Which preposition to use with deckers
He was first an actor, and probably only a strolling one; for Decker in his Satyromastix, a play published in 1602, and designed as a reply to Johnson's Poetaster, 'reproaches him with having left the occupation of a mortar trader to turn actor, and with having put up a supplication to be a poor journeyman player, in which he would have continued, but that he could not set a good face upon it, and so was cashiered.
"And you?" asked Decker of his man.
SEE Deckers on the coast.
(In Cosmopolitan magazine, June 1923) © 10May23, B576576. R62240, 17May50, P. G. Wodehouse (A) DECKERS ON THE COAST, by William McFee. (In the Atlantic monthly, July 1923)
There was a long brass cannon in the forecastle, with carronades above and below, for she was a double-decker with a row of guns above and below, and at that time such a formidable craft was able to destroy half of the English navy.
It is true that its inhabitants were accustomed to the water, and to the sight of vessels, from the two-decker to the little shabby-looking craft that brought ashes from town, to meliorate the sandy lands of Suffolk.
With fur cap, official garb, and the excursive eye of a martinet, he inspects every detail of preparationsees each passenger stowed seriatim in his special placethen takes his position in frontgives the word to his jack-booted vice, whose responsive whip cracks assentand away rolls the ponderous machine, with all the rumbling majesty of a three-decker from off the stocks.
I have observed in my parochial experience (haud ignarus mali) that the Devil is prompt to adopt the latest inventions of destructive warfare, and may thus take even such a three-decker as Bishop Butler at an advantage.