The effect was almost instantaneous.

He dropped the tumbler, lurched towards the woman at the door, and then making a half-turn in accordance with the motion of the vessel, fell into his bunk, and snored like a grampus.
Sarah Purfoy watched him for a few minutes, and then having blown out the light, stepped out of the cabin, and closed the door behind her.

The dusky gloom which had held the deck on the previous night enveloped all forward of the main-mast.

A lantern swung in the forecastle, and swayed with the motion of the ship.

The light at the prison door threw a glow through the open hatch, and in the cuddy, at her right hand, the usual row of oil-lamps burned.