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  • The great difference in appearance between these packets and ours, is, that there is so much of them out of the water: the main-deck being enclosed on all sides, and filled with casks and goods, like any second or third floor in a stack of warehouses; and the promenade or hurricane-deck being a-top of that again.

    American Notes for General Circulation 2007

  • When I have made my toilet, I go upon the hurricane-deck, and set in for two hours of hard walking up and down.

    American Notes for General Circulation 2007

  • The saloon, or deck-house, came to within fifteen feet of the bow, and on the hurricane-deck above there was a tower containing a double wheel, with which the ship is steered by chains one hundred feet long.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • He was boat and captain and engine-bells combined, so he had to imagine himself standing on his own hurricane-deck giving the orders and executing them:

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2003

  • Clemens, standing alone on the hurricane-deck, heard the big bell forward boom out the call for leads.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • As the Wanita ploughed up the lake that day on her return trip, a man came down from the hurricane-deck into the cabin, sat by the table and took up a magazine lying there and turned it over.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

  • Up to the hurricane-deck, in silence, without lamentation.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various

  • I know that the hurricane-deck, down all its length,

    Night on the Convoy 1920

  • With his cap clapped down on one side and his youthful cigarette-holder cocked up on the other, and in his buttonhole a carnation jaunty as a red pompon, with the breeze puffing out the light silver hair about his temples and his pink cheeks glowing in the westering sun, he promenaded round and round the hurricane-deck and stopped to pat a whimpering child.

    The Innocents A Story for Lovers Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Rush for the hurricane-deck and to the life - boat, and obey the mate's orders.

    The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 1916

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