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The "shakedown" proved to be in reality two fair- sized beds, which would have been very comfortable had they been much cleaner than they were, and our two friends enjoyed a very fair night's rest. Bob duly signed articles on the following morning, and then, in company with his shipmates, proceeded on board the Betsy Jane.
He was still standing close to her, so close that she felt the warmth of his body, heard the sharp indrawing of his breath. For one sick second she thought he would snatch her to him; but the second passed and he had not moved. "Shall we go?" he said again. "And I say, can you put me up? I don't care where I sleep. Any sort of shakedown will do.
The lady took her reference, and said she would write her. "I do hope you will give me a trial, mum," pleaded the girl, as she rose to go; "I would try so hard to give you satisfaction." The next applicant offered to come for three pounds thought six pounds too much. She also expressed her willingness to sleep in the back kitchen: a shakedown under the sink was all she wanted.
This is my wife, and we are on our way to spend Christmas with my brother's family at Lindsay. Can you take us in for the night, Mr. Joseph?" "Certainly, and welcome!" exclaimed Mr. Joseph heartily, "if you don't mind a shakedown by the kitchen fire for the night. My, Mrs. Ralston," as his wife helped her off with her things, "but you are snowed up! I'll see to putting your horse away, Mr.
Well, it's a damp night, my friend, and I won't keep you any longer from a decent billet. 'Look here, Durwent, said Selwyn; 'come along to my rooms. You're soaked to the skin, and I could give you a change and a shakedown for the night. 'Thanks very much; but I'm accustomed to this kind of thing. 'You won't be seen, urged Selwyn.
"If I have to go out by that window, I will but I do not like it. If I could bribe someone to put up a ladder! But they are all asleep the lazy fools." He glanced at the shakedown which Mrs. Van Zandt had sent over by Miller, the idea of a rope ladder made of sheets having floated idly through his head.
Wondering why the Almighty made us, you know, and why He made our heads swimmy, and fixed little pains into the small of our backs. Maybe I'll do better tonight." He rose and steadied himself with an effort against the corner of the chair back. "Look here, Vansittart," said I, gravely, stepping up to him, and laying my hand upon his sleeve, "I can give you a shakedown here.
Boast a figurative term, taken from a braggadocio or boaster; it applies to any thing that is hollow or deceitful: for instance, when some potatoes that grow unusually large are cut in two, an empty space is found in the centra, and that potato is termed boast, or empty. He accordingly threw himself on the shakedown, and in a short time, as was evident by his snoring, fell into a profound sleep.
He had found the household disorganized, his father hovering, frantic, round the sick bed, and Sadie distractedly distributing her energies between her mother's room and the kitchen. It was he who had driven over to Stockton and brought back a nurse, insisted on the doctor staying in the house and made him a shakedown in the parlor.
You kin go, too, Susan, ef you want to, seein' ez you air 'titled to a leetle play-spaill arter wuckin' so spry all summah. You kin find a place to sleep with Betsy in Gilcrest's tent, or with Molly an' Ann Trabue. I reckon yer pap an' Henry an' Abner kin git a shakedown in some uv the wagon-beds, or else on the groun'; 'twon't hurt 'em this dry weathah.
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