More than once he had scented death in tepees and cabins, which he had not entered, and more than once he had sniffed at the mystery of death that was not quite present, but nearjust as he had caught at a distance the subtle warning of storm and of fire.

He hated all cabins, for they all breathed of the club and the whip and bondage.

In scores of forest cabins, in smoke-blackened tepees, and even in the frozen homes of the little Eskimos, anticipation of this wild night of pleasure had given an added zest to life.

The remainder of my time I spent in riding along the river road on the mare my grandfather had given me, or wandering over the estate and in and out among the negro cabins.

If you like ships, I should be glad to show you the Montauk's cabins when we get back; and if you ever think of Europe, let me recommend the London line as none of the worst.

Immediately in front of the machine-room, which occupied the centre of the vessel, were two cabins, about sixteen feet square, reaching from side to side.

Beyond these, opening out of a passage running along one side, were two smaller cabins about eight feet long.

In the foremost of the larger cabins were a couple of desks, and three or four writing or easy chairs.

Her entire length was about one hundred and eighty feet, her depth, from the flat deck to the wide keel, about one half of her breadth; the height of the cabins not much more than eight feet; her draught, when most completely lightened, not more than four feet.

Poor men's smoky cabins are not always porticoes of moral philosophy.

There are five or six hundred fishermen, occupying one hundred and fifty cabins, who make a good trade of the Shebbel salmon; it has a very small garrison.

Officers from the Cameroon have confirmed the filthy habits of the Huns and Hunnesses, how they defiled the rooms in the hospital at Duala that they occupied just before they were sent away; how disgusting were their habits in the cabins of the fine Atlantic liner that took them back to Europe.

New portions of ground were cleared, cabins were erected; and in a short time the settlement could turn out a dozen efficient hands for house raising or log rolling.

These were occupied and the "entry" between the cabins was filled by children.

Some extra attention had been paid to the appearance of the meadows on this side of the Knoll, and the captain had studiously kept their skirts, as far as the eye could see from the windows, in virgin forest; placing the barns, cabins, and other detached buildings, so far south as to be removed from view.

At first the grey of the palisades became visible; then the chapel, in its sombre outlines; the skirts of the woods; the different cabins that lined them; the cattle in the fields, and the scattering trees.

Wad ye think it, baith, gentlemen, that our people are in their am cabins ag'in, boiling their pots, and frying their pork, a' the same as if the valley was in a state of tranquillity, and we so many lairds waiting for them to come and do our pleasure!"

On alternate nights the dancing is by the children, of whom there are thirty-seven under fifteen years of age living in the cabins with their parents, dressed just like their great-great-grandfathers and grand mothers when they were of the same age.

I had only a few moments to write before we left Suez, and my writing, such as it was, I performed under difficulties, as the bustle of passengers finding their cabins, and conveying to them their luggage, or such portions of it as they could rescue from its descent into the hold, was going on all around me.

The cabins were already full of water, and the object was to land the passengers.

We dined in one of their cabins, on lean mutton and corn bread.

When the lie (the Sauk) had talked thus to my white brother, he comes, thirty, up to my villagewe hear our brother is comingwe are glad, and leave our cabins to tell him he is welcomebut while I shake hands with my white brother," he said, pointing to his forehead, "my white brother shoots me through the headmy best chiefthree of my young men, a squaw and his child.

R58617, 17Feb50, Moses Laflaver Cummings (A) AVERAGE CABINS, a novel, by Isabel Constance Clarke.

The seat was well chosen, for the cowering trees are like a shed over it, and there is a pleasant landscape in front (though that mattered little to Andy), a landscape of dim green moorswith brown stains on them where sedge grows and black shadows where bushes huddle in cleftschequered by a grey net of low walls, dotted with the white gables of cabins, and framed by a wavering line of hills.

Once, before the world grew hard, they gathered in the cabins, and the roughest fare grew pleasanter, the saddest hearts lighter, from their good wishes; but no one cares for them now, and they cannot rest in unfriendly houses.