“There were two fat cats abask on the stone seat, one each side of Brother Boniface.”
“I thought it a singular circumstance, as I sat watching the boat approach, from the top of the wood-pile, where I was perched abask in the sun.”
“We feasted and we lay abask in the sunshine of a jolly, idle life all these luxurious months, drinking scorn and confusion amid our nightly flagons to remote care.”