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  • The wind was freshening rapidly, the Ghost heeling over more and more, and by the time the state-room was ready she was dashing through the water at a lively clip.

    Chapter 18 2010

  • This morning, however, on entering his state-room to make the bed and put things in order, I found him well and hard at work.

    Chapter 10 2010

  • Next day Johansen, the new mate, was routed from the cabin by Wolf Larsen, and sent into the steerage to sleep thereafter, while I took possession of the tiny cabin state-room, which, on the first day of the voyage, had already had two occupants.

    Chapter 5 2010

  • She leaned heavily against me, and I do believe that she had fallen asleep again between the arm-chair and the state-room.

    Chapter 18 2010

  • “And make all haste,” I added, as she turned toward her state-room.

    Chapter 26 2010

  • “The first Anarchist,” Maud laughed, rising and preparing to withdraw to her state-room.

    Chapter 26 2010

  • Though the cook had a cubby-hole of a state-room opening off from the cabin, in the cabin itself he had never dared to linger or to be seen, and he flitted to and fro, once or twice a day, a timid spectre.

    Chapter 8 2010

  • For that matter he had already dispatched orders to Mr. Pike, the first mate of the Elsinore, to knock out the partition between my state-room and the spare state-room adjoining.

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • Not to be tiresome, I shall say that I fetched the book from his state-room and read “Caliban” aloud.

    Chapter 8 2010

  • I recollected the handcuffs in his state-room, which he preferred to use on sailors instead of the ancient and clumsy ship irons.

    Chapter 36 2010

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