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Example sentences for "cabins"

Lexicographically close words:
cabined; cabinet; cabinetmaker; cabinetmakers; cabinets; cable; cabled; cablegram; cablegrams; cables
  1. From the mud cabins of Ireland, from the dark and miry mines, from the thronged streets of the city, and the crowded workshops all over the kingdom, there was a clamorous cry ascending for liberty and equality.

  2. His book is equally adapted to the modest farm-houses of New England, and the log-cabins of the Western Prairie.

  3. At many of the depots there is a general rush for the last car, for the same reason that there is a scramble for the stern cabins in a steamer,--viz.

  4. Below, in addition to the close overpowering odour of cabins without any ventilation, the smell of the bilge-water was sufficient in itself to produce nausea.

  5. Washington had chosen Valley Forge for his winter quarters and there a fortified camp was constructed and rude cabins erected to house the men.

  6. The clearings and log cabins became less and less frequent until he finally reached the wilderness, which was penetrated only by the hunter and trader.

  7. But the most remarkable thing about it was the odd way in which these quaint little cabins showed themselves.

  8. These ran from the passengers' cabins to the steward's cabin, and the electrician had just been fixing them, carelessly leaving the doors unfastened.

  9. First one bell, then another would ring, and always when the waiters went to those cabins they were told that nothing was wanted and were abused for waking people up.

  10. One of the cabins contained a chest full of gold, which fell into the thick mud which forms the bottom of the port of Marseilles.

  11. The ocean was, for the ten days occupied on the passage, almost literally as calm as a lake; even the lady passengers emerged from their cabins two or three days before they would otherwise have ventured forth.

  12. They cooked at the cabins for their own families.

  13. Good, substantial, well constructed and warm cabins were built in which to house the slaves, much better buildings "Uncle Dock" says than those in which the average Negro sharecropper lives today on Southern cotton plantations.

  14. We had dances in the cabins every once in a while.

  15. In some cabins by the road-side they first saw some wounded men, to whom they paused to administer words of cheer, and a "cup of cold water.

  16. The lower deck was in complete darkness, and he passed the range of cabins and silently ascended the steps to the deck above.

  17. I wonder if there are other cabins on this island?

  18. Cabins with fireplaces, easy chairs, blankets, and things to eat.

  19. There appeared to be a number of small cabins grouped around a larger central one.

  20. Half hidden by the lesser growth of birch and balsam, the cabins stood.

  21. During our hasty talk the old man said the Home Guards often visited the cabins of the black people in the night, in search of runaways and conscripts.

  22. In most cases the cabins stood in clusters in the vicinity of the residence of the proprietor of the plantation on which they are situated.

  23. The cabins of the black people were built of logs, having but a single room on the ground floor, and sometimes there was a loft made, boards being thrown over the ceiling joists, covering half the room, more or less.

  24. The Thanksgiving season brought to mind the other early settlers of America, and these, too, were represented by clothes-pin men and women, while the rude cabins of our forefathers were represented by corn cob cabins chinked with mud.

  25. Srinagar when we emerged from our cosy cabins into a world of clean air and brilliant colour.

  26. The night was cold, so several of the ladies, following an evil custom, sent forth from their cabins those vile inventions called hot bottles.

  27. It was a captured blockade-runner, built up with two stories of cabins and staterooms for passengers.

  28. Elated with this success, they proceeded to Fort Wallace, that poor little group of log huts and mud cabins having apparently no power of resistance.

  29. The cabins that we passed on the first day discouraged us.

  30. It was like the cabins of the 'poor white trash' in the forest, only larger.

  31. The men and women slouched and skulked around the cabins out of sight, and every sign of abject, loathsome poverty was visible, even in the gaunt and famished pigs that rooted around the doorway.

  32. One of the small incidents out of which we invariably extracted fun, was our march at dawn past the cabins of the few inhabitants.

  33. The road encircled the fort, then ran west through a roughly cultivated country, dotted with cabins of logs plastered over with blue clay.

  34. The cabins usually have two rooms, many having been partitioned to make the second.

  35. The cabins are often for two families and each has a plot of ground for a garden.

  36. The cabins are not scattered as in the cotton country, but are usually ranged on either side of a broad street, with rows of trees in front.

  37. Corn, cotton and, in a few districts, rice or tobacco were the staple crops, although each plantation raised its own fruit and vegetables, and about the cabins in the quarters were little plots for gardens.

  38. This is the hill of fare of most of the cabins on the plantations of the 'black belt' three times a day during the year.

  39. The cabins seldom have glass windows, but instead wooden shutters, which swing outward on hinges.

  40. The floors are rough and not always of matched lumber, while the cabins are poorly built.

  41. In the cabins the great catalogs of the mail order houses of Montgomery Ward & Co.

  42. Its cabins occupied its axis, with a sort of bridge deck above, and the gas-chambers gave the whole affair the shape of a gipsy's hooped tent, except that it was much flatter.

  43. There was a steel axis to the whole affair, a central backbone which terminated in the engine and propeller, and the men and magazines were forward in a series of cabins under the expanded headlike forepart.

  44. The cabins under the heads of the airships were being lit up; doors opened in them, and revealed padded passages.

  45. All together they cleared three considerable chunks of wreckage, and then Bert was glad to clamber up into the cabins again and give place to a second squad.

  46. He stared at the shattered cabins of the Hohenzollern and its widow's garment of dishevelled silk for a time, but without any idea of its containing any living thing; it was all so twisted and smashed and entirely upside down.

  47. He was inspired by the idea that his antagonists might be in the wreckage of the Hohenzollern cabins that was jammed against Green Island.

  48. On the deck were three houses, whose compartments were used as cabins for the crew, or as machine rooms.

  49. All these cabins were lighted by port-holes filled with toughened glass, which has ten times the resistance of ordinary glass.

  50. Caught off guard the boys were tossed against the doors of their cabins and bruised badly by the impact.

  51. The main salon still was deserted, and the doors to the cabins of "Black George" and Matt Murphy still closed.

  52. It's impossible for us to continue, if for no other reason than that there is no room for us aboard, and so, Frank, you radio Inspector Burton to get us some clothes and cabins aboard the Bear.

  53. In addition to the two cabins opening from one side of the salon and which they occupied, two others were similarly located opposite.

  54. The doors to the cabins they had occupied were locked.

  55. Our cabins are on the port side and the sun from the east is in our portholes.

  56. How lonely those cabins looked and how desolate the life they suggested to her now--NOW!

  57. Thatched cabins were then erected at the prow and stern for the accommodation of the crews, and the wreck was placed in the best possible state of defence.

  58. The natives of this vicinity built their cabins in trees, on stakes or poles laid from one branch to another.

  59. They lived in the log cabins in the winter, but in the summer they took to their tents.

  60. While at Fort Pitt we had cabins on board the very elegant vessel "North West.

  61. They were to go to their cabins in an orderly manner, and any disturbance would be reported.

  62. You can't 'member how de joy went roun' in all de cabins when young mas'r had a son born to be de heir.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cabins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.