This was a shakedown cruise, but it was probably combined with the voyage of getting to some battle zone.
The older crew members, most of whom had served under Gray before, caught this spirit and felt that all this was a good sign, a good omen for a new ship just starting out on her shakedown cruise.
On their shakedown cruise they had been too interested in their new life—the huge ship and the men they worked with—to feel disappointment over missing out on their chosen fields.
We won't have a chance to give the ship a shakedown cruise because once we take off we might as well keep going--which we will.
They'd been on shakedown cruises before, and they knew that on an interstellar vessel the word "shakedown" can have a very literal meaning.
Then I'll come down with you and have a shakedown on your sofa.
The queer old shakedown was torn to pieces and the poles used for Ham's bed, the rest of it was shoved out of the back door and set afire.
The shakedown was too dry to be comfortable, and Ham's aerial bunk had not yet been completed.
He glanced at the shakedown which Mrs. Van Zandt had sent over by Miller, the idea of a rope ladder made of sheets having floated idly through his head.
Alas, theshakedown consisted of a small hard mattress and a couple of blankets, army blankets at that.
Juan Baptisto Pachuca had not availed himself of the shakedown made for him by Mrs. Van Zandt's blankets.
Bambo's usual shakedown was deserted; the pallet where the children should have been was unoccupied.
At length his eyes rolling from side to side focused themselves on a low opening near the foot of his shakedown bed.
The room contained two shakedown beds and a stool, there was a window in the gable, but a piece of heavy plank was spiked before it.
A shakedown bed in one corner of the room was tastefully screened from the public gaze by a tattered quilt.
But Dick had returned home late the night before-- fatigued after a long journey--and in consequence had snored upon his shakedown of straw, until the bells of Bulstrode were tolling twelve.
And here he offers of his own free will to watch the house at night for a week, or as long as is necessary, if we will just give him a shakedown in the shed.
The two had just been preparing Pippin's shakedown in the shed, she deprecating, fearing he would sleep but poorly on a straw mattress, he glowing with praise of as dandy an outfit as anyone would want to see.
In all our movings and re-furnishings, the first proceeding was to go in ourselves; a shakedown and something to eat, and we set to work from the centre and not from the outside.
He was carried into the jail office by several officers, and after coming into the jail office by myself, I held one of Jack Ruby's legs while he was given a quick shakedown before he was taken upstairs.
Had him down on his back, and I held his left leg while he was doing a quick shakedown and then he was taken to the elevator and upstairs, and that is the last that I saw of him.
I stretch on the boords without any shakedown whatsumdever.
Gumley returned to his shakedownand was soon fast asleep.
Gumley's method of guarding De Fronsac was to make a temporary kennel for the dog outside the window of the front room in which the prisoner was lodged, and a shakedown for himself by the door.
Thar's a shakedown in the wagon bed; you kin lie there.
As there don't seem to be no hotel hereabouts, I reckon I kin put up my mustang here and have a shakedown somewhere behind that counter," he said.
Every berth was taken, so I had a shakedown in the corridor, which was much more airy than any cabin.
