He looks down the orlop-deck aisle running forward between the piled casks and crates. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2007)
Through the roar of battle, sobs of dear love sounded along the blood-stained deck, as Dan and another seaman took the pride of our nation tenderly, and carried him down to the orlop-deck. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Not to tell over again his furlongs from spiracle to tail, and the yards he measured about the waist; only think of the gigantic involutions of his intestines, where they lie in him like great cables and hawsers coiled away in the subterranean orlop-deck of a line-of-battle-ship. ❋ Unknown (2002)
The sight of the rows of guns and ammunition, however, so terrified him that he beat a hasty retreat to his canoe, though he had already got as far as the orlop-deck. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)
Thus a man-of-war is a floating house with six stories -- the poop being the garret, and the orlop-deck the cellars. ❋ R. [Illustrator] Richardson (1859)
Not to tell over again his furlongs from spiracle to tail, and the yards he measures about the waist; only think of the gigantic involutions of his intestines, where they lie in him like great cables and hawsers coiled away in the subterranean orlop-deck of a line-of-battle-ship. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)
Not to tell over again his furlongs from spiracle to tail, and the yards he measures about the waist; only think of the gigantic involutions of his intestines, where they lie in him like great cables and hausers coiled away in the subterranean orlop-deck of a line-of - battle-ship. ❋ Unknown (1851)
This appeal had the desired effect, and, the kind surgeon leading the way, Paul was lifted up and carried below to a side cabin on the orlop-deck. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
The riven decks could ill keep out the water which washed aboard her, while many of the beams gave way, and those of the orlop-deck bent and cracked till several of them fell into the hold. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
Every now and then the splinters, and occasionally also a shot, which fell through the hatchways, showed him that death was being dealt rapidly around just above him; and he dared not therefore move, as he wished to do, to the orlop-deck, into which the shot of an enemy does not often find its way. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
The pumps continued to be worked as energetically as at first, but still the water gained on them, till it reached the orlop-deck. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
The Turks fired granite shot, one of which, weighing 800 pounds and measuring 6 feet in circumference, passed through the side of the _Active_, two feet above the water, and lodged on the orlop-deck, close to the magazine-scuttle, without injuring a man. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
Below this again is one still lower-deck called the orlop-deck. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
To remedy this evil, no time was lost in lighting a fire in the warming-stove upon the orlop-deck, everything being previously moved from its neighbourhood that was likely to create danger. ❋ William Edward Parry (1822)
The water had now reached above the orlop-deck, and all further attempts were unavailing. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)
The captain descended to the orlop-deck, where he found the major part of the crew and passengers assembled. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)
a determined manner came up to the main watch to look down into the orlop-deck to find out how many men were disabled, whilst a malignant joy lit up their diabolical features. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)
