We were all dressed alike: broad slouch hats, to keep the sun off; gray knapsacks; blue army shirts; blue overalls; leathern gaiters buttoned tight from knee down to ankle; high-quarter coarse shoes
snugly laced.
It was quite late in the evening when the little Moss came
snugly to anchor, and Queequeg and I went ashore; so we could attend to no business that day, at least none but a supper and a bed.
Not indeed that I can hope to put into words the charm of those embowered cottages, like nests in the armpits of great trees, tucked
snugly in the hollows of those narrow, winding, almost subterranean lanes which burrow their way beneath the warm-hearted Surrey woodlands.
Phileas Fogg,
snugly ensconced in his corner, did not open his lips.
At the same moment the bird fluttered down upon the hat and once more sat
snugly on her eggs.
For example, --after a weary and perilous chase and capture of a whale, the body may get loose from the ship by reason of a violent storm; and drifting far away to leeward, be retaken by a second whaler, who, in a calm,
snugly tows it alongside, without risk of life or line.
The men curled into depressions and fitted them- selves
snugly behind whatever would frustrate a bullet.
All looked extremely clean and glittering, but the general effect would have been somewhat chilling had not a second large pair of folding-doors, standing wide open, and disclosing another and smaller salon, more
snugly furnished, offered some relief to the eye.
MacConnell took her hand and tucked it
snugly under his arm.
Even when
snugly seated by his own fireside, with Mrs Varden opposite in a nightcap and night-jacket, and Dolly beside him (in a most distracting dishabille) curling her hair, and smiling as if she had never cried in all her life and never could-- even then, with Toby at his elbow and his pipe in his mouth, and Miggs (but that perhaps was not much) falling asleep in the background, he could not quite discard his wonder and uneasiness.
I went softly down to the kitchen which, tucked away so
snugly underground, always seemed to me the heart and centre of the house.
The flag had been struck, and the gun had been fired, at the right moment of time, and I felt as
snugly cut off from the rest of Walworth as if the moat were thirty feet wide by as many deep.