Five years and two space voyages ago, seen from the afterdeck of this ship or one of her sisters, the woods had been green with new foliage, and the wine-melon fields had been in pink blossom.
"Graveyard of Dreams"
Henry Beam Piper
She won't float more'n a day or two, anyhow, wid th' afterdeck an' cargo burnt free.
"Mr. Trunnell"
T. Jenkins Hains
We were sitting on the afterdeck in the cool of the evening-old Marshall, Denman Sturgis, Mrs. Vanderley, Stella, George, and I-when he came up.
"My Man Jeeves"
P. G. Wodehouse