At night great beasts snarled and roared about their tiny
cabin, but, so accustomed may one become to oft repeated noises, that soon they paid little attention to them, sleeping soundly the whole night through.
Imperial Electors, so these
cabin meals were somehow solemn meals, eaten in awful silence; and yet at table old Ahab forbade not conversation; only he himself was dumb.
"Ay, ay," said Jukes blithely, and he strode into the
cabin. They followed him with their eyes; they scarce knew that Hook had resumed his song, his dogs joining in with him:
I ate and slept with the people, in their little
cabins. I saw their farms, their schools, their churches.
Coulson groaned as he made his way across the threshold of the
cabin.
One of the hunters, a tall, loose-jointed chap named Henderson, was going aft at the time from the steerage (the name the hunters facetiously gave their midships sleeping quarters) to the
cabin. Wolf Larsen was on the poop, smoking his everlasting cigar.
But they laughed, and some crowded into the
cabin and some climbed up on top.
As she sat at the
cabin breakfast-table that morning, in her quaintly-made sailing dress of old-fashioned nankeen--her inbred childishness of manner contrasting delightfully with the blooming maturity of her form--the man must have been trebly armed indeed in the modern philosophy who could have denied that the first of a woman's rights is the right of being beautiful; and the foremost of a woman's merits, the merit of being young!
The mate then spoke to me, and, not giving me time to thank the boatswain for his kindness, confirmed what the boatswain had said, and added that it was the captain's delight to show himself kind and charitable, especially to those that were under any misfortunes, and with that he showed me several
cabins built up, some in the great
cabin, and some partitioned off, out of the steerage, but opening into the great
cabin on purpose for the accommodation of passengers, and gave me leave to choose where I would.
She dwelt alone in her solitary
cabin, for the rest of the quarters had long since been removed beyond her sight and knowledge.
He dogged his master's heels whenever he left the
cabin, and haunted the front stoop when he remained inside.
Its prow had scarcely touched when the ape-man leaped to shore--his heart beat fast in joy and exultation as each long-familiar object came beneath his roving eyes--the
cabin, the beach, the little brook, the dense jungle, the black, impenetrable forest.
Half-past six was no longer half-past six to these pilgrims from New England, the South, and the Mississippi Valley, it was "seven bells"; eight, twelve, and four o'clock were "eight bells"; the captain did not take the longitude at nine o'clock, but at "two bells." They spoke glibly of the "after
cabin," the "for'rard
cabin," "port and starboard" and the "fo'castle."
Quickly she hastened to the
cabin, which was half above and half below deck.
They cleared the bank with a rush, swung to the left, and dashed up to a small log
cabin. It was a deserted
cabin of a single room, eight feet by ten on the inside.
