turn-in

Updated: May 15, 2025

I want you to take a squint through the glass before I turn-in, sir, and to tell me whether I've been dreaming with my eyes open or no." "Why, what is it, Bowles? Do you think you've seen anything?" "Well, yes, I do, sir," answered the mate, "but it's so very indistinct in this starlight that I don't care to trust to my own eyes alone."

Harry Collingwood - The Pirate Island: A Story of the South Pacific

We felt as though our situation was a call upon our superiors to give us occasional relaxations, and to make our yoke easier. But the contrary policy was pursued. We were kept at work all day when in port; which, together with a watch at night, made us glad to turn-in as soon as we got below.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast

We felt as though our situation was a call upon our superiors to give us occasional relaxations, and to make our yoke easier. But the opposite policy was pursued. We were kept at work all day when in port; which, together with a watch at night, made us glad to turn-in as soon as we got below.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast

"It's bound to go somewhere. We might as well give up the railroad and find a place to turn-in." "It can't be far," encouraged the Tenderfoot; "this valley can't be more than a few miles across." "Gi dap!" remarked the driver. We moved forward down the white wagon trail approaching the mountains. And then we were witnesses of the most marvelous transformation.

Stewart Edward White - The Mountains

Jacquelin, who foresaw his own marriage in that of his mistress, had also heard the click-clack in the rue Saint-Blaise, and had opened wide the gates into the courtyard. The postilion, a friend of his, took pride in making a fine turn-in, and drew up sharply before the portico.

Honoré de Balzac - The Jealousies of a Country Town

The voyage was agreeable. We were good friends in the cabin. The captain, a prudent, temperate man, took his three glasses of grog per diem, and no more; the first at noon, the second at dinner, the third and last at "turn-in."

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844

The rest of the watch passed away quietly; and at eight bells I made haste to turn-in, for I was tremendously tired. When we were called again for the four to eight watch on deck, I learnt that one of the men in the Mate's watch had seen a light, soon after we had gone below, and had reported it, only for it to disappear immediately.

William Hope Hodgson - The Ghost Pirates

Turn-in "all standing," and keep ourselves awake, saying there is no use in going asleep to be waked up again. Wind whistles on deck, and ship works hard, groaning and creaking, and pitching into a heavy head sea, which strikes against the bows, with a noise like knocking upon a rock. The dim lamp in the forecastle swings to and fro, and things "fetch away" and go over to leeward.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast