How To Use Deadlight In A Sentence
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She lay with him one afternoon, when a scrap of sunlight spearing through a chink in the scuttle's deadlight was scribing an oval shape on the opposite bulkhead, and she mentally added up the number of rooms in her Lincolnshire house.
Sharpe's Trafalgar
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The gooseneck vents were covered and heavy deadlights were swung across the scuttles and clipped down along the entire ship's sides.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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Grace lay beside him, gazing up at the deck, listening to the hiss of rain falling on the deadlight of the cabin's scuttle.
Sharpe's Trafalgar
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When all hands were called, I rubbed my eyes in astonishment, for as I glanced out of the deadlight near which my hammock swung, I saw that we were under way and well out to sea.
A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee"
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The closed deadlights indicate the ship had been secured for heavy weather prior to wrecking.
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As the cube settled slowly to the ground, the adventurers left the deadlight to use the windows.
The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life
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I heard the cook close the door behind me and bolt it and cover the deadlight with a tin pan.
The Mutineers
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They are certainly particular about showing light after dark; by 6 p.m. all port-holes are closed, and every cabin has its iron deadlight down.
The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"
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As we dropped off the tip of the bow to seabed level and swam along the wreck, we could see numerous portholes, all with heavy-duty deadlights securely fixed shut.
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It was hot in the room, and rather dark, as the deadlight to the poop-deck was fogged by sea water.
Isle o' Dreams
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The side facing me had five square windows complete with deadlight covers, all encrusted in coral.
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All the watertight doors, deadlights and scuttles had been securely closed before the torpedo struck the ship.
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Do not allow a man to go on deck, nor to open a deadlight.
On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake
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The brick wall of the Customs House, held from collapsing by a row of rusty iron stars, seemed to bulge more than its wont for the moment -- its upper window, a ship's deadlight, round and expressionless as the eye of a codfish.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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Fresh air was admitted through two large wind sails in the forward hatches, and also through the deadlights upon each side of the ship.
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The four changed from the window to the deadlight, and watched the approaching disk with every bit of the excitement and interest they had felt when nearing Mercury.
The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life
