He gave the buck a wide berth after that.

and at parting from one's nearest relative, perhaps for the remainder of his life, one must hide the grief that racks the heart, with an enquiry as to whether he has got a comfortable berth and has remembered his umbrella.

The boy, who was scarce nineteen, had secured a berth as ensign in Peyronie's company, and he came frequently with his captain to our quarters to listen with all his ears to our stories of the Fort Necessity affair.

"Then, you had better come with me and I'll find you a berth where you won't be disturbed," he said.

Whilst shifting her berth to a more convenient spot, the Endeavour was fired on by one of the forts owing to some misunderstanding, but satisfactory apologies and explanations were made, and it was thought so little of that neither Cook nor Banks mention it in their Journals.

"A ship passes here in the morning for America; I have taken two berths in it for you and me; to-morrow we shall be sailing away to a new world, and leaving all these troubles behind.

Lister wondered why he had left his berth.

The ladies remained below most of the time; and as for Drewett himself, he was advised by Post not to quit his berth until he found his strength restored.

After pa and I got to sleep that baboon got my clothes, and put them on, slipped the chain over his head, jumped through the transom, and went into every berth where the transom was open, and chatted with the people who occupied the berths.

When the young ploughman resolves to quit the hamlet for the backwoods of America or the sheepwalks of Australia, he comes here to engage his berth.

At last, however, she was ready, and was about to make an attempt to reach the upper berth, which was the one allotted to her by number, when a quick, imperative gesture from her companion stopped her.

At length it came to be rumoured among the sealers that the fires must be permitted to go out, or that the materials used for making the berths, and various other fixtures of the house, must be taken to supply the stove.

"In fact, I think I can promise you another berth.

by steamer to New Orleans, and thence rail, food, and sleeping berth on steamer included.

"I should have known you anywhere," continued the other, mournfully; "and here I've thrown up a splendid berth and come all the way from Australia just for one glimpse of Miss Kybird, and she doesn't know me.

The two officers, so anomalously associated, entered their berth the best of friends and talked together far into the night.

But the captain and the ship's doctor cut short any attempt at lionizing by rushing the midshipmen to a stateroom containing three berths.

It seemed that, booked for Paris on the rapide to leave at one-twelve in the morning, this lesser rascal had been assigned a certain sleeping-car berth.

The dog's worked hard, and maybe he's earned a soft berth

She had chosen a berth sufficiently within the shallow water to be safe from the guns of the frigate, though scarcely within the river.

After this, all the men were permitted to seek their berths; the officers looking out for the craft in turns.

The wind dying away to a calm, we were compelled to select a berth, and anchor.

He apprehended a tedious time of waiting before he gained his berth.

By order of the War Office he obtained berths for us on the liner Morea, of the P. and O. Line.

How different was Harry's situation from what it would have been had his father procured for him a berth; as it was, he was doomed to no common hardships, for the captain, having taken a dislike to him from the first, seemed to take pleasure in making him as uncomfortable as possible; and had it not been that he was a favorite with the crew, he would have suffered many times from exposure.