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... could even see a tire suspended by a rope from a thick tree branch, and a hammock strung between each tree. Kane knew not why he could visualize thes... ...isualize these things so clearly, knew not why he could see himself in the hammock swaying back and forth on a lazy Sunday afternoon, while nearby one...

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...It is a healing tempo...I am grateful... These are lazy, summer days, the hammocks full, doves cooing in the olives. I send my thoughts on a long tr...

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...t door in eco module M3. You examine your assigned room. Your bunk is a hammock hung longitudinally along the module axis; an orientation and desi...

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...It is a healing tempo...I am grateful... These are lazy, summer days, the hammocks full, doves cooing in the olives. I send my thoughts on a long tr...

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...nying obligations, would they have moments where they too yearned to be in a hammock under their Grandma Lee's cherry trees? In his case he could rec... ... she pulled and pushed herself in a gentle swinging movement as if it were a hammock. Two children on roller skates created a roller derby for themsel...

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...sand questions, but at the moment, he couldn't think of one of them. He found a hammock hung be­ tween two trees, and swung lazily, drifting in to a ...

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.... Put your duds in a bag, lad. Boot and saddle for the cavalryman, bag and hammock for the man-of- war’s man.” The transfer from chest to bag was made... ...uns. Chapter 6 B ut on board the seventy-four in which Billy now swung his hammock, very little in the manner of the men and nothing obvious in the de... ...west, lim- ited to ideas of vulgar rascality,—a thief among the swing- ing hammocks during a night-watch, or the man brokers and land-sharks of the se... ...low, was dozing on the uppermost deck whither he had ascended from his hot hammock, one of hundreds suspended so closely wedged together over a lower ... ...ess Billy Budd no more found himself in strange trouble at times about his hammock or his clothesbag or what not. While, as to that smile that occasio... ... nearest midshipman, “tell Albert to come to me.” Albert was the Captain’s hammock-boy, a sort of sea-va- let in whose discretion and fidelity his mas... ...most part exposed to the weather. In general it was at all hours free from hammocks; those of the crew swinging on the lower gun deck, and berth- deck... ...y promptitude not perceptibly merging into hurry, tho’ bordering that. The hammock, the one which had been Billy’s bed when alive, having already been... ...mmotion in the water result- ing from the heavy sloped dive of the shotted hammock into the sea, flew screaming to the spot. So near the hull did they...

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...elped a little the wear and tear of one’s bones when the ship rolled. Rude hammocks made out of old sails were in many cases used as substitutes for t... ...o his pranks were duly appreciated. The poor old black cook! Unlashing his hammock for the night, and finding a wet log fast asleep in it; and then wa... ...ion of the ship, the men in the bunks rolled slowly from side to side; the hammocks swaying in unison. Presently I heard a foot upon the ladder, and l... ...o the deck. Hardly was his back turned, when a long limb was thrust from a hammock opposite, and Doctor Long Ghost, leaping forth warily, whipped the ... ...al. Laying the body out on the forehatch, it was stitched up in one of the hammocks, some “kentledge” being placed at the feet instead of shot. This d... ...nt below, and found one of them dying on a chest. He had fallen out of his hammock in a fit, and was insensible. The eyes were open and fixed, and his... ...xclaimed, “He’s gone!” The body was instantly borne up the ladder. Another hammock was soon prepared, and the dead sailor stitched up as before. Some... ...se of his countryman, and, with his finger, described upon the back of the hammock the figure of a large cross; whereupon it received the death-launch... ...shed from the rigging by an unseen hand; and his shipmate swore that a wet hammock was flirted in his face. Stories like these were related as gospel ...

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...habby sur- roundings. A heap of common mats lay in one corner, with an old hammock slung diagonally above. In the other corner, his head wrapped in a ... ...g storm. With a sigh the girl turned towards the table. Almayer was in his hammock now, already half asleep. “Take the lamp, Nina,” he muttered, drows... ....” Almayer looked after her, astonished. He did not seek the repose of his hammock. He walked the floor absently, some- times stopping by the balustra... ...ing dimly, and her father, tired with the day’s labour, was already in his hammock. Nina put the lamp out and passed into a large room she shared with... ... haze over the sunlit solitude of the settlement. Almayer, just out of his hammock, gazed sleepily at the unwonted appearance of Sambir, wondering vag... ...ght; we haven’t enough hold on this coast. They do what they like. Are our hammocks slung?” “Y es, I told the coxswain. Strange couple over there,” sa... ...ear women’s voices. If you are going to dream you had better get into your hammock. Good-night.” The moon mounted higher, and the warm shadows grew sm... ...lmayer’s Folly “Stop this noise, fool!” said Almayer, quietly. “Pick up my hammock and blankets and take them to the other house. Quick, now!” The smo... ... now!” The smoke burst through the crevices of the door, and Ali, with the hammock in his arms, cleared in one bound the steps of the verandah. “It ha...

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...To be sure they all sleep together in one apartment, but you have your own hammock, and cover yourself with your own blanket, and sleep in your own sk... ...triking a whale. Of things not properly belonging to the room, there was a hammock lashed up, and thrown upon the floor in one corner; also a large sea... ...r things, including my own poor carpet bag, and Queequeg’s canvas sack and hammock, away we went down to “the Moss,” the little Nantucket packet schoo... ...h Boy, the steward, tell me that of a morning he always finds the old man’s hammock clothes all rumpled and tumbled, and the sheets down at the foot, a... ... though — How? how? how? — but the only way’s to stash it; so here goes to hammock again; and in the morning, I’ll see how this plaguey juggling think... ...ion, to swim off into the air. I snored;rolled over; and there I was in my hammock! Now, what do you think of that dream, Flask?” “I don’t know; it se... ... to breed a comfortable localness of feeling, such as pertains to a bed, a hammock, a hearse, a sentry box, a pulpit, a coach, or any other of those s... ...g months of days and weeks, Ahab and anguish lay stretched together in one hammock, rounding in mid winter that dreary, howling Patagonian Cape; then ... ...ates were forced to lace him fast, even there, as he sailed, raving in his hammock. In a strait jacket, he swung to the mad rockings of the gales. And...

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...triking a whale. Of things not properly belonging to the room, there was a hammock lashed up, and thrown upon the floor in one corner; also a large se... ...r things, including my own poor carpet-bag, and Queequeg’s canvas sack and hammock, away we went down to “the Moss,” the little Nantucket packet schoo... ...-Boy, the steward, tell me that of a morning he always finds the old man’s hammock clothes all rumpled and tumbled, and the sheets down at the foot, a... ...ng, though— How? how? how?—but the only way’s to stash it; so here goes to hammock again; and in the morning, I’ll see how this plaguey juggling think... ...g months of days and weeks, Ahab and anguish lay stretched together in one hammock, rounding in mid winter that dreary, howling Patagonian Cape; then ... ...ates were forced to lace him fast, even there, as he sailed, raving in his hammock. In a strait-jacket, he swung to the mad rockings of the gales. And... ...ies; but under precisely similar circumstances, let him be called from his hammock to view his ship sailing through a midnight sea of milky whiteness—... ... wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms. Often, when forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vivid dreams of the night, which, res... ...asedly steadfast hunter of the white whale; this Ahab that had gone to his hammock, was not the agent that so caused him to burst from it in horror ag...

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...n Maryon was heard hailing from the beach. He had been carried down in his hammock, and looked very bad; but he insisted on being stood there on his f... ... and asks for Captain Maryon. The Captain, ill as he was, was slung in his hammock betwixt two trees, that he might direct; and he raised his head, an... ...up.” “Sir,” says Captain Maryon, chafing a little, as he looked out of his hammock; “between the chances of Government taking this up, and my ship tak... ...ting this coat on?” “Mr. Pordage,” says Captain Maryon, looking out of his hammock again, “as I can hear what you say, I can answer it without troubli... ... He was always flitting about me, dancing round me, and peeping in over my hammock, though I woke and dozed off again fifty times. At last, when I ope... ...n side of the little dark hut; which was made of leaves, and had Charker’s hammock slung in it as well as mine. 16 The Perils of Certain English Pris... ...I was awoke by the words, “He is a determined man.” I had sprung out of my hammock, and had seized my firelock, and was standing on the ground, saying... ...ered his piece. “Gill,” says I. “Why, what the deuce do you do out of your hammock?” says he. “Too hot for sleep,” says I; “is all right?” “Right!” sa... ...pon him to rouse him. The instant I touched him he came rolling out of his hammock, and upon me like a tiger. And a tiger he was, except that he knew ...

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...geant, that he never saw men behave better on board ship than these men.’ ‘They did behave very well, sir.’ Charles Dickens 78 ‘I was glad to see, to... ...arles Dickens 78 ‘I was glad to see, too, that every man had a hammock.’ The sergeant gravely shook his head. ‘There must be some mistake, sir. The me... ... his head. ‘There must be some mistake, sir. The men of my own mess had no hammocks. There were not hammocks enough on board, and the men of the two n... ... hold of hammocks for them- selves as soon as they got on board, and squeezed my men out, as I may say.’ ‘Had the squeezed-out men none then?’ ‘None, ... ...ing Pangloss whether he had ever heard of biscuit getting drunk and bar- tering its nutritious qualities for putrefaction and vermin; of peas becoming... ...dive as deep as he could go high. The next adventure that befell me in my visit to the Short- Timers, was the sudden apparition of a military band. I ...

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...ere asleep or smoking opium. It was Charlie’s watch. Kitchell dozed in his hammock in the shadow of the mainsheet. Wilbur was below tinkering with his... ... forward during that night—Charlie with the hands, Wilbur in the Captain’s hammock. The reason for this change of quar- ters had been found in a perem... ...! they need to be clumped in the head.” That same night Wilbur woke in his hammock on the fo’c’stle head about half-past two. The moon was down, the s... ...arning, he felt the schooner begin to lift under him. He rolled out of his hammock and stood on the deck. There could be no doubt of it—the whole fore... ...nk bime-by him go away, once a mo’.” That same night, Wilbur, lying in his hammock, was awakened by a touch on his arm. He woke to see Moran beside hi... ...n in the night—or rather early in the morning— Wilbur woke suddenly in his hammock without knowing why, and got up and stood listening. The “Bertha Mi... ...e could upon the slippery carcass, dug out the lump and bound it up in the hammock. “Hoh!” exclaimed Moran, with sudden exultation. “There’s a lot of ... ...ne of the nostrils fairly prinkled with the sensation. Moran unleashed the hammock, and going down upon one knee examined the lump attentively. “It di... ...do four knots to their one, just let us get clear once.” Moran dragged the hammock back into the cabin, and, returning upon deck, helped Wilbur to cut...

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...d to a dinner the king and notables of Makin. In the midst was the house, with a verandah front and back, and three is rooms within. In the verandah w... ... case of trouble, and we retired to bed at the accus- tomed hour, agreeably excited by the day’s events. The night was exquisite, the silence enchanti...

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...t, and prepared for the combat. The fishing implements were laid along the hammock nettings. The second lieutenant loaded the blun- der busses, which ... ...of 200 feet, were tied to each other by garlands of bindweed, real natural hammocks, which a light breeze rocked. They were mimosas, figs, hibisci, an...

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...did not become more intimate than at first. The Senora was swing- ing in a hammock half-asleep, with a cigarette between her lips, all the morning; an... ...hat strangers must sleep on the ground, for first-comers had all the beds’—hammocks slung up in a barn, or unwhole- some cupboards in the wall. At the... ...English.’ He could at first see no one, but presently was aware of a grass hammock swung from the richly-carved beams, and in it something white; then...

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...n. He returned on board, as he had left, unheard and unseen. He lay in his hammock utterly exhausted and with a confused feeling that he had been beyo... ... night. He was beginning to forget what simple, honest sleep was like. His hammock from the ship had been hung for him on a side ve- randah, and he sp... ...within the house: and suddenly he became aware of Luiz standing by 53 the hammock—obviously troubled. “What’s the matter?” “Tse! Tse! Tse!” “Well, wh... ... back.” The half-caste’s teeth chattered slightly. Renouard got out of the hammock. “And he is here all the time—eh?” Luiz nodded a scared affirmative... ...vice was put under the charge of a trustworthy seaman, who slung his first hammock for him and often later on became a sort of humble friend to the ju... ...urriedly: “‘Mind, Davy! I’ve told them that you generally sleep aft in the hammock under the awning over the cabin. They have been asking me about you... ...hodically. “He fetched a lot of clothing from below and disposed it in his hammock in such a way as to distend it to the shape of a human body; then h... ...ulky shadow came up the ladder without a sound, made two steps towards the hammock (it hung right over the skylight), and stood mo- tionless. The Fren... ... put greater force into the blow, bring the seven-pound weight down on the hammock where the head of the sleeper ought to have been. “Davidson admitte...

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...t, and both got up. Almayer kicked off his slippers and scrambled into his hammock, which hung between two wooden columns of the veran- dah so as to c... ...d fought the current with long sweeps of the paddle. Almayer sat up in his hammock, grasping his feet and peer- ing over the river with parted lips ti... ...ke the gun? Hey?” he yelled, straining his voice. Then he fell back in his hammock and laughed to himself feebly till he fell asleep. On the river, Wi... ...iddle of 66 An Outcast of the Islands the night Willems leaped out of his hammock with a stifled execration and ran down the steps into the courtyard... ...he seat of the big rocking-chair, on a pillow which he took out of his own hammock, and stood for a while looking down at her with tender and pensive ... ...ty well scared. He hung about, 140 An Outcast of the Islands arranging my hammock—one thing and another. Then just before going away he mentioned tha... ...rt pause: “They held me, shouting threats in my face. Willems took down my hammock and threw it to them. He pulled out the drawer of this table, and f... ...he wanted. By his or- ders they laid me out on the floor, wrapped me in my hammock, and he started to stitch me in, as if I had been a corpse, beginni... ...chair that I can’t feel angry.’ I made a frantic effort to burst out of my hammock to get at that scoundrel’s throat, but I only fell off and upset th...

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...ely reason- able terms; and when I got there I found Margaret sitting in a hammock at Altiora’s feet. Lots of people, I gathered, were coming and goin... ...ed to the daughter of this 296 The New Machiavelli friend and that in the hammocks under the trees, and picked a way among the scattered tea-parties ...