hammock

• They on their part declared that he was very agreeable and good-looking, and that he behaved like a polished gentleman, conducting himself at table with thorough propriety The judge offered him a bed, but he declined, saying that, accustomed as he was to sleeping in the open air, he should prefer to pass the night in the veranda,--where a hammock was accordingly slung for him, so that he might occupy it whenever he felt disposed I forgot to say that Rochford, being introduced to my cousins, at once entered into conversation, and appeared to be winning his way into their good graces. —  In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting
• Each man has to put three hitches around his hammock--seven are the uniform number--but the enemy is in sight, therefore three hitches have to suffice to keep blanket and bedding together. —  From Lower Deck to Pulpit
• The hammock is then unhooked, and if the bluejacket belongs to the former part of the ship, he has to bear it away for storage on the topgallant forecastle; if to the after-part, he carries it away to the poop. —  From Lower Deck to Pulpit
• Next morning I heard this gentleman muttering in his hammock, and now and then letting fall an imprecation or two, 'What is the matter, Sir,' said I softly, 'is anything amiss?' —  Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals
• She leaned back in the hammock, and he continued: "I wish I could water the radishes and mignonette with the tender dews of memory."--"Why?" —  Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886

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