It is by reason of this
cosy blanketing of his body, that the whale is enabled to keep himself comfortable in all weathers, in all seas, times, and tides.
He never used the cosy chambers which the Reform provides for its favoured members.
A rap at this moment sounded on the door of the cosy apartment where Phileas Fogg was seated, and James Forster, the dismissed servant, appeared.
In the meantime the wood had been alive with the sound of axes; almost everything needed for a
cosy dwelling already lay at Wendy's feet.
Nothing would have pleased him more than to sit on in the
cosy, shabby restaurant, but he knew that Mildred wanted entertainment.
The two lime merchants, with their escort, entered the dominions of Miss Abbey Potterson, to whom their escort (presenting them and their pretended business over the half-door of the bar, in a confidential way) preferred his figurative request that 'a mouthful of fire' might be lighted in
Cosy. Always well disposed to assist the constituted authorities, Miss Abbey bade Bob Gliddery attend the gentlemen to that retreat, and promptly enliven it with fire and gaslight.
Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg --a
cosy, loving pair.
When night came I slept sweetly in a
cosy nook, though the remembrance that I was alone in a strange land made me sometimes start up and look around me in alarm, and then I wished heartily that I had stayed at home at ease.
In the twilight he had a good lounge on the sofa, and Polly sung to him, which arrangement he particularly enjoyed, it was so "
cosy and homey." At nine o'clock, Polly packed his bag with clean clothes, nicely mended, such remnants of the festive tea as were transportable, and kissed him "good-night," with many injunctions to muffle up his throat going over the bridge, and be sure that his feet were dry and warm when he went to bed.
Began to talk about Delilahs and Jezebels and Fools-there-was and the rest of it, and what a mug a feller was to let a female into 'is
cosy home, who'd only make him spend his days hooking her up, and his nights wondering how to get back the blankets without waking her.
"Oh, la!" replied the oak bitingly, "how deliciously
cosy it is to stand here buttoned to the neck and watch you poor naked creatures shivering!"
"Behind her was a dim room scantly illumined by the one small candle that had guided us through the storm; but the old Waterloo stove was colouring the gloom with tremulous, rose-red whorls of light, and warm and
cosy indeed seemed Peg's retreat to us snow- covered, frost-chilled, benighted wanderers.