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Examples
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Williams and I were the only ones about the maindeck.
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Second Mate was down on the maindeck with the men, seeing about some job he wanted done; so that I was on the poop alone.
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When I got down on to the maindeck, I went up to the Second, and gave it to him.
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“Nothing, Sir,” said Tammy, and went down on to the maindeck.
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Every time I remembered them, I felt thankful for the lanterns round the maindeck, and I wondered why none had been put in the mizzen rigging.
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If he had known of that other thing, I had seen down on the maindeck, what then?
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Three times already he had been down on to the maindeck, prowling about.
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I shirked being questioned about my sudden appearance at the foot of the poop ladder; and so I lit my pipe and wandered about the maindeck.
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And then, funnily enough, in spite of all my reasoning, I was still afraid of going aft to discover who that was, standing on the lee side of the maindeck.
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From the maindeck there came the sound of running feet, and the voices of the watch, shouting.
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