How To Use Hammock In A Sentence

Some of the crew went off-shift, stringing up hybrid bunks and hammocks belowdecks, the others continued working.
Now, gentlemen, standing up here before you, I feel a good deal like Pat, and maybe after Ive spieled along for a while, I may feel so darn small that Ill be able to crawl into a Pullman hammock with no trouble at all, at all! Chapter 14
The list goes something like this: 2 MP3 Players with batteries, 2 Grill Covers, 1 Hammock, 1 Grill Igniter with AA Battery, a bowl of brownie mix, carrots, brocoli, three or four dog beds, and a variety of other oddities. My Dog Ate the _________?
Thence in comparison to pricey couches, hammocks are more user-friendly.
The _sauba_ ants had cut nearly all the strings of Filippe's hammock; while he was resting peacefully on it the remainder of the strings broke, and he had a bad fall. Across Unknown South America

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For all I know, chicken dollhouse is at the ATM wearing a saliva hammock. MYANMAR GOVT NO RIKEY LAMBO
Maria said something about "muchacho" (which Charley knew was Spanish for boy) and pointed to the hammock. Gold Seekers of '49
Few pirates were in there, snoozing deeply in their bunks or hammocks.
It is also a great relief to finish with the life-belts & hammocks.
Between his babble and having to totter into the bushes every half-mile while the troop tactfully looked the other way, I was in poor trim by the time we reached Nuggur Ford, where they slung me a hammock in a makeshift hospital basha, and a native medical orderly filled me with jalap. Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
Some of the crew went off-shift, stringing up hybrid bunks and hammocks belowdecks, the others continued working.
From the low-beamed ceiling he unlashed a hammock and tied it to a truss by the fireplace wall.
There are hammocks slung outside some of the rooms in the outhouses and some share a kitchen - perfect for those wanting extra privacy.
During slow moments Grandmother wandered out in the long shirt and trousers we call a salwar kameez, threading her way between the sagging hammocks and chatting with the homesick soldiers missing the dishes of their own countries. The Hundred-Foot Journey
When we arrived at a grass-thatched hut at sundown, we'd string up our hammocks and spend the night.
What we had planned for the summer was a little light gardening followed by mimosas on the patio while the younger kids disported themselves on the swing set and the 13-year-old moped in the hammock. The Case Against Summer
There was, among the many, a hammock-shaped nest of the golden oriole, and igloo-shaped nest of some jungle specimen, a grass-at-all-angles nest of the ouzel, an eagle's nest spacious enough for Thor to hide in, and yes, a cuckoo's nest, which is to say the nest of any other bird the cuckoo finds handy. Another Roadside Attraction
Expect whitewashed walls, four-poster beds and hammocks for afternoon snoozing. Times, Sunday Times
The best place to stretch and take a nap is in the open, in the lap of nature on a hammock.
Come, I'll trate ye to a taste o 'me cavendish, which is better than growlin' in yer hammock at the muskaities, poor things, as don't know no better. The Pirate City An Algerine Tale
They chew hasheesh; cut themselves with poisoned creases; swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas; taste every poison; buy every secret; at Naples, they put St. Januarius blood in an alembic; they saw a hole into the head of the winking Virgin, to know why she winks; measure with an English footrule every cell of the Inquisition, every Turkish caaba, every Holy of holies; translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins; and measure their own strength by the terror they cause. VIII. English Traits. Character
Hammocks could not be slung in tents as small as hers, so a thin lumpy mattress and a pillow of piassava fiber had been dragged into place - both, Fern-o informed her, the property of Luis Quental himself. River Of Desire
I slept in a hammock in a half-open goat barn, which was nicer than it sounds.
She ducked beneath the foreboom to discover Apollo and Gerard standing at the port rail and Kevin lounging against the foremast shrouds as if they were a hammock. Thief Of Hearts
Chill by the pool on oversized sunbeds or grab a hammock in one of six tranquil gardens. Times, Sunday Times
The nose of the saddle has ripped off the steel tensioning piece at the rivets one still in the leather, another still visible in the tensioner, hence the hammocky shape to the back of the saddle. Making A Point: Paint, Sponges, and Determination
But at the foot of one steep cliff there was a narrow, bowlder-covered slope where it was possible to sling hammocks and cook; and a slanting spot was found for my cot, which had sagged until by this time it looked like a broken-backed centiped. IX. Down an Unknown River into the Equatorial Forest
Then a pile of beanbags in a corner on a big soft mat/matress thing, hung over with veils/semi transparent materials, like a tent! and one of those wall lamps for just the book, and soft/darkly lit for the rest. or a hammock instead of the beanbags, everything else the same (veils!): D Angels' Pawn is out! Psst...something cool in the post [Edited]
Pocket, who had been expelled from the company by common consent, went sulkily away towards her hammock, for she was the fairy of the calceolaria, and looked rather wicked. Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
Once more, in fancy, he was sailing up the mighty Amazon, shooting alligators on its banks, spearing fish in its waters, paddling through its curious gapo, and swinging in his hammock under its luxuriant forests. Martin Rattler
Swinging gently in my hammock, gazing out through the dappled veil of my mosquito net, I watch a magical scene.
There was no order among us — he that was captain today, was swabber tomorrow; and as for plunder — they say old Avery, and one or two close hunks, made money; but in my time, all went as it came; and reason good, for if a fellow had saved five dollars, his throat would have been cut in his hammock. Redgauntlet
The man-made structures are concealed by imaginative landscaping that includes coconut palms, hibiscus, cactuses, hammocks, bougainvillea, gardens and lawns opening to beach and sea.
Our first ‘camp’ was Eagle Island, which boasts 12 luxury canvas chalets, complete with air-conditioning and decked verandas with wicker chairs and hammocks.
When I clicked on the light in the smallest room, one of our inch-long guests, as if resting on the wrong side of a hammock, was hanging upside down on a very low-slung web between the wall and the base of the toilet.
Expect whitewashed walls, four-poster beds and hammocks for afternoon snoozing. Times, Sunday Times
They see the unlevel playing field created and sustained by a federal safety net that looks a lot like a hammock for the filthy rich. Dennis M. Kelleher: More Unconscionable Wall Street Whining
At the bottom end of it, between two of its pillars, was slung a hammock containing a shirtsleeved figure.
West 2: bamboo apartment, 12M2. 1 double bed, TV, toilet. exterior balcony has hammock, A/C and solar energy shower. Room rate: RMB200/night.
Expect whitewashed walls, four-poster beds and hammocks for afternoon snoozing. Times, Sunday Times
Four new buildings sit along on a pretty, sandy beach with many palm trees, lots of hammocks and chaises, a bar, and a full restaurant.
What you do is, you lie in a hammock suspended from the ceiling. Times, Sunday Times
Our balcony overlooked a quiet garden, in which a pool was surrounded by day beds and hammocks. Times, Sunday Times
Close to where I had hung my hammock, Rufino kindled a fire to toast coca while his son reduced cecropia leaves to ash and prepared the mortar and pestle. One River
Lucrezia swinging in a hammock in the centre of a large room, the four corners of which are occupied by four bedsteads containing four children, in the production of whom not exactly _four_ fathers, as they ought for perfect symmetry, but as a compromise _three_, have assisted. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
A pirate captain relaxes in a hammock, in this illustration from Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates (1921), which compiled a number of legends of piracy in the Caribbean. Happy Pirate Day | My[confined]Space
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The Pemon also make wooden dugout and bark canoes, paddles, and bows, and they weave hammocks and baby carriers.
Think no-frills wooden huts on stilts on the sand, complete with hammocks and mosquito nets and secured with a padlock. Times, Sunday Times
I try to take a break next door in one of Rusco garden furniture's comfy rope hammocks, but the saleslady sees I'm way too snug and turfs me out sharpish.
Tailor made for two, this Quick Dry single layer hammock is crafted of DuraCord fabric. French Word-A-Day:
Other handicraft items include hammocks, baskets, mats, embroidery, leatherwork, coral jewelry, and carved and painted gourds and dolls.
They have spent some rainy nights in friends' apartments, and occasionally hang their hammocks in the back room of a bicycle-repair workshop in Brooklyn where they volunteer as mechanics.
For me, the most fun part of climbing was bivouacking – getting up on a wall and sleeping in god-awful conditions, in hammocks, or just hanging from your ropes all night trying to sleep. '180° South: Conquerors of the Useless'
There is a mat on the floor, a hammock, and a few boxes and plastic bags filled with clothes.
The giant hammock is amazing but would never be allowed in the US. Maison 51, a Contemporary Compact Home in France
Think no-frills wooden huts on stilts on the sand, complete with hammocks and mosquito nets and secured with a padlock. Times, Sunday Times
Then again, maybe if I ask nicely, the boss will let me string a hammock under my desk.
She landed on her bed; it was the sort commonly called a "dangler"-- a two person hammock of strong but lightweight demi-silk, anchored to the ceiling at four points. Archive 2008-07-01
Outside is a gorgeous pool area with swaying hammocks, with activities from birdwatching to horse riding close by. Times, Sunday Times
While away the afternoon in a hammock, or play table tennis or badminton. Times, Sunday Times
Trees give me shade, coolth, and a place to anchor my hammock. What Is It About Treehuggers Anyway? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
I have frequently been carried for miles in a hammock by four natives and relays, through morassy districts too dangerous to travel on horseback. The Philippine Islands
He cursed the crew of the ship up and down for “ruining his retirement” and kept going on and on about how he could be “laying in a hammock drinking rum” instead of being “trapped on this goddamn rustbucket.” Thunder and Ashes
Handicraft articles include baskets, straw hats, net and saddle bags, hammocks, straw mats, gourds, woodcarvings, and masks.
When all hands were called, I rubbed my eyes in astonishment, for as I glanced out of the deadlight near which my hammock swung, I saw that we were under way and well out to sea. A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee"
Come night, when the party was due to return, she would spry up, trick herself out in something squashy, with the fashionable streamlike effect and a pretty pair of hammock stockings with white slippers, and become an animated porch wren. Ma Pettengill
Everyone else would sleep on the lower deck in hammocks that were strung from one side rail to the other side rail of the lower deck.
Speakers are relieved to find that they won't be sleeping in a hammock out on the porch, and that their hosts won't be barging in every half-hour to try and sell some more Amway products.
For me, relaxing in the hammock on our balcony was pure bliss. The Sun
We climbed the steep lane back to the Inn, pausing here along the way, and had a lovely lazy afternoon lolling on a hammock on the porch.
Just below is a hammock for lounging in and a kitchen tent with a gas hob and cooking equipment. Times, Sunday Times
As a volunteer sailor aboard a museum-quality replica of the Endeavour, I lived and worked like an eighteenth-century seaman: sleeping in a narrow hammock in the ship's hold alongside forty others, climbing the 127-foot main mast to furl sails in rolling seas, manning the helm in a hard blow. An Interview with Tony Horowitz, author of Blue Latitudes
I love the rope hammocks but I think the mesh would be even nicer.
Although the trees were technically on our property, the hammock belonged to my neighbors.
Diversions include everything from roping and riding to minicourses in Native American crafts, but some visitors do little except laze in a hammock, soak in a hot tub, or take a slow boat ride on nearby Blue Lake.
Hammock says he started analyzing this toxin in hopes of furthering the development of antivenins.
I set up my tent; Marvin and Frankie string their hammocks.
Filled with relief, I got out of the hammock to greet him.
Just below is a hammock for lounging in and a kitchen tent with a gas hob and cooking equipment. Times, Sunday Times
Build a comfy bed - a hammock just doesn't cut it. Times, Sunday Times
Afterwards they allowed us to sling our hammocks in one of their thatched shelters while they all went down to sleep on sandbanks by the river.
At night we sleep in hammocks strung between two trees on the bank, and keep our fire lit, to keep jaguars and other animals away.
In such areas it is not unusual for people to use hammocks rather than beds.
"In our study, we propose to evaluate whether the new field of metabolomics can be used to diagnose asthma and follow its treatment," Hammock said.
Hats, mats, hammocks, and baskets are made with different types of cane and reed as well as fibers from the maguey cactus.
I sat on my hammock, in my hut over the water, I read my books and I got eaten alive by mozzies.
When a person dies, he or she is wrapped in a hammock and buried in a lonely place in the jungle on the mainland.
Trunnion no sooner heard him mention the cause of her disorder, than his morosity recurring, he burst out into a violent fit of cursing, and forthwith betook himself again to his hammock, where he lay, uttering, in a low growling tone of voice, a repetition of oaths and imprecations, for the space of four-and-twenty hours, without ceasing. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
In the wards indigenous hammocks alternate with traditional hospital beds.
Jamaica supplied hammocks (an Arawak invention) and cotton cloth to Cuba and Haiti, and the Spaniards themselves had sailcloth made in Jamaica.
My bedroom was a spacious, polished wooden bungalow on stilts, complete with hammock and veranda. Times, Sunday Times
There's jungle, wildlife, ocean, hammocks, mezcal margaritas and lobster ceviche. Times, Sunday Times
Elyante lead them to the cabin, where hammocks hung and a little table was bolted down in the middle.
They chew hasheesh; cut themselves with poisoned creases; swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas; taste every poison; buy every secret; at Naples, they put St. Januarius's blood in an alembic; they saw a hole into the head of the "winking Virgin," to know why she winks; measure with an English footrule every cell of the Inquisition, every Turkish caaba, every Holy of holies; translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins; and measure their own strength by the terror they cause. English Traits (1856)
Stepping out of the hammock is a clearly satisfied Indian maiden. Elliott White Springs, Man After My Own Heart
Then again, maybe if I ask nicely, the boss will let me string a hammock under my desk.
I am beckoned by comfortable chairs on the veranda, then by the four-poster bed, then by the hammock strung across the corner, but know that if I settle down I may never get up in time to dive.
From the low-beamed ceiling he unlashed a hammock and tied it to a truss by the fireplace wall.
After lunch, we abandon our canoes and slog through knee-high water to Panther Mound, a raised piece of land, or hammock, thick with gumbo-limbo trees, loblollies, and strangler figs.
This combined area has the largest tracts of subtropical West Indian hardwood hammock in the United States.
Hats, mats, hammocks, and baskets are made with different types of cane and reed as well as fibers from the maguey cactus.
As the tropical winds lull you to sleep in that perfect hammock, remember the power of envy's evil eye. Times, Sunday Times
Embroidery and needlepoint make great hammocks.
I also agree with the above comments – the hammock is not only a different and creative take on the concept but it is a great, functional design. The 2009 Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Awards
It's a privilege to see them whittling tree limbs like mammoth pencils, then twisting them into the ground to prop up our hammocks and cook pots. Times, Sunday Times
All the rooms come with double hammocks and outdoor showers, and the pricier ones have plunge pools, too. Times, Sunday Times
A teapoy is usually a hammock slung on a pole carried on the shoulders of natives. An African Adventure
They now approached a boy who lay back in a hammock strung between two large maple trees.
Billy's hammock had been weighted with shot and his body was thrown into the sea.
What you do is, you lie in a hammock suspended from the ceiling. Times, Sunday Times
The leisure time of teenage boys is spent wandering in the forest, from house to house, and in hammock gossip.
It was much more agreeable than the one to Cuba, The transport was not crowded, the men had excellent hammocks, which could be rolled up during the day, thus leaving the whole berth deck for exercise and ventilation, and the Leona was a much better vessel than the Cherokee. History of the Gatling Gun Detachment
We may mention, to complete the inventory, a hammock suspended from two nails inserted in the wall, a three-legged garden chair, a candlestick adorned with its _bobeche_, and some other similar objects of elegant art. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
Sunbathing on the cute white sandy beach hugging the lagoon is slightly congested but pleasant, with hammocks strung among the palm trees.
He unbends his skinny frame from a nylon hammock and gives me a handshake more bone than flesh.
It is a place to escape to for days spent loafing in hammocks, meandering among the coconut palms in the garden or idling through pulp novels on the patio, all the time lulled by the pounding surf and the relentless whoosh of the trade winds.
This striped and fringed hammock has something of the Southern belle about it. Times, Sunday Times
To our left we have a small unassuming backie-type vehicle, which in partnership with a nearby tree suspends two hammocks and their inhabitants. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
When we arrived at a grass-thatched hut at sundown, we'd string up our hammocks and spend the night.
There's a self-serve honour bar, a grill, a porch swing, hammocks and laundry facilities, with a horseshoe pit below. Times, Sunday Times
So row't his hurdies in a hammock, [rolled, buttocks] Robert Burns How To Know Him
` ` ` Now, gentlemen, standing up here before you, I feel a good deal like Pat, and maybe after I've spieled along for a while, I may feel so darn small that I'll be able to crawl into a Pullman hammock with no trouble at all, at all! Babbitt
Another popular style of the 30s and 40s was the snood, which is sort of like a hammock for your hair worn at the back of your neck. Popular Hairstyles of the 20th Century
Diversions include everything from roping and riding to minicourses in Native American crafts, but some visitors do little except laze in a hammock, soak in a hot tub, or take a slow boat ride on nearby Blue Lake.
Baskets, mats, and hammocks are woven from plant fibers such as henequen.
For me, relaxing in the hammock on our balcony was pure bliss. The Sun
Expect whitewashed walls, four-poster beds and hammocks for afternoon snoozing. Times, Sunday Times
While away the afternoon in a hammock, or play table tennis or badminton. Times, Sunday Times
Other handicraft items include hammocks, baskets, mats, embroidery, leatherwork, coral jewelry, and carved and painted gourds and dolls.
I have sometimes been with the swinging hammock the native mother prepares for her sick infant – apparently so much easier than aught we have in our more civilized homes; easier for the child, because it gets the motion without the least jar; and easier for the nurse, because the hammock is strung so high as to supersede the necessity of stooping. Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828
They tend to remain slumped in a hammock slung between two cork trees, laid out on a bamboo sunbed under a young olive, or lounging on the luminous green strip of lawn that encircles the pool.
A string hammock, citronella candles, a hiking staff, bug spray and face net, sunscreen, sunglasses and bathing suit reminded them of the warm climate she was used to, and suddenly they felt colder for it.
On a transparent blue expanse, a swaddled figure lies in a passive curve, suspended in a heavenly hammock of spidery filaments, surrendered to the life of the mind.
Women in rural areas are well known for their macramé hammocks and bags.
They could not be got upon deck in the night, or if by dint of the rope's-end they were at length routed out of their hammocks, they immediately developed the worst symptoms of the "waister" -- seasickness and fear of that which is high. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
Date spots: Matheson Hammock Marina, Just theFunny Theater, Swap Shop Drive-In movie theater, Miami Seaquarium ... and ofcourse, long walks on the beach!
The decor is something to behold, too: a mix of brightly coloured, ultracool bed-seats and hammocks. Times, Sunday Times
Donder en bliksem, dat is bad," exclaimed the Dutchman, tumbling out of his hammock and putting on his coat and shoes. Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs A Tale of Land and Sea
I looked up and saw a man sitting in a hammock that was strung across the ceiling.
Think no-frills wooden huts on stilts on the sand, complete with hammocks and mosquito nets and secured with a padlock. Times, Sunday Times
The mood is one of hope, lambent optimism for the future, and the streets are busy: wares, from hammocks to human hair brushes to hawksbill turtle shells, are being hawked with zest; horse-drawn buggies spindle in and about the cobblestone streets; children are skylarking in the alleys. Richard Bangs: Nic' of Time
From the top of the pyramidal main lodge, stargaze from a hammock. Canada.com
I asked if there were any casitas available - two years ago we'd stayed in this wonderful little hut whose rooms were twice the size of the average rooms, had a big fan, a safe, a huge bathroom and a balcony with a hammock.
Chill by the pool on oversized sunbeds or grab a hammock in one of six tranquil gardens. Times, Sunday Times
If you have a couple of large trees, you can sling a hammock between them - a lovely thing to lie in and watch the leaves and the sky.
Inside it's designed as the cabin of a ship: the bunks used to be hammocks and, even when they changed to something more solid, they were famous for having three tiers.
Each has a balcony, complete with wicker chairs and a hammock - many guests choose to sleep in the latter.
Before, I always slung my hammock and undressed before getting into it, but after it I never slung it nor undressed when the ship was at sea.
Immediately upon hearing this I called the hammock-bearers together, and going down to the beach, I went a considerable way along it toward Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners)
Guests staying in the courtyard also enjoy a private sundeck with sun beds and hammocks.
This striped and fringed hammock has something of the Southern belle about it. Times, Sunday Times
A long, green swath of wilderness beckoned, and I eagerly began working my way through a tangle of muscadine vines and palmetto, beneath a hammock of arching live oaks.
I had sprung out of my hammock, and had seized my firelock, and was standing on the ground, saying the words myself. The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
She glanced over at the hammock swinging in the wind and sat down in it, rocking slightly.
For the modern Cuna, it provides fibers for making clothing, brooms, threads for sewing and weaving, lamp wicks, rope, and hammocks.
It's a privilege to see them whittling tree limbs like mammoth pencils, then twisting them into the ground to prop up our hammocks and cook pots. Times, Sunday Times
‘They are hoping to renovate the venue and make it something spectacular, with hammocks and masseurs on hand’.
My bedroom was a spacious, polished wooden bungalow on stilts, complete with hammock and veranda. Times, Sunday Times
Rated best maintenance free hammock and with a weight capacity of 450 lbs, this hammock is perfect by the pool or for a waterfront property. French Word-A-Day:
Peering through windows offered a glimpse of how the real Mexicans live, and unearthed the interesting fact that here beds are a rarity, rope hammocks the norm.
Bed is a fisherman's net made into a hammock and lined with sheepskin rugs. The Sun
Sailors were piped to their hammocks around 8:00PM every night
You stay in rustic bungalows or log cabins, all hidden in tropical gardens that are dotted with hammocks. Times, Sunday Times
In his hands he held a well-worn drawing in crayon of two stick people lying in a hammock. BRUSH STROKES • by Ruth Schiffmann
You stay in rustic bungalows or log cabins, all hidden in tropical gardens that are dotted with hammocks. Times, Sunday Times
He shows me his work, telling me it takes half a day to make a hammock, though his fingers are not as nimble as they were.
As there were many experiments, many of them had to sleep in hammocks or cots instead of regular beds.
I just don't have anywhere to hang a cat hammock, so my kitty will just have to make do with all her other many many many many MANY resting places.
Some say it is because the natives who get their living by hammock-carrying poison them, others say the tsetse fly finishes them off; and others, and these I believe are right, say that entozoa are the cause. Travels in West Africa
We were berthed in the forward hold in tiers of hammocks.
For me, relaxing in the hammock on our balcony was pure bliss. The Sun
Your team logo is a guy asleep in a hammock.
Think no-frills wooden huts on stilts on the sand, complete with hammocks and mosquito nets and secured with a padlock. Times, Sunday Times
Even though the land is reclaimed, you will pass through many habitat types such as pastures, mixed forests, pine flatwoods, oak and hydric hammocks, scrub, and bottomland, swamp forests.
The most arduous activity I witness is a guest swinging in the enormous fishing net hammock before dozing off. Times, Sunday Times
Colorful hammocks are woven from fine cotton string.
At last their violence so roused the sleepy alcalde, that he positively threw himself from his hammock, laid down his cigarito, and gave such very determined orders to his soldiers that he succeeded in checking the riot. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Little William was, perhaps, dreaming of his English, and Lilly Lalee of her African, home; while the sailor, in all probability, was fancying himself safely "stowed" in the forecastle of a British frigate, with all sail rightly set, and a couple of hundred jolly Jacks like himself stretched out in their "bunks" or swinging in their hammocks around him. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
He rented a nice four-room cottage there, with an icebox out on the back porch and a hammock in the front yard, and begun to paper and paint and grain and kalsomine and made good money from the start. Somewhere in Red Gap
Think no-frills wooden huts on stilts on the sand, complete with hammocks and mosquito nets and secured with a padlock. Times, Sunday Times
We also slept in hammocks, stood lookout watch at the end of the jibboom and furled topgallant sails during beautiful evening sunsets.
Working in a hammock is every bit as good as it sounds (at least for the first hour or two). Wolfram Blog : Work in the Land of Lakes and Volcanoes (Trabajo en la Tierra de Lagos y Volcanes)
Each has a balcony, complete with wicker chairs and a hammock - many guests choose to sleep in the latter.
A hammock slung between two coconut palms moved gently in time to the sound of the ukulele-playing occupant.
She met me on the porch, and made me sit with my back to the window, which was open, while she faced me, sitting in the hammock where the house lights fell fairly upon her and I could get the full benefit of the honeying eyes and baby lips as she talked. Branded
Other handicraft items include hammocks, baskets, mats, embroidery, leatherwork, coral jewelry, and carved and painted gourds and dolls.
Tim sat upright at the penetrating noise and flipped in his hammock.
It looked just like a sailor's hammock made out of toilet paper, cotton wool and string.
We talk about natural childbirth and child spacing, swaddling, using cradleboards and hammocks, and carrying your baby.
As the tropical winds lull you to sleep in that perfect hammock, remember the power of envy's evil eye. Times, Sunday Times
He hung a hammock in a museum garden, photographed breath misting a piano lid, and once rolled a man-sized ball of Plasticine through the streets of New York. This week's new exhibitions
Originally hammocks were made from the bark of the hamack tree, later from the sisal plant whose fibres could be softened and woven.
The back yard hammock is so more enjoyable when the next-door neighbour isn't blasting guitar-rock. Minor Observations
My own choice would include a game of boules, their magnificent double hammock and their linen lavender eye pillow to soothe away tension while lying in said hammock.
This expansive ‘river’ covered almost 11,000 square miles, creating a mosaic of ponds, sloughs, sawgrass, marshes, hardwood hammocks, and forested uplands.
The Pemon also make wooden dugout and bark canoes, paddles, and bows, and they weave hammocks and baby carriers.
Wouldn't she prefer to be sipping a piña colada on a hammock? Times, Sunday Times
Some say it is because the natives who get their living by hammock - carrying poison them, others say the tsetse fly finishes them off; and others, and these I believe are right, say that entozoa are the cause. Travels in West Africa

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