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The midshipmen's berth was somewhat confined, as, indeed, were those of the other officers, as a large portion of the space below was given up for the use of the troops. The poop cabins were devoted to the accommodation of the military officers and their families.
"It will be my exceeding honour to pilot my lord's galley into the berth appointed in harbour." The boat shot ahead, and our galley-slaves swung into stroke again. Tob watched me with a dry smile as he stood directing the men at the helms. "Well," I said, humouring his whim, "what is it?"
The steerage of a frigate, even when a sunbeam penetrates through a scuttle, is not over and above brilliantly lighted; and on the present occasion a purser's dip here and there just enabled us to grope our way about the deck. Now it happened that the carpenter at that moment was coming out of his berth, which was nearly opposite the boatswain's.
Being thus foiled in the only matters which occurred to him at the moment, he left the state- room, closing the door after him as silently and reverently as if the captain's dead body had been lying there, and reluctantly returned to his own berth.
Slug has remarked, as an additional instance of the extreme ingenuity of the steam-engine as applied to purposes of navigation, that in whatever part of the vessel a passenger’s berth may be situated, the machinery always appears to be exactly under his pillow. He intends stating this very beautiful, though simple discovery, to the association.’ ‘Half-past ten.
When her engines were stopped in mid-stream a number of fussy little tugs began nosing her round to starboard. It seemed a matter of sheer impossibility that these puny creatures should move such a monster; but faith can move mountains, and in half an hour, or less, the tugs had moved the Lusitania to her allotted berth.
Won't He must have lots of money, but he would like to get hold of a soft berth and the sixth part of my profits for nothing if he only could." And during these years Massy's dislike grew under the restraint of something resembling fear. The simplicity of that man appeared dangerous.
I don't sympathize with them, for I like roast pork when it is well brought up and kept clean. "Monkeys are as tame as they are mischievous; and doubtless they are tame because they are held to be sacred, and have a better time than they do in Africa and elsewhere. I advise you all to give them a wide berth; for their bite is worse than their bark, like that of some men we know of.
Wilmot Allen's strong arm about him, his mouth vaguely smiling, he fell heavily forward as if under the weight of a new and overpowering wonder and knowledge. Nothing so makes for insomnia as a man's knowledge that he has made a fool of himself. Between Chicago and New York Wilmot Allen did not even have his berth made up.
You are welcome to the lower berth." "Shall we turn in and try them?" "No; I am going to wait until we get to our destination. I want to see that the car is properly placed, in view of the fact that this is our first night in charge. I want to know how everything is handled by the railroad. You may go to bed if you wish." "No; I guess I will sit up. I have a book to read.
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