French marines on the higher decks poured volleys of musket fire onto Bellerophons exposed upper decks.
In the women's doubles final at the end of a productive week in difficult conditions, Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina stood on the highest deck of the podium, smiling in the afternoon sun and draped in gold on behalf of their benighted nation.
With the highest deck on the 72nd floor at 244m, it's got a long way to go before it can compete globally.
On the high metal deck of one of the personnel-carriers, two monkeys no bigger than cats were tied with five-foot pieces of cord to the base of a machine gun.
Terry Murphy, John Lewis's director of national distribution, is standing by the railings on a high deck, staring out at the frenetic action below.
She plummets into the turbulent water from a high deck on the ship and sinks to the bottom of the ocean, where she is invited to become the Undersea Goddess or consort of the Sea Prince (Jae-Yong Ohm).
Aside from the discounts offered by some agencies, prices for a cruise cabin vary depending on a number of factors: the size of the cabin, whether it has a window or a balcony, which deck you are on (higher decks are usually more expensive) and whether you're toward the front or rear of the ship (which cost less than cabins in the middle, generally a more stable area of the ship).
Sit on their sky-high deck overlooking the water and order anything that has codfish cakes and grilled linguiça (a smoky, paprika-packed Portuguese sausage rarely seen where we live, in Brooklyn).
And to stand on a high deck and see all this even before breakfast has been served on the Lido Deck, with a soft land breeze warming your face and a performance of "The Book of Mormon" ahead of you, and dinner after that?
It will have the world's first Armani hotel; the world's highest swimming pool, on the 76th floor; the highest observation deck, on the 124th floor; and the highest mosque, on the 158th floor.
Surrounding her are the cast and production crew of "Bette," who are munching on large muffins, and a large number of network and studio executives perched on high deck chairs placed around the table.
