Apart from guard-duties and patrols there were constant night-alarms and stand--to's, and in any case you can't sleep properly in a beastly hole in the ground with your feet aching with the cold.

On our second day at the Spa, I was sauntering with her down the chief street--'a beastly little hole, my dear; not a decent shop where one can buy a reel of thread or a yard of tape in the place!'

I came to in this beastly hole,' he said.

The cover was off, with no one near by, and the whole of my crew just missed going heels over head into that beastly hole.

"Why a man should come to the Solomons--beastly hole," the mate complained.

"Yes, beastly cold, sunless hole; it kills every bit of a plant you put in, and the kitchen chokes them to death."

You know the beastly hole it is.

Conrad became angry with him, calling Muntok 'a beastly hole'.

My heart sank as I contemplated it and the niches, and most heartily did I wish myself anywhere else than in that beastly hole.

Some beastly hole of the Orcs, I'll warrant, with a hundred years of their filth in it.