Which preposition to use with decked

of Occurrences 476%

" For two hours after the departure of the captain and Trendon there were dull times on the quarter-deck of the Wolverine.

with Occurrences 298%

"Mr. Carter, have the chief quartermaster report on deck with the signal flags.

in Occurrences 159%

Matocton was decked in its spring fripperies of burgeoning, and the sky was a great, pale turquoise, and the buttercups left a golden dust high up on one's trousers.

for Occurrences 61%

" Colonel George Warren and Morris Burnet, the Boy, had the best outfits; but this fact was held to be more than counter-balanced by the value of the schoolmaster's experience at Caribou, and by the extraordinary handiness of Potts, the Denver clerk, who had helped to build the shelter on deck for the disabled sick on the voyage up.

at Occurrences 43%

The dredge "was rapidly hauled on deck at one o'clock in the morning of the 23rd, after an absence of 7-1/4 hours, and a journey of upwards of eight statute miles," with a hundred weight and a half of solid contents.

to Occurrences 35%

" He hastened along the deck to where the high-powered motor boat lay covered with a tarpaulin.

like Occurrences 19%

Ordinarily officers of the U.S. Navy do not scuttle on deck like a crowd of curious schoolgirls, but all hands had been keyed to a high pitch over the elusive light, and the bet with Edwards now served as an excuse for the betrayal of unusual eagerness.

from Occurrences 17%

We scouts claim to be observant, and yet that key was right on the deck from Bridgeboro all the way down to St. George.

on Occurrences 16%

A very common method is to make a box, a foot or less square, open, or with a pane of glass on one side; a stick three or four feet long is run through an auger hole in the top and bottom, and wedged fast, which forms a standard; the other end of the stick is run through a hole on the little deck on the forward part of the boat, and placed in a socket formed for the purpose in the bottom, and is wedged at the deck, so as to make it steady.

by Occurrences 15%

Previous to coming on board the Powhatan, the commissioners visited the sloop-of-war Macedonian, being saluted as they stepped on her deck by seventeen guns from the Mississippi lying near.

without Occurrences 11%

can't you sleep on deck without a pillow? ROBIN HOOD.

beneath Occurrences 10%

Yet I am convinced that if he could have felt the heave and roll of the deck beneath him, he would have faced three times the difficulties he now feared.

above Occurrences 10%

One night, while we were lying outside Lisbon, Woodroffe and Chater, together with Olinto, went ashore, and when they returned in the early hours of the morning they awoke me by crossing the deck above my head.

after Occurrences 9%

When, therefore, we came on deck after the dissipation of the morning mist, we found ourselves in a scene very different from that which we had left.

into Occurrences 7%

Within an hour you have converted the after-deck into fairy-land; you have" Just then, out of the blue darkness that lay between the yacht and Venice, burst the lights of a gondola.

under Occurrences 7%

"Still, I imagine it will not be very long before I feel a deck under my heels again.

as Occurrences 7%

As soon as we came within twenty or thirty yards of us, I gave them the contents of both barrels, raking their decks as before.

before Occurrences 6%

The midshipmen, after breakfast, enjoyed a few minutes on the deck before going below for duty in the engine rooms, the dynamo room, the "stoke hole" and other stations.

behind Occurrences 6%

Sam took the wheel, while I ate supper, sitting with Carr on the deck behind the galley.

over Occurrences 5%

And, odd whiles, there was a soft thudding and rubbing upon the decks over our heads, and once, as I recollect, the Thing made a final try at the teak covers across the windows; but the day came at last, and found me sleeping.

near Occurrences 4%

I remember well one black night in the mid-Atlantic, when we were beating up against a stiff breeze, coming on deck near midnight, just as the ship was put about.

between Occurrences 4%

What farewells there were on those dark and reeking decks between husbands and wives and all other men and women of the same family one can hardly dare think about.

toward Occurrences 3%

I hardly know what wild words I might have spoken had the opportunity been mine; but at that instant the figure of a man crossed the deck toward us, emerging from the open cabin door.

during Occurrences 3%

Many of the days were pleasant, with quiet sea and bright sunshine, and the younger woman must have passed hours on deck during so long and tedious a voyage.

until Occurrences 3%

" "Guard this after deck until Watkins and I come back.

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