"Let the sea make a noise, and the fulness thereof; let the floods clap their hands" for joy, that the Cooks and the Falconers, the Ansons and the Byrons, of olden time, are at length banished from the department of nautical literature, and no oceanic description will be listened to unless said or sung by a ci-devant midshipman or a half-boy, half-woman poet, who lies in his berth, and sees, through the four-inch-plank deadlight of a packet, the full moon rising in the west.
"An Old Sailor's Yarns"
Nathaniel Ames
The brick wall of the Customs House, held from collapsing by a row of rusty iron stars, seemed to bulge more than its wont for the moment-its upper window, a ship's deadlight, round and expressionless as the eye of a codfish.
"The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story"
Various
I heard the cook close the door behind me and bolt it and cover the deadlight with a tin pan.
"The Mutineers"
Charles Boardman Hawes