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Footnote 1: Hammocks and bedsteads were unknown prior to their introduction by the traders and other white people.
In a wing of the building Julie saw a great upstairs gallery where two hammocks were hung.
She and her followers spent the evenings on the Calcedos' balcony, in the midst of an assortment of banjoes, rocking in native hammocks and keeping the night alive.
We must be content, my friends, to sleep and take our meals on the ground till we can make some hammocks and form a table and benches," said the captain.
One of our great wants had been hammocks in which to sleep, they being far cooler and more healthy than standing bed-places.
From the upper beams the hammocks are suspended; while, on the flooring, a hearth of clay is formed, on which fires are lighted for cooking their food.
The snake with sinuous grace moved away from me with gradually accelerated speed, and, passing right under the hammocks of my men, disappeared in the forest behind.
The tree to which one of the hammocks had been fastened had suddenly broken and let the man down with a bump.
My men hung their hammocks on the edge of the forest.
On September 12th we drowsily got up from our hammocks in a dejected state.
Towards sunset rain came down once more in bucketfuls and lasted the entire night, the water dripping from our hammocks as it would from a small cascade.
Not once during the whole journey did my men offer me one of their hammocks when they saw me sleeping with great discomfort on packing-cases or on the ground.
Adair ordered their hammocks to be slung, and being assisted in, they lay helpless till the gale was over.
They ought properly to have kept the morning watch, but they were not called till the hammocks were piped up.
Last night when he turned in his hair was as black as mine, and this morning, when the hammocks were piped up, it was as you see it.
Jack and Terence did not get back till daylight, when they found that Tom and Gerald had been snug in their hammocksfor several hours.
They arranged to build a barricade of hammocks and bags to defend the helmsman on the port side while the crew were sent below, they of course intending to remain on deck.
The dead were sewn up in their hammocks with shot at their feet, and lowered into the deep stream, as there was no prospect of being able to bury them on shore.
Upon its network of parasites it was possible to repose; there were hammocks woven by the hand of Nature, and, rude as they might be, they were a pleasant improvement on their couches of the preceding night.
Despite the coarse netting of the hammocks on which they were constrained to pass the night, our adventurers slept better than was their wont, from a certain feeling of security,--a confidence that God had not forgotten them.
Hammocks could be seen suspended from free to tree, some empty, and some still holding a sleeper.
We then hauled up our hammocks and bedding and slung them from the branches we had left for that purpose.
Fritz reminded me that sleeping on the ground, even with the leaves and moss the boys had collected, had been both cold and hard, and prevailed upon me to increase our cargo by some hammocks and blankets.
We heard 'Clear lower deck' being shouted along the mess decks and bugles sounding aboard the Hercules, so instead of undressing we shifted into uniform, whilst every one else tumbled out of their hammocks and shifted into theirs.
Hammocks (kaan) of cotton or henequen fiber are always conspicuous articles of furniture, as they are slung all around the room, making it very difficult to move about in it when they are let down.
Nevertheless, one of our number bravely threw down his blanket within, and went to sleep; two swung their hammocks between the trees, and the rest slept in the canoe.
All eatables and hammocks have to be hung by cords smeared with copaiba balsam.
They manufacture, from the twisted fibre of the chambiri-palm,[104] most of the twine and hammocks seen in Eastern Ecuador.
The passengers, however, usually swung their hammocks on the upper deck, which was covered by an awning.
A woman will twist a hundred yards of twine a day, and make a living by selling hammocks for twenty-five cents a piece.
In pitch darkness and in a drizzling rain we arrived at New Santa Rosa, and swung our hammocks in the Government House.
The habitations are generally a frame-work of poles, thatched with palm-leaves; the walls sometimes latticed and plastered with mud, and the furniture chiefly hammocks and earthen vessels.
Now we are in a land where there are bull hide beds and canvas cots instead ofhammocks and ice and railroads and direct communication with steamship lines.
Isn't that a pitiable situation when a captain of an English company happens to stray into the war office, and happens to have a good heart and busies himself to see that our own men are supplied with hammocks and spending money.
It has been a great lesson for me, and I have rubber tents, rubber blankets, rubber coats and hammocks enough for an army corps.
As soon as the chests and hammocks were on the deck, he told them that when he could get the anchor up and make sail, he would give them some bottled porter.
The Aurora made sail with the Trident in tow; the hammocks were allowed to be taken down, and the watch below permitted to repose.
A rope on which hammocksor clothes are hung for drying.
There was no difficulty about this, Gascoigne and I arranging to sling our hammocks in the late captain's stateroom, which left the chief and second mates' staterooms available for Simmons and Henderson.
As for the men, they simply screened off a portion of the mess-deck near the main hatchway, and slung their hammocks there, the wounded being accommodated in that portion of the mess-deck forward of the screen.
They took out of the Great Cabbin Two Chests of Pieces of Eight, with some Hammocks and Cloaths from between Decks, and so left her.
This trough is termed the hammock-nettings, and the hammocks are placed there to be well aired.
In ships of war the top of the bulwarks forms a sort of trough all round the ship, in which the hammocks (the swinging-beds) of the men are stowed away every morning.
The dismalness of the prospect was of course vastly exaggerated by the feeble light of the candle, which, swaying in my hand, flung a swarming of shadows upon the scene, through which the hammocks glimmered wan and melancholy.
The party finding no tree convenient, had stuck their oars in the sand, and suspended their hammocks upon them.
This is particularly true of the hammocks made in the regions of the upper Rio Negro, which are beautifully decorated with the feathers of parrots, toucans and other birds of brilliant plumage.
The neighboring Indians manufacture large and beautiful hammocks from the leaves of the Cumare and other palms and bring them here and exchange them for anything that may strike their fancy.
One sees scores of hammocks swung in every conceivable place.
The common hammocks of the Indians are generally open, that is, not closely woven, and colored red with roucou or arnotto.
The second-class passengers sleep in their hammocks if they happen to have them; if not, they lie down anywhere they can find room and are soon fast asleep.
From the fibres of the leaf, they make their hammocks and their cords for fishing and for bowstrings.
Mention is made of hammocks by Vespucci and Alonso de Ojeda as early as 1498.
The hammocks are never coloured; but they are sometimes decorated with a few Pandanus or malage seeds hung from their borders.
The base of this line again formed a series made one of these lines of mesh for my instruction; but it is usual in the making of hammocks to have two or three of them, as appears in the figure.
Hammocks are also used in the island to carry travellers into districts where rough and winding paths make the carro impracticable, and bullock carts are to be seen on the farms and vineyards.
The Europeans of the party either walk too, or are carried in hammocks slung on poles.
Wounded men or those ill with fever are often taken for many miles in this fashion, and in Nigeria special hospital hammocks are provided for this purpose on which the familiar red cross may be seen.
A network of ropes used for various purposes, as for holding the hammocks when not in use, also for stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding.
A piece of canvas used to cover the hammockswhich are lashed to the top in action to protect the topmen.
Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hammocks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
