Example Sentences

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The sticks were jerked out of her, deckhouses splintered to match-wood, rails ripped off, and, after the worst had passed, the covering boards began to go. 

From The Red One by London, Jack

Out in the stream, a small steamer with a black funnel and a row of white deckhouses moved seawards with the tide.

From Wyndham's Pal by Bindloss, Harold

Between two of the deckhouses on the lower deck of this steamer is a narrow passage.

From A Padre in France by Birmingham, George A.

These, as well as the end of the ship's navigating bridge and the gangway, were illuminated by, he imagined, a lamp on the side of one of the deckhouses.

From The Pit Prop Syndicate by Crofts, Freeman Wills

Her great bow seemed to be rising out of the water like a headland, over which Frank could just see the tiers of white deckhouses, one mast, and the tall smokestack.

From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Bindloss, Harold