I leaped, fell over the rail of the boat in a tangle of arms and legs, smacked the polished deck with my shoulder, and watched the pretty stars for a moment.

Ziller followed the machine, seeming to flow along the polished deck, lithely graceful on his single broad midlimb and two strong rear legs.

He liked to imagine her lying out on the polished deck, wearing some excuse for a bikini.

Blood tears dripped from her cheeks and spattered on the polished deck under her.

There were rich carpets over the polished deck, and heavy furniture that was well anchored against the sway of the ship.

Then she saw the bodies lying sprawled like piles of old clothes being sorted for the wash . . . except for the blood, bright as Pedar's blood, on the polished deck.

The two Bajoran runabout pilots Kira had rounded up were not so silent; one slipped, her shoes making a squeak on the polished deck.

You could set out tons of food toward dusk and wake up the next morning with a polished deck and garbage all over the driveway.

I "opened" it, held it before me, the sun shining down upon the warship's polished deck, the weapons "familiar" in their way.

The erstwhile challenger of the galaxy, naked to the waist and barefoot, dripping water onto the polished deck, confronted the five.