Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

Walking was the remedy, they decided, but a deck full of chicken coops and pigpens was hardly suitable.

Running across the deck, which was empty now that the livestock had been killed and eaten, they sniffed the spice-laden breezes that came from the shore, each pointing out new and exciting wonders to the other.

The spraying operation was conducted from the rear deck of a small Naval vessel, cruising two miles off-shore and vertical to an on-sure breeze.

Musmanno was on deck.

If one of Mr. Rodgers' melodies seemed to deserve a better fate than interment in Boston or the obscurity of a Broadway failure, Mr. Hart was likely to deck it out with new lyrics to give it a second chance in another show.

He was interrupted by a crash from the deck and sprang toward the ladder, with Gansevoort and Heiser behind him.

When the mast was raised, Alexander gave the order for Small and Cromwell to be placed under arrest, and now three figures in irons sprawled upon the open deck and terror stalked the Somers.

* SV — Save: number of games where the pitcher enters a game led by the pitcher's team, finishes the game without surrendering the lead, is not the winning pitcher, and either ( a ) the lead was three runs or fewer when the pitcher entered the game ; ( b ) the potential tying run was on base, at bat, or on deck ; or ( c ) the pitcher pitched three or more innings

According to Sub-Lieutenant Gordon Steele: " Wegener ran to a cabin on the upper deck -- I later found out it was Manning's bathroom.

Should a card accidentally become exposed, ( visible to all ), any player can demand a redeal ( all the cards are gathered up, and the shuffle, cut, and deal are repeated ) or that the card be replaced randomly into the deck (" burning " it ) and a replacement dealt from the top to the player who was to receive the revealed card.

As there were no users waiting at an interactive terminal, this was no problem: users handed in a deck of punched cards to an operator, and came back a few hours later for printed results.

While Kidd's gunner, William Moore, was on deck sharpening a chisel, a Dutch ship appeared in sight.

The clipper bow on carriers was an American peculiarity, Japanese ships did not feature it and British ships had the similar but differently-shaped " hurricane bow ," whose purpose was, like the clipper bow, to improve hydrodynamic efficiency and, unlike the clipper bow, protect the hangar deck from spray.

The second development was the replacement of the torpedo boat-style turtleback foredeck by a raised forecastle for the new River class destroyers built in 1903, which provided better sea-keeping as well as more space below deck.

However, the deck was stacked against this symbol of the old regime, and the National Assembly ordered it to make changes to conform to the new constitution.

At dawn, Key was able to see an American flag still waving and reported this to the prisoners below deck.

Frigates did not carry any guns ( or have any gunports ) on their lower decks ; confusingly, the lower deck was often referred to as the " gun deck " in the Royal Navy ( in the US Navy, it was usually called the " berth deck "), even for frigates, where it did not carry any guns or have gunports.

Most of these games however typically use a specially made deck of cards designed specifically for the game ( or variations of it ).

The mass and deck space required to carry a large number of cannon made oar-based propulsion impossible and ships came to rely primarily on sails.

This particular complete pack was not made before 1400, but the complete deck was matched to a privately owned fragment dated to the 12th or 13th century.

For example, in a 10 card deck, if a 7 card cut and a 4 card cut are made, that is, 7 cards are moved from the top of the deck to the bottom and then the resulting top 4 cards are also moved to the bottom, then those two consecutive cuts are equivalent to a cut the size of ( 7 + 4

A sheepshead deck is made by removing all of the jokers, sixes, fives, fours, threes, and twos from a standard deck.

Typically made of leather and featuring a soft white sole to avoid marring or scratching a boat deck.

These were the oldest form of tarot deck to be made, being first devised in the 15th century in northern Italy.

Both these claims are however often rigorously disputed because the first Sony Portapak, the Videorover did not become commercially available until 1967, first in the US ( Fred Forest does not contradict this, saying it was provided to him by the manufacturers ) and that Andy Warhol is credited with showing underground video art mere weeks before Paik's papal procession screening, but here probably made on a pre-portable mains deck.

When a captain determined that his new ship was ready to take to sea, he mustered the crew on deck, read his orders, broke the national ensign and distinctive commissioning pennant, and caused the watch to be set and the first entry to be made in the log.

The bridge has two river piers and is made of three main sections of, and ( North to South ) with a total structure length of ; the aluminium deck is wide.

The deck is made from oak planks.

The deck is made from oak planks.

The deck is made from oak planks.

The deck is made from oak planks.

The deck is made from oak planks.

The deck is made from oak planks.

The deck is made from oak planks.

The deck is made from oak planks.

The deck is made from oak planks.

The deck is made from oak planks.

The deck is made from oak planks.

The deck is made from oak planks.

Beaten with fear and sound and wet and chill, they crawled to the hurricane deck and looked out haggardly at a world of water that reached clear to the surrounding hills.

But I have been blest with excellent spirits, and to-day have been running about the deck, and dancing in our room for exercise, as well as ever ''.

He doesn't think that potting them from a deck chair on the south side of the house with a quart glass of beer for sustenance is entirely sporting.

And after a while, he dried his tears and walked the deck as a captain should with assurance and dignity.

The Russian abacus, the schoty ( счёты ), usually has a single slanted deck, with ten beads on each wire ( except one wire which has four beads, for quarter-ruble fractions.

* SVO — Save opportunity: When a pitcher 1 ) enters the game with a lead of three or fewer runs and pitches at least one inning, 2 ) enters the game with the potential tying run on base, at bat, or on deck, or 3 ) pitches three or more innings with a lead and is credited with a save by the official scorer

The game is played with the Spanish baraja deck, which lacks eights, nines and tens.

The Germans allowed the freighter's crew and passengers to board lifeboats, and prepared to sink the freighter with the U-boat's deck gun.

At the end of September, Navy reconnaissance aircraft photographed the Soviet ship Kasimov with large crates on its deck the size and shape of Il-28 light bombers.

A US Navy P-2 Neptune | P-2H Neptune of VP-18 flying over a Soviet cargo ship with crated Ilyushin Il-28 | Il-28s on deck during the Cuban Crisis.

Moore fell to the deck with a fractured skull and died the following day.

Stressed ribbon bridge s, like this one in Maldonado, Uruguay, also follow a catenary curve, with cables embedded in a rigid deck.

Dominoes ( or dominos ) generally refers to the collective gaming pieces making up a domino set ( sometimes called a deck or pack ) or to the subcategory of tile games played with domino pieces.

* Discordian Tarot with ' Reading ' – the free deck consists of 73 cards, incl.

" As with the Tarot deck there is symbolic art and each card has two complementary meanings when upright or reversed ( while face up ).

In games with a full card deck and four or more players, two pairs can often be the winning hand.

Alice now discards three of her own cards, and replaces them with three from the top of the deck ( Note: in a player-dealt casino game there is often a rule that the dealer must discard before picking up the deck, but this is a home game so we won't worry about such details ).

Five-card draw is sometimes played with a stripped deck.