We lived in log houses with woodenbunks nailed to de walls and home-made plank tables and benches.
If you am used to sleepin' in de bunks with straw ticks, it's jus' good as de spring bed.
The hands was woke with the big bell and when massa pulls that bell rope the niggers falls out thembunks like rain fallin'.
When they retired to the comparative comfort of their sopping bunks praying for a rest, it was Nickerson who roused them out and drove them from task to task with lurid oaths and fearful threats.
Seldom a watch reported aft but one or two of their numbers were in their soddenbunks useless through rheumatism, cramps, sea-water boils, shivering fits, bruises or sheer exhaustion.
Amidships, and in what would be the fish hold of a fishing schooner, there was a room fitted with bunks and known as the steerage.
A table was fixed between the fore-mast and the windlass pawl-post, and lockers ran around the lower-bunks and were used as seats.
These upper bunks are the best when the water is sloshing in here a foot-and-half deep.
The galley was situated in the afterpart of the fore-castle, and the rest of the apartment was lined, port and starboard, with two tiers of bunkswhich ran right up into the peak.
But the snores from the bunks proved that most of the gang were not worrying.
Aft in the cabin the watch below slept in the spare bunks so as to be handy for a sudden call.
Ware mean Scotch barques with ornamental donkey-boilers and four heavily-sparred masts and eight able seamen's bunks forever empty in the fo'c'sles.
The crew were huddled in their swaying bunks absolutely exhausted in body and spirits.
Say, did you know that the guy who bunks next to that fresh Bixton is a German-American?
His face turned anxiously in the direction of the stairway; he was not aware that across the squad room a man had noiselessly left his cot and was slipping along cat-footed toward one of the three vacant bunks just beyond Ignace's own.
It would be a cinch for him, because he bunks next to Schnitz.
When the crew turned into their bunks at last, he went over a thousand schemes in his head.
It was more probable that one of the men who lay in their bunks had made the attempt, but it would be useless to examine them.
Instead he looked on a double row of bunks heaped with swarthy quilts, and the boatswain with a silent gesture indicated that one of these belonged to Harrigan.
Three more of the bunks were built in the eastern end of the room; a fireplace occupied a portion of the wall against the hill; a table stood in the centre of the floor, and a number of mining tools littered a corner.
Her gaze searched the bunks swiftly, and Jim was sure she was looking for the little man behind him.
Their heads were stuck forward and they peered from side to side among the bunks with the cruel, searching glance of hens looking for worms.
They had hardly reached theirbunks when someone called, "Attention!
The place was full of tramping of feet and the sound of packs being thrown onbunks as endless files of soldiers poured in down every ladder.
It gave men's faces, tanned as they were, the sickly look of people who work in offices, when they lay on their blankets in the bunks made of chicken wire, stretched across mouldy scantlings.
He was sitting in one of the lowest of three tiers of bunks roughly built of new pine boards.
A little man lying in one of the upper bunks had spoken suddenly, contracting his sallow face into a curious spasm, as if the words had burst from him in spite of an effort to keep them in.
The rest lounged in their bare bunks or fiddled with their packs.
We found some fresh tobacco ash on the table and in one of the bunks which showed that, though the shanty was deserted in summer, somebody was using it for a shelter at night.
Twill be easy to drop below into the cabin an' hide under the bunks until the time comes for launching her.
The bunkslay broken on the floor, and it was plain that the whole apartment had been most thoroughly pillaged.
The boy stood looking about the room for a moment and then walked back to three bunks fastened against the wall, one above the other.
In half a minute the dry slab stuff that the bunks were built of was ablaze and the boss herded us to the door.
In the far end there were a couple of bunksbuilt against the log wall.
Pricked by Spurling's earlier remarks, he had taken an active part in unloading the boats, and he had been glad to throw himself into one of the despised bunks to rest.
It's got bunksfor half a dozen, and at a pinch could hold more.
Boughs of spruce and fir were brought from the woods and strewn in the bunksunder the blankets.
Two bunks can be fitted at the rear end of the cabin, one above the other, the bottom bunk being the lid to a locker (see Fig.
If you put bunks on both sides you will be rather crowded, it is true, but by allowing a 1-foot passage in the middle, you can have two side bunks and plenty of head room.
The aisle between the bunks was very narrow and we crowded and pushed in making up our beds, for everyone was more than anxious to learn more about our boat.
Its bunks with straw mattresses were a welcome change after sleeping on the ground in the forest.
Some were packed upon the baggage racks and managed to get a little sleep,--being used to the bunks on the boat, it was not difficult to adjust ourselves to this situation.
Tired from their trip and work litters made excellent bunks and the men slept the sleep of the weary, their first night under real army conditions.
Ye have yer bunks in queer places, Mr. Cooke,' says I.
Within the cabin was a great fireplace of stones, where our cooking was done, and bunks set round for the men in cold weather and rainy.
They are given their "tucker" andbunks in a shed fitted up for that purpose, and are paid at the rate of 1l.
They inhabit cells burrowed underneath the streets, below the level of the drainage, sleeping in bunks placed one above the other.
The steerage quarters were rather dark, and hearing voices Jack stepped aside into a narrow passageway between the bunks to let a couple of men pass.
The two turned into the same passageway which concealed Jack, and the latter recognizing the voice of Dublin sank down into one of the further berths as the others sat down on a couple of bunks near the entrance.
In the space between the bunks was a stationary table, with stools for seats.
In one end was a fireplace, and there were two tiers of bunks on each side, supplied with straw only.
Guns had to be taken apart and made to look better than when they left the armory, brasses to be polished, shoes and equipments blacked, and bunks and barracks put in perfect order.
This building was assigned to the right wing as their quarters for the night, and after our cramped bunks on shipboard, we found the oat-bags very acceptable.
Unused to the ways of the city, the frightened boys obeyed the command, and after they had undressed in the darkness, they climbed into the bunks and being tired out by their sight-seeing, they were soon asleep.
The night wore on, and the boys, unable to stay up any longer, went to the bunks to rest, lashing the steering wheel to keep the rudder straight.
They had to cling to the bunksand the sides of the bulkheads in order not to be thrown down, so violent was the motion of the craft.
The cabin was of good size, and had small bunks in it that could be made up into beds.
The bunks were made up, and there was no confusion.
The Rangers were delighted with the accommodations prepared for them in the hold, which was fitted up with temporary bunks for their use.
So the boys got the compass and began to make a box for it from some bits of board left over when the bunks were built and what few nails they could pick up.
Two sleeping-structures of three bunks each was the rule in the boxes.
The bed uprights had male and female ends which permitted the building of as many superimposed bunks as seemed practicable.
We completed our preparations and then lay down on our bunks in order to get as much sleep as possible while there was a chance.
For nearly four weeks indeed they were occupied very closely, and crept into their bunks at night as tired as wholesome animals who drop to sleep.
Outside and within wall and roof were faced with coarse canvas--that was Trafford's idea--and their bunks occupied two sides of the hut.
It was arranged in the usual manner on board merchant ships--that is to say, it had standing bunks round each side of it, in which the bedding of the unfortunate seamen still remained, precisely as when the ship struck.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bunks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
