's reign was over. [5]
- Rather would she spend her whole life on a ship's deck, tossed to and fro by the surges, than share this man's fate. [10]
- He had no sooner reached the deck of the Swordfish than he asked for the young person who had just been put on board. [6]
- By and by somebody discovered that the odor came from a pile of cheese on the forward deck, covered with a canvas; it seemed that the Rhinelanders are so fond of it that they take it with them when they travel. [4]
- As I did so I chanced to glance up at the passengers, who were looking at this painful scene from the upper deck. [11]
- This prevalence of snowy costumes gave the promenade deck an invitingly cool, and cheerful and picnicky aspect. [5]
- She was so small (though she was larger than the majority of the inter-island coasters) that when I stood on her deck I felt but little smaller than the Colossus of Rhodes must have felt when he had a man-of-war under him. [5]
- I heard her singing, I saw her walking the deck on some of the fair days when sea-sickness was forgotten. [6]
- With this he shoves wooden disks the size of a saucer--he gives the disk a vigorous shove and sends it fifteen or twenty feet along the deck and lands it in one of the squares if he can. [5]
- And Honora, as she stood on the deck of the ferry-boat, approaching New York for the second time in her life, could not overcome a sense of oppression. [9]
- In like fashion she replied that her maid had some unpacking to do, she had some things to superintend, and, when this was done, she intended to spend a time on deck. [11]
- An hour after she again appeared on deck, called Myrtilus and Bias and, showing them her eyes, reddened by tears, told them, as if in apology for her weakness, that she had not been permitted to bid her father farewell. [10]
- Her broad deck seemed crowded with people. [5]
- People shouted and screamed, everybody rushed on deck and looked into the river. [10]
- The abbess and Rufinus tried to speak comfort to them; but in the afternoon the superior herself was overpowered by the heat, and the air in the little cabin, to which she retired, was even less tolerable stuffy than on deck. [10]
- The young men read, strolled the ample deck, rested and drowsed in the shade of the canvas, took their meals with the captain; and when the day was done they played dummy whist with him till bed-time. [5]
- When the sun reached the water's edge that day, the captain of that ship was sitting on deck reading his prayer-book. [5]
- Her boat had reached Pelusium just as the flames were breaking out in the palace; the broad flare of light and the cries from the various vessels in the harbor brought her on deck. [10]
- The deck was quickly dismantled, the lights went out, and all the dancers disappeared. [11]
- In about a quarter, or from that to three-quarters of a minute, he would be propping up the smoke-stack on the upper deck and cursing. [5]
- Mrs. Colfax was put into a cabin; and Virginia, in a glow, climbed with Captain Lige to the hurricane deck. [9]
- Mark how he proudly treads the whitened deck! [11]
- I was feeling pretty fine, I tell you; but just then I noticed the officer of the deck come to the side and hoist his glass in my direction. [5]
- Her captain, a picturesque Canadian by the name of Xavier Paret, was presented to us; we bade our friends farewell, and stepped across the plank to the deck. [9]
- The Second Class Passenger came over as usual at "lights out" (11) and we lounged along the spacious vague solitudes of the deck and smoked the peaceful pipe and talked. [5]
- Who are these pale specters in plug-hats and silken flounces that file up the companionway in melancholy procession and step upon the deck? [5]
- She was leaning over, with part of her upper deck above water, and you could see every little chimbly-guy clean and clear, and a chair by the big bell, with an old slouch hat hanging on the back of it, when the flashes come. [5]
- I followed him out of the hole in which I had lain on to a deck, which, in the half light, I saw covered with slush and filth. [9]
- The king got out an old ratty deck of cards after breakfast, and him and the duke played seven-up a while, five cents a game. [5]
- And presently the Oracle stepped out with his eternal spy-glass and squared himself on the deck like another Colossus of Rhodes. [5]
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