between-decks

Immured in a tiny between-decks cubby which was filled mostly with boxes and bales, tied as well by the rope around his neck, he waited from moment to moment for the door to open and admit, realised in the flesh, the resplendent vision of Steward which blazed through the totality of his consciousness.

CHAPTER XXII 2010

I was on the Emanuela that day in Mozambique Channel when the Brisk caught us with nine hundred slaves between-decks.

CHAPTER II 2010

Ayrton stole carefully along the between-decks, strewn with numerous sleepers, overcome more by drunkenness than sleep.

The Mysterious Island 2005

Ayrton stole carefully along the between-decks, strewn with numerous sleepers, overcome more by drunkenness than sleep.

The Mysterious Island 2005

To those who had not, the articles were ready at hand; for speculators had mingled in the crowd, one of whom affixed his "shingle" to a post between-decks, setting forth, -- "Fishing-Lines and Hooks, with Sinkers and Bait," -- the latter consisting of clams in the shell, contained in

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

Cotillons are a leading pastime among the people; and as the water was pretty smooth down the bay, and a splendid breeze rushed aft between-decks, many laughing girls and well-dressed matronly women now made their appearance on the floor.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

On the other hand, at that time, the Richard probably had not a man left between-decks, unless some whom they were trying to keep at her pumps.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

The musicians had laid away their cornopeans and other cunningly twisted horns upon the broad disk of the big drum, in a dark alcove between-decks, and were fishing savagely in

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

The water rapidly increased in the hold till it reached the "between-decks," where the eight hundred and fifty coolies were confined.

Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott

The men were arranged in bunks "between-decks," one set along the sides of the ship, and another, double tier, amidships.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger