delights

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“That’s what I minded most, about the storm,” she added, “four days shut away down there with the deadlights up.”

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

The screws fastening the bolts by which the external plates of the deadlights were solidly pinned, readily yielded to the pressure of a powerful wrench.

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward

They wakened, one by one, in the afternoon, to find the electric bulbs glowing, and the boat rolling heavily, while splashes of rain came in through the weather deadlights.

From The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Robertson, Morgan

The apartment, long and triangular in shape, was dimly lighted by four deadlights, two each side, and for a moment Sampson could not distinguish one from another.

From The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Robertson, Morgan

Well, soon as we'd overhauled her, our 'Jolly Roger' we flew, We opened our dummy deadlights, and the guns gleamed grinning through.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 13, 1892 by Various