31 Verbs to Use for the Word hammock

"I'll come over next summer and swing your hammock for you, and put up your tennis-net.

For several days, Sukey was too ill to leave his hammock.

When the man came home, he said that Mr. Harry would not sleep in the Englishman's dirty house, but had slung a hammock out under the trees.

In the interior hung a hammock or two; and on the ground glimmered a little fire, under a heap of ashes, in which a few roots, Indian corn, and bananas, were roasting.

The day after my installation, as we were all getting into our hammocks, or flock beds, Peters entered suddenly into our chamber, which was only a cellar contiguous to his own, and so filled with barrels and kegs, that we could scarcely find room to sling our hammocks.

" "Who cut my hammock down?" roared the quarter-master.

" Penelope took the hammock, but she kept it only during the first inch of Ormsby's cigar.

Untitled drawing depicting Turkish hammock.

One night the sailor who occupied the hammock next to his heard him winding up his watch.

And I had ordered a hammock to be fixed, by silken ropes, from the four corners at the top, to break the jolts when a servant carried me before him on horseback, as I sometimes desired; and would often sleep in my hammock while we were upon the road.

When he was come into the middle of the chamber, suddenly, as he parted with Sacnoth a great hammock of strands, he saw a spider before him that was larger than a ram, and the spider looked at him with eyes that were little, but in which there was much sin, and said: 'Who are you that spoil the labour of years all done to the honour of Satan?'

Every person was glad that the ship had escaped an execution; and then it was the hour for piping down the hammocks, and for shifting the dogwatches.

"Wouldn't you prefer this nice hammock?"

With one foot listlessly dragging on the floor of the portico so as to propel the hammock, and lying partly on my face while I soothed my wide-eyed doll to sleep, I lay swaying in childish fashion when I heard Evelyn's soft step beside me, accompanied by another, firmer, slower, but as gentle if not as light.

It is three o'clock in the morning, I quit my hammock; for the excitement of my spirits banishes sleep.

Harry sprang from his bed, and making his way in the darkness he knew not whither, finally found himself in the captain's state-room, which was unoccupied, and seizing a candle, reached his hammock just as Mr. Sampson returned.

[Illustration: upward facing curve] Ease, comfort (resembles a hammock).

At seven o'clock in the morning the jailer came in, wished the Representative "Good-morning," made him get up, and rolled up the hammock on its shelf near the ceiling.

"I'm almost sure I sent some hammocks and a croquet set," remarked Uncle John.

The frog said: "Under that tree is a hammock; go to sleep in it for an hour, and three women will wake you by shaking the hammock.

The Indian, who surveys from his canoe this new chaos, this confusion of earth and sea, suspends his hammock on an elevated branch, and sleeps without fear in the midst of so great danger.

Turning his head from time to time for a glance behind, he had seen Mr. Merrick come from the barn with a red book in his hand and approach the hammock, whereupon the young lady arose and exhibited a second book.

The Mauritia palm- tree, the tree of life of the missionaries, not only affords the Guaraons a safe dwelling during the risings of the Oroonoco, but its shelly fruit, its farinaceous pith, its juice, abounding in saccharine matter, and the fibres of its petioles, furnish them with food, wine, and thread proper for making cords and weaving hammocks.

Brilliant orioles flashed to and fro like gleams of gold in the sunlight, as they built their airy hammocks high among the swaying branches of the great willow, and one inquisitive robin swept boldly through the clustering vines which screened the front of the veranda and perched upon his shoulder.

Uncle Timothy, however, also persisted, went into town and bought a hammock, and returning hung it under the trees.

31 Verbs to Use for the Word  hammock