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Example sentences for "upon deck"

  • Confined below, we knew little of what was going on upon deck; some of us, however, were more or less there every day.

  • Some of our brave fellows have been brought upon deck, every punishing day, and undergone this horrid punishment, three or four times over, until the crews of the men of war were disposed to cry out shame, upon their own officers!

  • This he was determined to bear no longer; and he therefore drove them all below, allowing only the cooks to remain in the galley, and the caterers to go upon deck, to get water from the tanks.

  • Upon deck, every thing that was moveable was out of sight, having either been stowed below, previous to the gale, or been washed overboard.

  • I entreated for permission to go upon deck; and soon after the boatswain and carpenter had seen me in my berth, as they were going up the fore-hatchway, I followed them, as is stated in their evidence.

  • The moment the ship struck, Lieutenant Topping, her commander, sprung from his berth and rushed upon deck, without giving himself time to put on his clothes.

  • In about five minutes the captain went upon deck, where he remained for a short time, and again returned to his cabin, but had scarcely closed the door, before he was summoned upon deck by the officer of the watch.

  • Then the Glass was out, it being half after eight, and the two men that were upon Deck went to pump out the Water.

  • In a little time after they had been upon Deck, they separated from each other, viz.

  • I now saw my suffering fellow-passengers come from below, pale and trembling like ghosts from the grave, and it was very evident that they had not fared better in the cabin than I upon deck.

  • I crept ill as I was, upon deck, to see the terribly grand spectacle.

  • This enabled me to go upon deck, where in the open air I hoped to be somewhat enabled to resist sea-sickness.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bitter disappointment; burning coal; caper sauce; common term; eleventh century; indeed they; not always; retrospective view; secret diplomacy; slowed down; upon another; upon being; upon conviction; upon every; upon him; upon himself; upon his; upon landing; upon occasion; upon the; upon their; upon them; upon this; upon what; upon which; upon whose