cabin
/ˈkæbɪn/ verb C2- To place in a cabin or other small space.
- To limit the scope of.
He/she/it cabins · Past cabined · Past participle cabined · -ing form cabining
Verb forms
- Base form
- cabin
- He/she/it
- cabins
- Past
- cabined
- Past participle
- cabined
- -ing form
- cabining
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‘Ah,’ said I, after four hours’ work, ‘since we are sinking, let us sink; we can die but once.’ ‘Is that the example you set, Penelon?’ cries the captain; ‘very well, wait a minute.’ He went into his cabin and came back with a brace of pistols.
This proof of his guilt may be procured by his immediate arrest, as the letter will be found either about his person, at his father’s residence, or in his cabin on board the Pharaon.’”
The delighted builder then offered his services in providing a suitable crew for the little vessel, but this Dantès declined with many thanks, saying he was accustomed to cruise about quite alone, and his principal pleasure consisted in managing his yacht himself; the only thing the builder could oblige him in would be to contrive a sort of secret closet in the cabin at his bed’s head, the closet to contain three divisions, so constructed as to be concealed from all but himself.
Danglars, coming out of his cabin, who will furnish you with every particular.
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