promenade-deck love

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See deck, 2.

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  • The steerage promenade-deck, iron-sided, black-floored, ending in the iron approaches to the galley at one end and the iron superstructures about a hatch at the other, was like a grim swart oilily clean machine-shop aisle, so inclosed, so over-roofed, that the side toward the sea seemed merely a long factory window.

    Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

  • At no time did the sea break over the deck -- but the water below drove all the people up to the main-deck and to the promenade-deck, and thus we remained for about three hours, when daylight came; but there was a fog so thick that nothing but water could be seen.

    Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

  • They poured down the gangway, trailed arms, ascended the promenade-deck, ordered arms, grounded arms, and broke line.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

  • Down below, the Italians, talking, gesticulating, showing their white teeth in flashing, boyish smiles, were being herded docilely on board, while at intervals one or another of the few promenade-deck passengers appeared.

    The Firefly of France Marion Polk Angellotti 1936

  • What more of his views Monty would have expounded I can't say, for a voice yelled from the promenade-deck above us:

    Tell England A Study in a Generation Ernest Raymond 1931

  • The steerage promenade-deck, iron-sided, black-floored, ending in the iron approaches to the galley at one end and the iron superstructures about a hatch at the other, was like a grim swart oilily clean machine-shop aisle, so inclosed, so over-roofed, that the side toward the sea seemed merely a long factory window.

    Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • The steerage promenade-deck, iron-sided, black-floored, ending in the iron approaches to the galley at one end and the iron superstructures about a hatch at the other, was like a grim swart oilily clean machine-shop aisle, so inclosed, so over-roofed, that the side toward the sea seemed merely a long factory window.

    Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man 1914

  • It was noted, however, that the first-class passenger who had stared down at him from the promenade-deck remained aboard the vessel as she started southward again.

    Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912

  • It must have been the second day out that I observed Leontine and Sydney together on the promenade-deck.

    The Treasure-Train 1908

  • Here he commanded a view of the promenade-deck landing and the main companionway, all in darkness but for a feeble glimmer of reflected starlight through the open deck port on the far side of the vessel.

    The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Louis Joseph Vance 1906

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