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bunk

A built-in, usually narrow, bed.
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She saw only a man sitting on the edge of the bunk and incuriously studying the toes of his moccasins.
"Hairpins," she replied, passing on and rummaging in a clothes-bag on the bunk.
Without a turn of head or roll of eye, aristocratically positing their non-existingness to their faces, he trotted for'ard along the cabin floor and into the stateroom where Skipper babbled maniacally in the bunk.
Skipper did not recognize him, even when he sprang into the bunk, walked across Skipper's heaving chest, and licked the acrid sweat of fever from Skipper's face.
As I sat in my bunk examining it (the six hunters were all in the steerage, smoking and talking in loud voices), Henderson took a passing glance at it.
For the most part, the remaining four hunters leaned on the table or lay in their bunks and left the discussion to the two antagonists.
There was a grunt from Weedon Scott's bunk, and a stir of blankets.
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Then the harpooner faded away into his bunk, and I was left alone, unthrown, on the field of battle.
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He looked sharply round the bunks in the tossing light of the lantern; and then, walking straight up to me, he addressed me, to my surprise, in tones of kindness.
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In the early days of the following spring a party of miners on their way to new diggings passed along the Gulch, and straying through the deserted shanties found in one of them the body of Hiram Beeson, stretched upon a bunk, with a bullet hole through the heart.
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It was necessary to have dry wood to keep the steam up to the adequate pressure, and on that day the poop, cabins, bunks, and the spare deck were sacrificed.
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"Is n't there milk?" said Harvey, looking round the dark double tier of bunks as if he expected to find a cow there.
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