They are certainly particular about showing light after dark; by 6 p.m. all port-holes are closed, and every cabin has its iron deadlight down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference

Denman sprang to a starboard deadlight and looked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility] Reference

However, Denman could still look out through a deadlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility] Reference

"No -- guess not," came the answer, through the small deadlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility] Reference

"Fully committed," muttered Denman, as he drew back from the deadlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility] Reference

Sort of a pretty look-off through that deadlight, ain't there, Cap'n Sears?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Harbor] Reference

Then Ross casually glanced at the deadlight, and violently forced the girl to her seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility] Reference

Foster remained, moodily staring through the deadlight, while the other two went forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility] Reference

As the cube settled slowly to the ground, the adventurers left the deadlight to use the windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life] Reference

He drew back to avoid a brick that threatened to enter the deadlight, and the conversation ended.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grain Ship] Reference

It was hot in the room, and rather dark, as the deadlight to the poop-deck was fogged by sea water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isle o' Dreams] Reference

"What do you mean by the awash trim, lieutenant?" asked Foster, who was now looking out through the deadlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility] Reference

Then he entered an opposite room -- all were unlocked now -- from which, slantingly through the deadlight, he saw lights.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility] Reference

Tossing his cigar through the opened deadlight, Denman arose and unlocked his door, passing into the small and empty wardroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility] Reference

All four gathered around the deadlight, and soon agreed that the peculiarly elusive skin of the planet was actually within sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life] Reference

The sudden stopping of the turbines woke him in the morning, and the sun shining into his deadlight apprised him that he had slept late.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility] Reference

He heard Sampson's footsteps going forward, and called to her softly; but she, too, had moved forward, and he went back to his deadlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility] Reference

For, looking in through the deadlight, was the white face of Foster, washed clean of blood, but filled with the terror and agony of the dying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility] Reference

Oaths and loud laughter, shouts, whoops, and grumblings, mingled with Forsythe's angry voice of command, came down to him through the open deadlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility] Reference

The four changed from the window to the deadlight, and watched the approaching disk with every bit of the excitement and interest they had felt when nearing Mercury.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life] Reference

When all hands were called, I rubbed my eyes in astonishment, for as I glanced out of the deadlight near which my hammock swung, I saw that we were under way and well out to sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee"] Reference

But before this each man of the twenty-four had passed before the open deadlight, derided and jeered the unlucky prisoners, called them unprintable names, and slid down the side on a rope to dry land.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grain Ship] Reference

The other three kept their eyes glued to the deadlight; and their mystification was only equaled by their uneasiness as that motionless, bleary glaze failed absolutely to show anything they had not seen a thousand miles higher.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

Murphy, looking out through the deadlight, could see nothing of the water between the ship and the beach; but far down to the south he discerned a team of horses dragging a wagon holding a boat, and this he explained to the skipper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grain Ship] Reference

As there was no helping him until I could see what was the matter with him, I hurried first into the machine-shop for a wrench, and then went forward into that dark place cautiously -- until by a glint of light on the ship's side I made out where a port was, and so got loose the deadlight and could look around.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Sargasso Sea A Novel] Reference