530 examples of hammock in sentences
" "I'm delighted to have you," said Nan, who was in a hammock at the other end of the veranda when this conclave was taking place.
She was swinging in her hammock on the back porch; this back porch looked over towards the sea, a grass plat touched the edge of the porch and then came the garden; it was a kitchen garden, and stretched down to the flat rocks, and beyond the flat rocks were the sand and the sea.
Throwing aside her hat, Marjorie dropped down on the floor of the porch, so near the gently swaying hammock that she might touch the soft, white drapery, and in a position to watch Miss Prudence's face.
There were no books or papers in the hammock.
She presented the paper, congratulating herself upon her escape, and Miss Prudence lifted herself in the hammock and took the pencil, holding it in her fingers while she meditated.
" The opportunity to run away was better than the ride; hastening down to the hammock she laid the Bible in Miss Prudence's lap.
So now for the first time she is given a native servant, carried in state down the mountain-side in a hammock, and installed in the German hospital in Morogoro.
"How can you skip from one side o' the earth to the other as easily as a flea can cross a hammock?
"When I left the settlement," he began, as he turned his mooseskin, hammock-like chair toward the open fireplace, and invited his guests to do likewise, "I struck straight into the wilderness.
Anyway, Lady Doraine and that horrid Smith creature made a place for me in the empty hammock between them, and, as I knew my "frillies" were all right, I hammocked too, and it was lovely.
He is the proud possessor of a sweet-heart, a gamecock, a horse, a hammock, a guitar and a large supply of tobacco.
I have slept on the various beds of the world,in a hammock, in a pew, on German feathers, on a bear-skin, on a mat, on a hide; all, all give but a feeble, restless, unrecreating slumber, compared to the spruce or hemlock bed in a forest of Maine.
" It seemed to me on that foggy frosty day, that to lie in a hammock in the shade, with the temperature about ninety, watching coolies work, would be the perfect form of labour.
"Elephants, spicy breezes, swing in a hammock all day watching coolies.
The man or woman who had nothing to do lay in a hammock or squatted on the ground leaning against a post or wall.
One woman was weaving a cloth, another was making a hammock; others made ready melons and other vegetables and cooked them over tiny fires.
One night he heard one of these traps go off under his hammock.
From the Brazilians one or two of them had obtained blankets, and one a hammock; and they had also obtained knives, which they sorely needed, for they are not even in the stone age.
Every one else had a hammock.
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The first is that of a poor young girl who was dreadfully burnt by lying in a hammock when it caught fire: "She seemed a very meek and patient child, and her look of gratitude for our sympathy was most affecting.
I was in my house, in my hammock, and the wind was swinging it.
It was probably the hammock that did all the swinging, but I thought it was the house, and I had one foot on the floor to try and steady it.
"I caught hold of the sides of the hammock, but it was some time before I could manage to pull myself up.
There seemed no interval before I found myself sitting in the hammock and saying over and over again, 'But where's the little chap?