There; we are as snug and comfortable as possible," exclaimed Porpoise, as the operation was completed.
The other meant that he should find possible safety in this snug retreat, while he took chances of discovering another hole in which to burrow.
He blinked his little eyes as the glare of the great conflagration dazzled his vision; but at the same time there was not the faintest indication that Mr. Bruin thought of dropping back into his snug retreat.
Not for the whole world would he offer the slightest objection to such a process, for he wanted that snug den in the stump, and he wanted it more, apparently, than the beast did.
The winter had come to stay, and it waxed more and more severe, till the unprecedented cold of the last days of December must have astonished even the wise muskrats in their snug retreat.
Then wrapping it about with a thick layer of long rye straw, and tucking it up snug and warm, the mound was covered, with a thin coating of earth, a flat stone on the top holding down the straw.
The nest was a very snug and compact structure placed in the forks of a small maple about twelve feet from the ground.
I should besnug here, awaiting the affair in the cathedral on the morrow.
We could be comfortable all winter in a snug camp.
Cows and oxen were secured in a log barn as snug as the cabin.
When everything had been made snug above deck, and the harbor officials had made their visit, dusk was on.
It was then the schooner again took our notice, for the sails began to come down again, and soon they were all snug between gaffs and booms.
Our trade, which lately bloomed like a Neapolitan spring-day, is now covered with clouds and sifted with ashes, as if some angry Vesuvius had exploded its contents over us and shot the hot lava-tides among our snug vineyards and cottages.
Nothing but a sea-gull ever goes in and out of Wheal Danes; even the bats keep there, where indeed they are snug and warm enough.
What is it that a gentleman is now obliged to go through before he can get any of these snug things one used to get for the asking?
In the meantime I wish to goodness we had a good scud o' cash among us, an' we safe an' snug in America!
This is a snug little cabin; but, plaise God, in the coorse of a week or so, I'll have you more comfortable than you are.
When the nest is newly made, as that one was which I first examined, and if you happen to view it on a hot day, no doubt it seems tolerably snug shelter.
And so we rode quietly home in the gloaming, winding up the lovely, tranquil valley, at whose head stood our own snug little homestead.
The kettle was singing on the fire, everything seemed bright and snug and comfortable indoors.
He had his wife in snug lodgings at Dock; he neither felt for us nor our mammas, so one of the youngsters remarked.
I withdrew my heart from the different little snug rooms I had left it in, and placed it on the right hook.
He had an amiable daughter, and had my heart not been lost in six different places, I think I should have sent it to cruise in her snug little boudoir.
We made ourselves as smart as circumstances would allow, and accompanied him to a snuglittle house where he lived.
October on the old Chesapeake is just glorious, with occasional storms thrown in to make us grateful for this safe, snug little craft.
Get us safe into some snug harbor, please Mr. Stinson, and I will see that you lose nothing by the delay.
Safely anchored, the engineer gone, the old Captain bustling about on the roof of the boat, making all snug and shipshape for the coming night, every heart was light.
But after a time even they grew drowsy and "turned in," finding their new "bunks" as snug as comfortable.
To the traveler who has been in the open all day, the snow house is a cozy retreat and a snug enough place to rest and sleep in.
To their delight they presently found themselves in a harbor, and that night they rested in a safe and snug anchorage sheltered from wind and pounding sea.
The instinct of the dogs led them straight, and when the men had almost despaired of locating the settlement they suddenly drew up before a snug cottage.
Along the southern coast of Labrador the cabins are much closer together than on the east coast, and there are some small settlements in the bays and harbors, with snug little painted cottages.
It would be a short journey now in the boat to his father's fishing place and his own dear home in their snug tupek.
To the Swiss lad, weary, soaked, and chilled through, the rude but snug cabin with a fire blazing in the rough stone fireplace, promised a comfort that seemed almost heavenly.
On that trip he and his companion had come across an old and empty but snug log cabin that had been built by some hunting or trading party.
The two little children had been put to bed in a snug nest of blankets and robes underneath the cart.
But in the snug burrow, with the snow-banked sled to windward, they did not feel the wind at all.
They built two overnight shelters, one a lean-to against an abrupt cliff, the other a roof of poles over a snug hollow in the rocks.
Winter had set in in earnest, but Walter was used to cold winters and the Brabant cabin was snug and comfortable.
Thereafter I lay snug in the heart of calm while all the air for a hundred feet above my head was one stream of gust-driven water.
I had completed me a snug and secure shelter; and, as to provision, I had always on hand a six months' supply, preserved by salting and drying.
And as Benny looked again and again at the cross-over, he thought how nice she would look with it crossed over her chest, and how nice and snug and warm it would make her feel.
Could he sleep in his snug corner while his own little Nell was suffering amongst strangers?
The place they thought was very large, but everything felt so snug and warm that they almost wished they could stay there all night.
I'll find a snug place 'ere somewheres, where I ken wait till the Lord comes.
Say, you keep them black pelts snug away wi' other stuff o' value.
Everything had been madesnug for the night so they only had their own pleasure to consider.
Little blue egg, in the nest snug and warm, Covered so close from the wind and the storm, Guarded so carefully day after day, What is your use in this world now, pray?
Through all we lay snug and warm, and kept Christmas and drank the Emperor's health.
On the verge of the camp, near the river, where a snug farmhouse had once stood, rose four gaunt walls, blackened with smoke.
So, even when the thing was done, and the chain snug in my pocket, I did not for a while repent, but hugged myself on the jest and smiled under cover of the darkness.
Went to work in my own way; was a countryman just come into a snug bit of inheritance, looking out for a corner of land.
She remained on in her snugquarters at Hartledon, and lived in clover.
We must get him a snug berth; one that even the doctor won't object to, and set him straight in other matters.
Snug as his new berth promises to be, he would rather lose it than fail to deliver that letter.
All his life used to snug quarters in a fine ship's forecastle, with everything found for him, he has never before experienced the pang of having no place to lay his head.
I send it to keep company in your till with four others that have found their way into that snug place since morning, and which will be lonesome without their little friend.
