| 单词 | tumble-down |
| 例句 | As the Japanese know, there is much unnoticed beauty in wabi-sabi — the old, the worn, the tumble-down, those things beginning their transformation into something else. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z From the water, San Juan del Sur looked much the way Twain described it: “A few tumble-down frame shanties — they call them hotels — nestling among green verdure and overshadowed by picturesque little hills.” | Latin America Issue: Twain?s Nicaragua, 144 Years Later 2010-09-17T16:03:00Z "Grey Gardens" is based on the 1975 documentary film by Albert and David Maysles about two eccentric women living in a tumble-down Long Island mansion. 'Grey Gardens' replaces 'Titanic' in the Ahmanson's current season 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z And on "The Pearl," the drums sound as if they're echoing from somewhere miles down a desert highway, beyond tumble-down shacks and dried-up oil wells. Review: 'The Veils' dabble in desert rock beauty 2013-04-23T18:46:08Z The actual Los Angeles was a fly-ridden settlement of tumble-down adobes, packs of feral dogs and one of the nation’s highest murder rates. L.A.’s love of sprawl made it America's most overcrowded place. Poor people pay a deadly price 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Some peddled their pills near tumble-down storefronts and on blighted street corners in addiction-plagued parts of Allegheny County, where deaths by drug overdose reached record levels last year. Armed with new data, officials target ‘drug-dealing’ doctors 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z The city's High Street was a dirt road then, with tumble-down thatched cottages on one side and hoardings on the other. Who inspired Roald Dahl's Mrs Pratchett character? - BBC News 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z There, the tumble-down shanties would contrast with the cherry blossoms along the Potomac. Black history: AP reporter’s new memoir recalls covering MLK 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Police halt vehicles at checkpoints in the tumble-down streets to check temperatures, while posters proclaim in the local Krio language: "Togeda we go stop ebola." On Ebola front line, first glimpse of end to epidemic 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z In the tumble-down shack in Acailandia, where he lives with his wife and children, his wife sighs. On the road with the slavery hunters 2013-12-24T08:48:48Z It's dank and the stairwell lights often don't work at night, but it's still a vast improvement over their crumbling brick home in a tumble-down neighbourhood where monsoon rains flooded the rooms. How life has changed for Delhi rape victim's family 2013-12-16T00:05:51Z With mock-stone cottages, tumble-down mills, churches, bridges and viaducts, as well as landscape sold on canvas rolls, painted with fields, streams and roads, Hornby conceived an entire world in miniature. Frank Hornby: the man who put the world in a box 2013-05-15T12:42:45Z This is not a tumble-down slum for "just arrived" rural migrants, as some reports have suggested, the soil of the fields still under their nails. India looks within itself for answers 2013-01-06T00:38:24Z "One of our methods is to get lost for a day, go down country roads and suddenly find fantastic vistas or a tumble-down old mill we can use." Behind the scenes on Game of Thrones 2012-07-17T19:25:24Z It is a small, tumble-down hamlet remote from any highroad, the confluence of four deserted by-ways leading to other hamlets upon the wooded downland of which Green Lanes was the highest point. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z The swains whom Shiver-the-Frills allowed to visit his tumble-down mansion paid court to her instead of to her sisters. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z You think a lot of your old tumble-down castle; but the town boys have got it in spite of you; and what's more, they've a flag flying on it with 'Down with Smith!' on it. The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith 2012-04-03T02:00:29.527Z The tumble-down hut in which Bill lay was thirty yards nearer to the gate. Settlers and Scouts 2012-03-17T02:01:06.297Z Even among the deserted hearthstones and tumble-down chimneys the striped leaves ran up among the roofless walls. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z At Indianapolis she changed from the great express into a smaller train that deposited her at a railway station consisting of a tumble-down shed. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z We pushed open the tumble-down gate and squeezed through. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z I lay down on the ground, in high grass, under apple trees which were near a tumble-down stone wall. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z The doctor entered an old tumble-down house, and groped his way up the slippery dark stairs as high as he could go. Vagaries 2012-02-17T03:00:27.693Z Her nurse's shebeen--a tumble-down festering hostelry thatched with decaying straw--was no better than a dog-boy's boozing ken, a disgraceful trysting-place for drunken soldiers, who were enticed thither by its excellent poteen. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z I enjoyed the outing, as everything was absolutely unique, carriages, costumes, carts, people, language, houses, a poor tumble-down little hovel next to a great palace with gates and courts and gardens. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z And so, in this curious old town of tiles, The proud French quarter of days long gone, In castles of Spain and tumble-down piles These wonderful ladies live on and on. Songs of the Mexican Seas 2012-02-06T03:00:16.913Z The Kenways had lived among poor people themselves and knew how hard it was to keep an old tumble-down tenement in nice order. The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did 2012-02-03T03:00:26.090Z This dirty stone-built and tumble-down village the four nuns entered at eight o'clock, when darkness covered its ugliness, but greatly increased its dangers. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z It was the last house on the left-hand side of the way, a crazy, tumble-down old place abutting on the river. Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z They came out by Betsy Owen's cottage—a little low, whitewashed, tumble-down building, standing in the midst of a neglected garden, with a very forlorn and deserted air about it. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z It is a tumble-down little place, with about one hundred inhabitants, half of whom appeared to be engaged in fishing. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z It was a crazy tumble-down old house abutting, of course, on the river, and literally overrun with rats. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z It was an old building, tumble-down, damp, and gloomy. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z Birket Foster joined us one day, and Tennyson asked him to define the word “picturesque,” and to say why tumble-down cottages in the Isle of Wight were such favourite subjects with painters. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z In one of the tumble-down rooms I found a rag doll beside the cold hearth, and some poor toys on a shelf under a broken window. A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories 2011-12-23T03:00:10.057Z The town is a tumble-down sort of place, inhabited chiefly by Arabs, who ply rafts with merchandise between Mosul and Baghdad. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z Why, I live in a tumble-down old house with a monkey and a soldier for my household, so you may judge that I have got used to the discomforts of the North.' A Witch of the Hills, v. 1-2 2011-12-15T03:00:15.700Z He hesitated; made up his mind, and, turning down it, came to a crooked house over a low tumble-down doorway. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z What do you do at that tumble-down old red-brick house on the Cobham road? A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z There were three solitary-looking, tumble-down cottages on one side of the road, and presently the door of one of them opened, and a woman's voice called out: "Come, Yvette, come, go out and play." The Diamond Fairy Book 2011-11-14T03:00:18.297Z There was a wood fire burning up a tumble-down chimney in the middle, and they fetched me a little three-legged stool to sit on. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z On the southern shore of this lake is a picturesque Ainu village, with its old tumble-down huts, and close to it is a group of Japanese houses. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z As they went up the tumble-down steps to the porch, two pairs of eyes were bent on the blue horizon. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z Six miles finished.—We get out at a tumble-down roadside inn. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 62, January 1, 1872 2011-10-18T02:00:20.750Z "And there's an owl sitting up in that old tumble-down tower—how natural he blinks!" Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z At last we arrived at a collection of tumble-down deserted huts, built of the stones lying round, and hardly distinguishable from the rest of the country until we were actually amongst them. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z "Not this tumble-down shanty, surely?" she said to the omnibus driver when he stopped before the gate of the farm-house. Jessie Graham 2011-09-21T02:00:30.653Z The Watson place was an old-fashioned tumble-down buildin' with a big open lower floor and two or three rooms overhead. The Postmaster 2011-09-21T02:00:28.863Z In the deep shadow cast by the wall of an old and tumble-down barn near the cross-roads at Niddry, about three miles from Edinburgh, two Russian infantry officers were in earnest conversation. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z "Your papa will not approve of your doing this," observed Mrs. Atmore: "you know, he says that abbeys are nothing but old tumble-down churches." Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z The ant guided them to a group of tumble-down houses and showed them a pit which the brothers entered. Bluebeard 2011-09-19T02:00:13.657Z They ranged from an Italian Prince, with a time-worn title and a moth-eaten tumble-down palace, to an English millionaire of recent vintage. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z At last they gained the tumble-down gate of the township, splashed to the shoulders and panting and sweating. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z A thousand tumble-down nipa shacks, a crumbling church, musty mountains to the east, not a white man within thirty miles, and the natives themselves away below the average—on the edge of savagery. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z There’s lots of room, but there’s a tumble-down old grape-arbor right in the middle.” The Turner Twins 2011-08-28T02:00:36.990Z There was a little paddock-garden at the back of the Station, rather tumble-down, with two sheep in it. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z The town itself is not attractive; one long, narrow lane-like street, lined on each side by habitations neither imposing nor of a tumble-down picturesqueness, borders the Loire. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z But at length the great field ceased; and he came out suddenly on to a rutted roadway and saw in the distance a tumble-down little red building. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z The Maestro went to the tumble-down nipa shack by the river. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z When you have lost your way, any asylum is grateful, however desolate and tumble-down. Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories 2011-08-25T02:00:30.323Z Mr. Unwin dead, the poet and the widow moved to Olney, where they lived together for nineteen years in a tumble-down house, and on very slender means. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z All the chief features have disappeared, and to-day it is but a scrappy collection of tumble-down buildings devoted to all manner of purposes. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z However, I lariated my horse and threw down my blankets in this tumble-down shack, and turned in. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z It proved to be a tumble-down shed standing back from the road some five or six yards. Four Afloat Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water 2011-08-11T02:00:15.547Z Cremieux and I presently stood at the top of a rough and tumble-down flight of steps which led to a pier in somewhat better condition. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z The Temples, possibly to avoid him, had made straight for the iron gate of the churchyard, and stood outside the wall, waiting for the tumble-down carriage. Throckmorton 2011-07-25T02:00:15.900Z Further, as the Hall was in a tumble-down state, and required a good deal of repair of an expensive character, it was pulled down, and the material distributed all over the county. Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z Mr. Turtle's office was in one of the upper rooms of a tumble-down tailor's shop in the village. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z This old woman was very poor, and her hut was but a tumble-down place, through the roof of which the rain came drip, drip, drip on more sides than one. Old Deccan Days or Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India 2011-07-12T02:00:31.917Z For health's sake the family went into the country, where they became tenants of a tumble-down Cistercian priory on the borders of Salisbury Plain. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z Nevertheless, though a tumble-down and sorry-looking tenement, yet it would afford a tolerably substantial shelter from the drenching fury of the storm. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z One sight of the one street of tumble-down houses, in face of a couple of miles of sand and shingle at low water, was enough. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z The bare walls were alone left standing, and these were in a very tumble-down condition. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z On June 23 the Nana’s hosts again nerved themselves for a desperate attack, and again were they flung off from that tumble-down wall. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z Very scornfully, she informed Fancy of the existence of a so-called wise woman, half-gypsy, who lived in a tumble-down cottage at Ocknell. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z Once on a time there was a poor woman who lived in a tumble-down hut far away in the wood. Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales 2011-06-13T02:00:24.710Z With an old female servant for her sole companion, she inhabited a small, tumble-down, two-storied house, which had but two windows in front. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z Barns and houses, fences and gateways, all in order; nothing tumble-down or neglected to be seen anywhere; an universal look of thrift and business and comfort. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z I've often seen terrible-looking, tumble-down places, as we drove through the town in mamma's carriage; but then I did not know who lived in them; and I never saw the inside of any of them. The Parent's Assistant Stories for Children 2011-05-18T02:00:12.733Z There were folks gathering outside the tumble-down shack to look at him. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z He idled about the front of his tumble-down house in Eufaula, happily recalling the old plantation days. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z Right in the far corner of the garden, almost indeed in the wood itself, and thickly embedded in trees, she came upon a ramshackle, tumble-down, two-storied kind of stable. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z At once some of the worst portions of London were purchased; tumble-down structures were removed; and plain, high brick blocks erected, around open squares, where the children could find a playground. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z “There’d be nothing aisier than setting the whole concern in a blaze standing so convanient to the road,” she thought, while she gazed and gazed with tantalised vindictiveness over the low, tumble-down wall. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z He went to the post office to get it because no letter-carrier could be expected to deliver mail to a tumble-down shack on the end of a long, far-away dock. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z He strained his eyes to make out the tumble-down structure rising above him. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z Billy Kane, reaching his destination, paused in front of a tumble-down and dilapidated frame house, and glanced around him. Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z As a rule they were straggly and unkempt, with tumble-down wooden houses and barns, and showed no pride in neatness, apart from a well-kept school-house or other solitary public building. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z The manuscript miscellanies of the time of James I. and Charles I. contain several copies of literal rhymes not very unlike "A, B, C, tumble-down D." Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z Her only home was a drygoods box on the end of a tumble-down dock. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z Breachy cattle are a sad affliction alike to their owner and his neighbor; and shaky, rotting, tumble-down fences, are justly responsible for their perverse education. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z The three men had turned from the sidewalk, and had disappeared inside a dingy, black and tumble-down tenement. Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z If I had availed myself of all your boasted 'opportunities,' I should now be the proud possessor of fourteen rattle-trap B�hl pianos and at least twenty-five tumble-down country houses. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z Over the tumble-down gate-way, with a pigsty on one side and a dog-kennel on the other, hangs a coat of arms. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z George knew nothing of the significance of a dance in which no less than six witch-doctors took part, or the history of the tumble-down hut that stood in solitude at one end of the village. Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z Old tumble-down buildings and wharves should not be tolerated in any city. House Rats and Mice Farmers' Bulletin 896 2011-03-12T03:00:26.220Z It was a queer setting for a robbery, this unpretentious, even tumble-down, little shop, with its back-room living quarters! Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z Every Sunday the Komaritzers come to us at Zirkow, driving over in a tumble-down old coach covered with faded blue cloth, hung on spiral springs, and called Noah's ark. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z Possibly after his visit there was left a happy peasant in that tumble-down cabin—an emotional object more often described than witnessed. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z All this lends quite an air of belligerency to the tumble-down building that houses them. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives 2011-02-25T03:01:01.877Z The house was tumble-down and shabby, and needed the new coat of paint it received soon after—but in the corner of the sitting-room stood a good parlor-organ. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z Hilda's home was a tumble-down old house set in a neglected garden. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z In the unpainted, tumble-down house next to the doctor's, somebody was awake and stirring. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z Bussy, who had made the way clear for the duc, lived, says Dumas, “in a tumble-down old house near the ramparts.” Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z It was one of an irregular row of mean, squalid, tumble-down houses, some of them little more than lean-to sheds built into the walls of Le Bouffay. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z The few miserable habitations of poles, mud, and tarred paper were scattered around a tumble-down lumber camp, relic of the old days when “punkin pine” turreted Misery Gore. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Just at the end of the valley, where the woods opened into clear slopes and hollows towards the west, he saw before him, low and overgrown, the walls of a little tumble-down grange. Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z Adjoining the court-house was the county jail, a tumble-down pile of mossy brick. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z It is not so very picturesque nor so very tumble-down, it is simply wobbly. Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z On the one to the left the village was built, its houses cramped within a tumble-down wall, dating from the days when it was needed as a defence. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z Thereupon they were ushered into the building whence the shots had been fired, which proved to be a tumble-down inn kept by an old Frenchman. Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America 2010-12-20T17:12:20.420Z On the road, to the right, he passed the tumble-down seat of the Neuhaus family, who rack-rented their tenants to stave off bankruptcy. The Undying Past Once or twice we passed horsemen who were coming out of the yards of their tumble-down houses, women and children crowding round. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open At this he moved faster, and in a few moments came upon a tumble-down hut such as is used by the charcoal-burners of the woods. The Princess Galva A Romance We walked quickly on finding that there were rather more tumble-down houses than we had expected. A Kut Prisoner He never even looked over his shoulder, only quickening his pace as he got near to the tumble-down, out-at-elbows steading of Little Springfield which he had leased for himself. Deep Moat Grange It was no such home as his—lacking all the evidence of rude comfort and coarse plenty that reigned there—and in its tumble-down disrepair it had an aspect of dispirited helplessness. The Raid of The Guerilla and Other Stories Their teacher had chosen a very picturesque little bit for their first attempt—a charming black-and-white cottage, with an uneven red-tiled roof and an irregular, tumble-down chimney. The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life To the right and left tumble-down brickwork, overgrown with half-withered celandine, jutted out above ragged thorn-bushes--the remains of the old castle, upon the ruins of which the manor house had been erected. The Wish A Novel We were hurrying on towards the boat we had seen, when we passed the end of a tumble-down boat-house and, to our dismay, found a Turkish sentry standing just inside. A Kut Prisoner We have matrimonial infelicities circumstantially described, as likewise the efforts of an impoverished family of nobles to keep up appearances in their tumble-down old castle. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim The American trenches ran zig-zag through the town—along tumble-down walls, into old cellars and basements, through neglected gardens, and around the corner of the ruined church itself. History of Ambulance Company Number 139 She solved it by taking her class to sketch a picturesque, tumble-down little farm, about a mile and a half away from Heathwell, where, for a marvel, not even a solitary specimen of childhood resided. The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life His housekeeper, an equally grey, tumble-down specimen of humanity, appeared on the threshold. The Wish A Novel Just as the water was being brought back to the boat an old sentry emerged from a tumble-down house on the beach, which our friends had, apparently, thought to be deserted. A Kut Prisoner The two girls were waiting in front of a tumble-down little German station in the country, apparently several miles from any thickly settled spot. The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas Beyond the trees was a tumble-down house with big bare windows glinting amongst the ivy. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Blind Alley was the most miserable collection of tumble-down tenements in Halifax. Terry's Trials and Triumphs I wouldn’t bother you but there’s an old tumble-down house that folks say has a ghost or something near here. The Auto Boys' Vacation Down a hillside sprinkled with rocks and low bushes they went, forded a sandy stream, scrambled over a tumble-down wall and entered the woods. The Crimson Sweater It seems as natural to make tales out of old tumble-down 131 traditions, as canes and snuff-boxes out of old steeples, or trees planted by great men. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow He hoped to return next year and see again the fig tree by his bedroom window and the level shore of the Loire estuary and the tangled tumble-down garden on the cliff's edge. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Well, any sum for this tumble-down, antiquated wreck would be robbery! Penny Nichols and the Knob Hill Mystery His finances had, apparently, run out, and in spite of paying two dollars a day for his accommodations, he, according to his own account, had to lodge in a tumble-down, dirty, poverty-stricken hotel. Lafcadio Hearn Presently a little group of buildings came into sight ahead; a store, a blacksmith shop, a tumble-down shed and three houses. The Crimson Sweater But, deary me, who would buy an old tumble-down place like that, on a road you cannot get folks who have any consideration for their lives to enter for love or money? Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth As she came to this resolution Pauline looked half apprehensively at her sister reading in the tumble-down arm-chair by the fire. Plashers Mead A Novel In a dimly lighted, poorly ventilated room about fourteen feet square, on a tumble-down bed, covered with filthy rags, lay a woman past middle age, apparently asleep. John Marsh's Millions It was a rackety, tumble-down old concern, with rattling windows, rooks, and rats, pretty much like this; and, what between my duns and Corny Delany, I very often think I am back there again. Jack Hinton The Guardsman Once upon a time there was a poor farmer who lived in a wretched tumble-down cottage beyond the village and whose farm consisted of a miserable little field no bigger than your hand. The Shoemaker's Apron A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales It was a considerable basin, lying among sand-hills, and surrounded with patches of down, ancient ruinous lumber, and tumble-down slums of the town. The Black Arrow A Tale of the Two Roses The presentation of his poems in proof had not a bit less wonderful effect than he had hoped, for Pauline could never finish turning over the pages and loving the ludicrously tumble-down binding. Plashers Mead A Novel What a miserable, tumble-down set of wretched hovels these Portuguese have here. The Ruined Cities of Zululand A Dutch farmhouse, rough of aspect, stood on an open space beyond the drift, and hard by it a few tumble-down sheep kraals and two or three native huts. A Veldt Vendetta And he have got a waistcoat the very spit of mine, and a tumble-down hat such as I do wear. International Short Stories English He was not long in finding the Barsotti Palace, where Layton lodged; an old tumble-down place it was, with a grass-grown, mildewed court, and some fractured statues, green with damp, around it. One Of Them Here they would float immotionable on the black water, surrounded by tumble-down buildings that rose from the vivid and exuberant growth of the thick-leaved vegetation flourishing against these cold and decayed foundations. Plashers Mead A Novel The studio was an enormous attic, running the length of an hotel once of some magnificence, now a tumble-down bit of still beautiful architecture. Fairfax and His Pride There was no Thames Embankment, and only a collection of wharves and coal agencies, and tumble-down sheds, at all times—especially when the tide was out—hideous to contemplate. Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself “He is going to sell you a couple of thousand acres of moor and a tumble-down manse for thirty thousand pounds.” Jacob's Ladder It was only a tumble-down sort of place, and they were afraid the floor might give way or the roof fall in, and somebody be hurt. The Story of John Wesley Told to Boys and Girls The route lay through the narrowest of streets, where tumble-down old houses swarmed with strange looking people. Dorothy on a House Boat It happened one morning that Gerard was in the tumble-down old stable, saddling up a horse to start upon some errand for his employer. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley At Reydon Hall, rather a tumble-down old place, as I recollect it, lived the Stricklands, and of the six daughters of the house five were literary women more or less successful. Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself You see, any tumble-down shanty of a brick building will stop a bullet, but nothing will here. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion One day in this year, 1739, while Mr. Wesley was in London, two gentlemen came and asked him if he would preach in this old tumble-down place. The Story of John Wesley Told to Boys and Girls Strange old tumble-down place this—might all be got for a song, I 'd swear. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly About noon he touched me on the elbow, as I stood by the deck-railing,— "There is where I live," pointing to a tumble-down old shanty back in a field. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 None had occurred to him by the time they reached the motor boat, which was moored at a tumble-down wharf, or jetty. The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam The "country" was represented by one or two large but straggling plots of erstwhile grazing-lands, but at that time dotted with chalk-pits, tumble-down wooden shanties, etc. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections Her mother was a poor widow with nothing but a tumble-down cottage and two little nanny-goats. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales She went so slowly that it was three quarters of an hour before she reached a remote part of the city, and finally stopped before a tumble-down house. Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace It seems certain that Eden Valley, which now lies between them, is a vast “tumble-down” of an immense cavern that formerly united them into one. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" He will draw up a sensible system, I think, With his nightcap and nightgown he'll stop every chink In this tumble-down edifice known as the world. Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine The houses in this pleasant vale have a disheartened tumble-down look, and give the impression of having been originally built by apprentices out of second-hand material. The Witches of New York It was not long before the old mocking doggerel was applied to Willenhall:— A tumble-down church— A tottering steeple— A drunken parson— And a wicked people! The Annals of Willenhall The trees grew pleasantly spaced upon a hilly sward, here and there interspersed with a rack for drying copra, or a tumble-down hut for storing it. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) It was a considerable basin, lying among sandhills, and surrounded with patches of down, ancient ruinous lumber, and tumble-down slums of the town. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) In Ship Yard, close to Shire Lane, once stood a block of disreputable, tumble-down houses, used by coiners, and known as the "Smashing Lumber." Old and New London Volume I To make certain of a couple of unreliable members of the choir, Honor cycled last of all to a picturesque little bungalow near the Police Court, and dismounted at its tumble-down gate. Banked Fires And why should he be in hiding in this queer tumble-down old place? The Campfire Girls on the Field of Honor At one point in the road, they came to a tumble-down hut, at the doorway of which rested a woman and her three small children, all watching the soldiers with eyes full of terror. The Campaign of the Jungle or, Under Lawton through Luzon Alone above the stream it stands, Above the iron hill, The topsy-turvy, tumble-down, Yet habitable mill. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers Thinking thus, I arrived at the house of Brainstein, the bell-ringer, who lived at the corner of the little place, in an old, tumble-down barrack. The Conscript A Story of the French war of 1813 The next morning when they all awoke the ugly little tumble-down house had disappeared, and in its place stood a splendid palace. The Brown Fairy Book In the centre was a tumble-down cabin, with a mud chimney on the outside. Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 If England wishes to assert her power here, she must have a far different force in the country from the handful of ragged and ill-armed soldiers who mount guard on the tumble-down forts at Annapolis. The Lily and the Cross A Tale of Acadia I am bound to add, of my own experience, that Maybole is tumble-down and dreary. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers How pleasant even that tumble-down house corroded with damp and mice seemed to her! The Grandee Five hundred Buddhas in one building, and all the buildings tumble-down and dirty. Letters from China and Japan "It's only a tumble-down old place, and must be very draughty to live in, even for a gamekeeper." Jimbo A Fantasy From Voudrin's tumble-down shanty Sturgeon Lake was nearly a hundred miles southwest. The Wilderness Trail I was up with a cousin who was fishing in a mill-lade, and a shower of rain drove me for shelter into a tumble-down steading attached to the mill. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Several Spanish ladies in tumble-down carriages averted their faces as we passed. The Boys of '98 The wind was getting stronger and when the girls reached the Hermit's Hut, a tumble-down shack half hidden in the brush, they gladly took shelter there from the wind. The Merriweather Girls and the Mystery of the Queen's Fan The house was sound indeed; there was no tumble-down condition of staircase or walls; the steps were safe, as they mounted flight after flight. Trading There was, both in and out of the town, a tumble-down, mouldy aspect to the dwellings, which seemed to be singularly neglected and permitted to lapse into decay. Due South or Cuba Past and Present The school the miser selected was one called Dotheboys Hall, a long, cold-looking, tumble-down building, one story high, in a dreary part of the country. Tales from Dickens The tumble-down condition of the cottage engaged Mrs. de Tracy’s attention. Robinetta “I never saw any one at that old tumble-down house before, Martinez,” Weir remarked, lessening the speed of the car. In the Shadow of the Hills Yes; a sort of narrow, dark, musty place, with a row of old, tumble-down tenements each side, where poor wretches live all huddled up together, fifty in a house, eh? Hidden Hand On a small level place surrounded by high cliffs stood a tumble-down house. Raiding with Morgan The hamlet bearing this name, where General Scott outflanked and defeated Santa Anna, April 18, 1847, consists of a few mud cabins in a tumble-down condition. Aztec Land It was described as a "mile or two from Tipperary," and the buildings were called "tumble-down shanties of wood, warped and decaying, already falling to pieces." Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule "Oh! but papa is going to get the horrid old church removed to the other end of the parish, and have a beautiful building instead of the present tumble-down old ruin." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 In the tumble-down shack where he lived with Rosario to the tune of quarrels, swear-words and cudgelings, not the slightest trace of abundance entered after the lucky trip "across the way." Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore The village is represented by a row of tumble-down houses and a scattering of picturesque negro huts. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba Afternoon Number Two found us in the Village of the Temple, a tumble-down little place, but a very citadel of pride and the arrogance of ignorance. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India Galway abounds in ruined fortalices, tumble-down abbeys, ivied towers and castles, none of which were built by the Irish race. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule The tumble-down gables of a descrepit frame house peeped out through the trees. Wanderer of Infinity David's dreadful fond of old stones, and old bones, and tumble-down edifices, and old sticks an weeds. Among the Brigands There my guide conducts me to a tumble-down negro hut kept by a decrepit negress, and situated in the midst of a very paradise of banana-trees, plantains, palms, and gigantic ferns. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba A wooden verandah, with tumble-down roof and worm-eaten supporting beams, runs along two sides of the house, and from the roof hang a number of gaily-coloured and decorated earthenware pots and jars. A Bride of the Plains He appeared on the mountain early in the summer, with these little ones, and preëmpted that tumble-down cottage over the bluff beyond our gates. Dorothy's House Party As they went along they noticed that the houses lining the streets began to wear a very tumble-down aspect, and to thin out more and more. Bert Wilson on the Gridiron About a mile away, near by the roadside, was a little tumble-down cottage. Robin Hood I've often seen terrible-looking, tumble-down places, as we drove through the town in mother's carriage; but then I did not know who lived in them, and I never saw the inside of any of them. Forgotten Tales of Long Ago I believe it was occupied by several poor families who rented tenements in the tumble-down dwelling. The Grey Woman and other Tales The house at Datchet was a tumble-down barn of a place, chosen rather as a workshop and observatory than as a dwelling-house. Pioneers of Science This was on the right hand at entering, and had at one time been a tumble-down shelter for a calf, who had many years before gone the way of all beef—into a butcher’s shop. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement Somehow they made her think of Miss Becky, living her little narrow, stationary life all alone in the old tumble-down farmhouse. A Bookful of Girls Just around the corner was a little tumble-down 38 house known as “The Rectory.” Hepsey Burke On the back of one of these lots stood a tumble-down wooden building, and hidden away in this building was the prairie-schooner. The Prairie Child When he was a safe distance out of the way, a little figure, dripping wet, scrambled in across the bog on the other side, and stole up through the fields to the old tumble-down house. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill It stood, low and whitewashed, amid a medley of little tumble-down erections, and was guarded on one side by cowsheds and on the other by the haystack. The Belovéd Vagabond At last he slipped away unobserved out of the house, and, looking about for somewhere to sleep, he found an old tumble-down house filled with peats. Tales From Scottish Ballads Fences, rotten and tumble-down, surrounded the small courtyards, which were covered with sweepings. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story Ellen laughed at the tumble-down condition of the house as thus pointed out to her, and set about reforming it. The Wide, Wide World I tell you my heart jumped when I passed the tumble-down old place; but it stood still when, as I marched up the plank-road, I heard a step behind me. Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly A tumble-down place I found it, but I was overjoyed to be in it, nevertheless. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure There was only one corner of the estate which he refused to sell, and that was the narrow glen, far out on the hillside, where the old tumble-down lodge stood. Tales From Scottish Ballads Just where the town and country met stretched a row of ragged, tumble-down buildings. The End of the Rainbow They came to a tumble-down barn, but she was too cold and wet to stop where there was no fire. Seven Miles to Arden The Tinker's family sat round a fire, in one of the tumble-down wooden cottages that dotted the outskirts of the little town of Ruhla. Soap-Bubble Stories For Children M. Vulfran had bought up all the old houses, the tumble-down hovels and huts, and had built new cottages in their places. Nobody's Girl (En Famille) He had hardly seen the tumble-down old place since he was a boy, and somehow, from his father's words, he expected to find someone living in it—his good old nurse, perhaps. Tales From Scottish Ballads In the vicinity is a large barn and several smaller outhouses, thrown in a tumble-down condition. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin Do you see yon rickety, tumble-down building, scarce big enough for a good-sized family? The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France We reached Verchneudinsk well after dark, and a queer little tumble-down phaeton took us to the inn chosen because of its German-speaking landlord. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia She lived in a miserable tumble-down house near the schools. Nobody's Girl (En Famille) A queer awry figure stuck its head from the window of a tumble-down shop and, seeing the cause of the disturbance, shook his fist and yelled: “The sheriff ought to be fired, to allow ...” Colorado Jim Do you see that old, tumble-down coal shed? The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin “This old street with its tumble-down houses, and uneven sidewalks, and tin cans surely needs a heap of something to cheer it,” she would say. Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens This quaint settlement is one of those little, waterside, old-fashioned-inn places, all drooping trees, punts, millions of roses, tumble-down cottages, stretches of meadows with the silver thread of the Thames glistening in the sunlight. Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914 She could not see any seats near the old tumble-down house where she was to lodge, so she left the table and sauntered down the village street. Nobody's Girl (En Famille) That one was a man named Ralph Temple, generally considered a ne'er-do-well and a vagabond, who lived in a tumble-down shanty in the edge of the wood. The Tin Box and What it Contained Not a shop to be seen; nothing but old, wretched, tumble-down houses, just as if I were at Roeskilde or Ringstedt. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen As the train draws into a city, they pass a little group of tumble-down houses, brown and gray, a heap of corners thrown together. The Enjoyment of Art It's the most tumble-down old place you ever saw, and nobody goes there except a few fishermen, but we know the clergyman and like him. The Wooden Horse They stopped at a door which Grey opened, and led the way into the passage of an old tumble-down cottage, on the ground floor of which were two low rooms which served for the school-rooms. Tom Brown at Oxford But, to his great relief, they reached the wharf, a tumble-down affair, before the tempest broke. The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code The tumble-down cottage was not empty, as he had thought, for two people were standing in the doorway. The Windy Hill I never saw such queer tumble-down places as you have here in the country. Three Little Cousins ‘Heartily glad not to be left to try to prop up a tumble-down log-hut with my own shoulder,’ he laughed. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster He must mean this poor little tumble-down house of His, that was certainly on the point of falling. Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light “Oh, misery me!” exclaimed Alexia, looking out at the tumble-down tenements, and garbage heaps up to the very doors. Five Little Peppers at School The “cities” are mere collections of tumble-down huts amongst which the moose roam at will. The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America Its situation, in the middle of that wilderness of mouldering wharves, decaying gardens, and tumble-down cottages, was in itself an invitation to the eye. Marjorie All this would furnish studies innumerable to those who are able to fabricate mouldy walls and tumble-down picturesqueness out of little tubes of colour and gray canvas. The Automobilist Abroad But it's miles from town And it's tumble-down, And the woodwork's done and the slates are brown; No one could really live in the cottage That doesn't belong to me. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914 An empty hut was set apart for our use: a tumble-down yurta of mud with the usual ice-windows, which necessitated the use of candles even on the brightest day. From Paris to New York by Land You couldn’t possibly sit on the back seat, for it’s as much as ever I’ll do to bring the lady home in this tumble-down conveyance. Girls of the Forest The foreigner was hurrying along the brink of the excavation, evidently heading for a small tumble-down cabin at its farther end. The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity It was a crazy, tumble-down old house, abutting of course on the river, and literally overrun with rats. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete I’m tired of living here as we do in this miserable, tumble-down place we call home. Little Lost Sister She hasn’t any property, really, except the little tumble-down house where she and Papa were born. Dorothy's Travels A tumble-down house; horrid, shabby, old-fashioned, old-maidy clothes; and never a decent meal to be had.” Girls of the Forest Looking down the road, Burnaby espied a tumble-down cart standing close into the hedge, and strode down to requisition it. Faces and Places I've often seen terrible-looking, tumble-down places, as we drove through the town in Mamma's carriage; but then I did not know who lived in them; and I never saw the inside of any of them. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes When all was quiet again, he came out and ran over the moor till he reached a tumble-down cottage, the door of which was ajar. Aunt Friendly's Picture Book. Containing Thirty-six Pages of Pictures Printed in Colours by Kronheim Rough work, open joints, ill-fitting ventilators, ill-proportioned plans and forms, and a general tumble-down appearance, is not the kind of economy we should recommend to our readers or practice on our own place. Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings Now the rumbling and the jumping and the uncertainty got into the avenue, and came nearer and nearer; and finally the tumble-down pony cart drew up at the house. Girls of the Forest Now the space from ruined shack to tumble-down shop was overgrown with weeds. The Return of Blue Pete He made his way swiftly through the darkness to a tumble-down building not far from Baxter street. Slow and Sure The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant We rode on until we reached the outskirts of the town, when we stopped before a small, tumble-down shanty, built of rough boards, and roofed with the same material. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy It was a little tumble-down shanty, standing beneath a hillock, and was as lonely a place as it was possible to be. Roger Trewinion The dwellings of the majority have an antiquated, ruinous, tumble-down aspect, such as I have observed nowhere else this side of Lower Italy. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. Why this, my friends: There was only one worn-out, dilapidated, tumble-down thing in the Parish of Hazeldean, and it became an eyesore to me; so I saddled my hobby, and rode at it. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 And since he liked especially to hunt along old stone walls, he picked out a long stretch of old tumble-down wall that reached through the woods towards Blue Mountain. The Tale of Grumpy Weasel Sleepy-Time Tales Ned was one of the hopeful members of a family that lived in a tumble-down shanty just across the road from the Carrolls. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 Alan put the horse in the tumble-down stable, the roof was half off, the rafters hanging down, the walls crumbling—an old place. The Rider in Khaki A Novel At length the driver of a tumble-down looking vehicle, with a superb coat of arms on the panel, made a signal in return and drew up near the pavement. Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs A Tale of Land and Sea The little fellow who worked all day long in the tumble-down old house by the river Thames pasting oil-paper covers on boxes of blacking fell ill one afternoon. Historic Boyhoods It was a queer, tumble-down old place with crooked rafters and crazy lattice windows. Mushrooms on the Moor The driver of a four-wheeled cab, his purple bemuddled face lighting up with a dull sort of humour, gave him a facetious invitation to get inside the tumble-down old vehicle. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols By these means the town acquired a tumble-down and battered appearance. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Each rivals the other in powers— Each waltzes, each warbles, each paints— Miss Rose, chiefly tumble-down towers; Miss Do., perpendicular saints. The Book of Humorous Verse Again, a rude shrine erected on piles, or a group of boys diving off a tumble-down wharf in the distance. A Venetian June On every side the tumble-down appearance of the buildings made their walk more solitary and dismal. Under the Rebel's Reign When Lady Caroline drove away from Gwynne Street, Janetta was left by the tumble-down iron gate with her father, in whose hand she had laid both her own. A True Friend A Novel "There is a family with seven children just moved into that tumble-down old house on the next road, and they look starved to death, to say nothing of the rags and patches they wear." At the Little Brown House We shall get out of this old, tumble-down post station, and be near the Héberts. A Little Girl in Old Quebec They lived in a tumble-down house in a waste of land near the steam cars, and besides her hens Mrs. Bob owned a goat. Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas If the old was tumble-down, dark and ill-furnished, its air was the pure air of the mountains and the way to it through things green and lovely. David Malcolm Arrived at the garage which had taken the place of our tumble-down barn, I put the car away as quietly as possible. The Thing from the Lake Throwing Gail's faded shawl over her head, she ran across the snowy fields to the old tumble-down house on the next road, where the new family lived. At the Little Brown House On another occasion, Milo was sitting with several companions in a rather tumble-down house. The Story of the Greeks President O'Hanrahan held himself with some dignity in the tumble-down reception hall of the presidential mansion. Attention Saint Patrick But, however tumble-down and squalid his dwelling may be, there is always a landlord who can evict him. The Conquest of Bread Even that termagant gossip, Mrs Hard-soul, who dwelt alone in a tumble-down hut near the quay, was heard upon one occasion to speak of her as “dear old Mrs Blyth.” The Battle and the Breeze There were certain clay-white, closely built villages, whose tumble-down houses jostled each other upon divers precipitous cliffs on the wayside between Florence and Rome, toward which Lennox's compass seemed always to point. Lodusky It was Fernald and Company that had led his father to sell the tumble-down farm in Vermont and move with his family to New Hampshire. Ted and the Telephone I say, if we had gone the first thing, instead of staring and poking about yon tumble-down house, we might have saved her. The Settlers at Home "Is it not a crying shame," they will exclaim, "that the people of Paris should take possession of all these fine houses, while the peasants in the country have only tumble-down huts to live in?" The Conquest of Bread It appeared to be in a very tumble-down ruinous condition, as we inspected it from the outside. Old Jack When, after passing Chagres, an old-world, tumble-down town, for about seven miles, the steamer reached Navy Bay, I thought I had never seen a more luckless, dreary spot. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands From the outside it looked like a tumble-down shed. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell The people are more squalid, the houses more wretched: the very mosque itself is in a dirty, tumble-down condition. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 By this time they had effected an entrance into the shed, the door of which was securely locked, while the boards of one entire side of the tumble-down structure swung in at a touch. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book It was a queer-looking, tumble-down place, but people said that from it there were trap doors and passages leading to all sorts of caves and cellars dug out of the ground underneath. More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme It was a mere tumble-down hut, with wattled sides, and a rotten thatched roof, containing two rooms, one small enough to serve as a bedroom. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands There were no pretty, well-finished, young-ladyish sketches of tumble-down cottages, and trees whose species no botanist could ever define;—or smooth chalk heads, with very tiny mouths, and very crooked noses. Olive A Novel Just behind it stood an old tumble-down house. The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II THE people of the neighbourhood were disposed to wonder why Mrs. Cavers lived on in the old tumble-down Steadman house after her husband's death. The Second Chance Manuel turned into the Café de l'Opéra, a tumble-down frame shack with a corrugated iron roof, to order a cooling drink and to puzzle out this utterly baffling mystery. Plotting in Pirate Seas Out he goes; and, leaving the tumble-down town behind him, he mounts the Acropolis to the right, or he turns to the Areopagus on the left. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Here and there she passed a tumble-down house, but the rest of the hill under the brilliant moon showed bare and brown. The Californians “Oh, we ran away, and have been running ever since, barring some few weeks we spent shut up in an old castle and a tumble-down tower,” answered O’Grady. Paul Gerrard The Cabin Boy In a rude, tumble-down hut close to the main building Lawrence found his patient. The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America The tumble-down cottage was near the sea, not far from a little bay named Howlin Cove. Post Haste They were locked, but the little entrance by the tumble-down cottage stood open, and passing through this I started up the drive. A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta In the afternoon we again sallied out, and succeeded in securing a tumble-down looking house, with three rooms in it and several out-houses adjoining. Hurricane Hurry The road was dark and uneven, and he followed cautiously, just keeping them in sight, until at a tumble-down little wharf they halted, and after a low consultation, boarded a small schooner lying alongside. The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant At the corner of the promenade, just where the old city and the new city meet, is a tumble-down mill. The Black Cross Love led the way through several low streets beside the wharves until he came to a court in which stood a tumble-down tenement with the legend “Lodgings” scrawled on a board above the door. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life In this manner he pursued his way for about an hour, till he reached a very narrow street of tumble-down houses, not far from Holborn. The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch You see, it was an old house, and like most old houses it was rather a tumble-down affair. The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk Do you see that old wharf with the tumble-down warehouses, and the long row of elms behind it? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Little I thought as I groped my way down the tumble-down staircase how many weary months were to elapse before I was to hold that gentle little hand in mine again. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 Blinkhampton is not essential to me; and your hotel and so on won't flourish much if I leave my tumble-down cottages and pigsties just behind them. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House In one of the tumble-down shacks near the sea we found the Sultana, Inchy Jamela, mother of the present Sultan, who had preceded her son to Sulu on a little visit. A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route What happened to the old woman who lives in that tumble-down shanty over the way? The Promised Land To you Garrison Hill is a tumble-down fort, and Saaron Island a barren rock; yet you call them yours, because you have purchased them. Major Vigoureux Security, ten acres of middling land, uncultivated, and a tumble-down house; title, droit de guillotine. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852 I got here through having made them bricks what you built this tumble-down old ancient place with.' The Magic City As a result of her generous offer, she was allowed to rent a tumble-down, unoccupied building, and opened her school with six pupils! Ten American Girls From History "And a very good thing too, father, for a more tumble-down old shanty I never was in." Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War After eighteen months or two years the houses are so rotten and tumble-down that the village is deserted and a new one built on another site. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia Swiftly he moved, closer—closer; the scar-faced man went through the tumble-down gate and approached the house, not knowing that his pursuer was less than fifty yards away! The Cross-Cut He had rooms to let, and on the first floor he ran a barroom, and although the building itself was an old tumble-down affair the barroom was quite expensively fitted up. Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist Dudie Dunne Again in the Field They drove through a break between the stables into the farm-yard, a large irregular space, surrounded on three sides by tumble-down buildings, and open to the fields on the fourth. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag With the boards taken from the tumble-down shack an extra shed had been built near the cabin, and the porch repaired and strengthened. Where the Sun Swings North "In a little tumble-down house beside the nettles," she told him. The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales It was a tumble-down place; the door was heavily studded with nails, and gave a most respectable air to the house: the leaded windows were just over his head, and tightly closed. By What Authority? It is the very thing to offer a thirsty traveller who stops at our tumble-down house to ask for a drink of water. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs Finally she turns down a narrow, crooked alley and enters a tumble-down house at the farther end. The Alchemist's Secret He was pointing to a tumble-down shed a few yards from the road to their right. Men Called Him Master So here I was detained in a tumble-down inn that had formerly been a temple. An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma A small book shelf and tumble-down cabinet stood upon either side of the table, and the celebrated American author and traveller lay propped up in a long split-cane chair. The Devil Doctor He saw the well, and he went up to the door of the tumble-down house and knocked, rat-tat-tat! Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs Wherever it has been possible to cram a tumble-down tenement into a crack or corner, in it has gone. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two The neighboring property of Vandon, with its tumble-down cottages, its neglected people, and hard agent, were often in Mr. Alwynn's thoughts. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers Arriving thus, one does not see the filth and squalor, the tumble-down buildings, unpaved streets, or many poor mean houses tucked in among the grander ones. All Aboard A Story for Girls At last we met some men from the battalion that we were going to relieve, and they acted as guides; past tumble-down houses, along roads full of holes, in and out of mudholes. Into the Jaws of Death At the third dip, the tumble-down house became new and splendid. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs His earthly possessions consist of about five acres of land, a tumble-down hut near by, and a double-barrelled shotgun, and he lost his secretaryship when the new administration made its clean sweep of the offices. The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow Disconsolately he wandered across to the Bijou Theatre, a tumble-down hut where a huge crowd was jostling and shouting. The Loom of Youth The old Kurhaus, a tumble-down building, is disappearing or has disappeared, and a new and gorgeous building is to take its place. The Gourmet's Guide to Europe To their right and left stretched a row of tumble-down cabins, some with the roofs totally gone and the doors fallen from the hinges. Ralestone Luck Once upon a time there lived three poor little dwarfs in a tumble-down house by a roadside, and each dwarf owned a china mug. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs Ellen laughed at the tumble-down condition of the house, as thus pointed out to her, and set about reforming it. The Wide, Wide World "It's the best stuff I ever ate," said Mr. Chu, as they entered their own tumble-down house. A Chinese Wonder Book Opposite them was an old, tumble-down house, weatherbeaten and bare of paint, its empty window sashes gaping like eyeless sockets. The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping Our favourite walk was to Keller's Landing, an old tumble-down lumber-wharf on the Tennessee River, used during the Civil War to land soldiers. Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists He had wished to "show-off" before his little playmates, and after rudely fastening several boards taken from the tumble-down old mill into a crude attempt at a raft, had boldly launched the same. The Chums of Scranton High Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight Over across fields were the tumble-down cottages occupied by the employees of the Massey Steel Mills. Suzanna Stirs the Fire Now, not far from the river there lived an old man in a tumble-down shanty. A Chinese Wonder Book The porches and steps have fallen down, the garden is a disreputable tangle, and the graves in the yard are heaped with tumble-down stones about which the cattle graze. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' But now, to Mary's astonished eyes, the garden appeared almost as well planted as her own, and from the chimney of the tumble-down cabin a lazy curl of smoke rose. The Shield of Silence “She could do better than to buy that tumble-down old shack.” An Alabaster Box The priest declared that a boy like that shouldn't waste his youth in the shabby, tumble-down village of Reus—he should go to Barcelona and receive instruction in art. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters It was well after six o'clock when the jogging old horse turned into a lane, and finally stopped at a somewhat tumble-down porch. Marjorie at Seacote It led her to a tumble-down fence, surrounding a spacious, deep-turfed lawn, with native forest trees—oak, elm, and chestnut—growing where nature had set them. Honey-Sweet "Your master's life hangs upon your speed—hold, wait! do you remember that old tumble-down shed we passed on our way here; the one which had once been a farrier's shop?" Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France General Grant's headquarters were in the second story of a tumble-down building. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1 And Carpazzi's tumble-down castle not far from Vencata, enabled him to go without hurt to his European ideas of dignity to "look after his own property." The Title Market She was too lonely and homesick even to cry, and she sat, a pathetic, drooped little figure, on the old tumble-down porch. Marjorie at Seacote Have you never heard that he has a young ward, beautiful as an angel, whom he keeps cooped up as tenderly as a brooding dove in his tumble-down old house on the Canal Orfano? The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales Better houses with plastered fronts washed yellow or blue, and even pinky red, alternated with tumble-down wooden structures. Romance You remember that we have a picket-fence toward the road, but on three sides the boundary is only a tumble-down stone wall in which bird cherries have here and there found footing. The Garden, You, and I The Old Place—that tumble-down old ruin of a house all alone out there on the cliffs. The Blood Ship We lived in the tumble-down house ourselves, mamma and I, and her friends rallied round her—she was so popular and pretty. The Motor Maid Each tumble-down tenement is rated and taxed on the assessment based upon its annual rental value. Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 At last, out of the dreary waste, at the end of the interminable ill-paved sloughy road, the long line of the grey tumble-down walls rises gloomily. Rome in 1860 All the way home his heart felt as heavy as lead, and, when he came in sight of the little tumble-down cottage, his eyes were blurred with tears for a moment. The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle Two tumble-down houses were rented in a little habited part of the town, and in these a gang of close-mouthed Italian laborers was quartered. The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip "Making Good" as Young Experts This is far too fine a trough for a tumble-down hut like ours. Old Peter's Russian Tales Instead of riding worn-out, tumble-down, twenty-pound screws, he was mounted on hundred-guinea horses, for which the dealers were to have a couple of hundred, when they were paid. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Half a dozen tumble-down carriages represent the Roman element. Rome in 1860 A few tumble-down frame and log shanties sprawled up the desultory grass-grown main street, at one end of which dwelt a Mandan Indian family in the mud lodge. The River and I The landlord had long ago ceased to concern himself with his tumble-down property. Jacqueline of Golden River He had sisters and brothers and parents, but they dwelt in a little tumble-down shack and were wretchedly poor. "Say Fellows—" Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues Time alone can, and is rapidly making away with the old tumble-down buildings which spoil the appearance of their neighbours. Town Life in Australia For instance, from among the litter in a tumble-down shop Mr. Bodge produced something in the shape of a five-pointed star that he called his "Anti-stagger Shoe." The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul In the evening, soppy and chilled, we were pulling past a tumble-down shanty built under the bluffs, when a man stepped from the door and hailed us. The River and I Hunt and Hale have made their very tumble-down barn a perfect model of neatness. Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front Some of them do not appear to be very old, and many present the appearance of tumble-down walls, but the stones of which they are constructed were plainly used in their natural state. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan A 'shanty,' originally a low public-house, now denotes any tumble-down hut. Town Life in Australia "And a little tumble-down inn with a vine for an awning." The Summons The king's daughter hated not only her, but her tumble-down house, and had sent again and again, with large offers of gold, to try and purchase the cottage. Miscellanea It was over a stable, in the second story of a tumble-down old house, frequented by dogs, cats, fleas, and rats; in a room say fifty feet long by twenty wide. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 On the south side of the street stood a number of dingy rookeries, in a half tumble-down condition. A Sketch of the History of Oneonta There is a church, I believe, though it's a tumble-down one. The Ship of Stars But while I laud and melt I cannot refrain from recalling a poverty-stricken peasant's family which received an orphaned niece into its wretched, tumble-down little hovel. A Reckless Character And Other Stories It was in a poor part of the city—an old, tumble-down wooden house, swarming with tenants, teeming with misery, filth, and crime. The Fatal Glove Prato is a little cathedral town, very like the narrow and tumble-down parts of Florence, only more so. An Englishwoman's Love-Letters It was not the fact of his going into them which disturbed Patrasche: he knew that people went to church: all the village went to the small, tumble-down, gray pile opposite the red windmill. Stories of Childhood Yes, he lives in that tumble-down shanty over the hill. The Rover Boys on the River The Search for the Missing Houseboat The studio was situated in the narrowest part of the Rue du Four, at the far end of a decrepit, tumble-down building. His Masterpiece A miserable attic chamber, dimly lighted by one dirty sky-light, a miserable bed in one corner, a broken chair, an old wooden chest, a rickety table, a few articles of delf, a tumble-down little cook-stove. The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week There are but few now left who have enjoyed a night in one of these old tumble-down rooms, with A.S. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest She was about as suitable there as a tumble-down haystack in a handsome town street, or as a cow on a flight of stairs—that is to say, not at all. One of Life's Slaves After supper she went with David into the old loft over the tumble-down stables. The Rebel of the School There was an old tumble-down lodge at the gates. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town Fessul bin Turkee, the present ruler of Oman, lives in a large, tumble-down old castle in Muscat, and his big red flag waves over the town every Friday, the Mohammedan Sabbath. Topsy-Turvy Land Arabia Pictured for Children All stood open; and had Klaus been a student of meteorology, a better observatory than his loopholed, tumble-down homestead could not have been to be had. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 His wigwam was so wretched that all the tribe laughed at its tumble-down look. Stories of American Life and Adventure Their guide rapped three times on a door of a tumble-down shack. A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today Soon after four that afternoon, Davis's tumble-down cab might have been seen standing outside the gate of the Gray House. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town He climbed the tumble-down stone wall across the road, and went along a narrow path to the spring that bubbled up clear and cold under a great red oak. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Sam's barn is an old tumble-down collection of sheds and the most lovely place I ever got into. Over Paradise Ridge A Romance A dejected old scarecrow, and a tumble-down shed in the distance were the only objects that presented themselves. Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories The boy started upon a brisk run, and Jim still sat upon the stone watching him until he disappeared somewhere among the angles of the tumble-down buildings that constituted the establishment. Sevenoaks The shabby, delightful old rooms, the tumble-down appearance of the ancient house, the lack of luxuries proved it, but they were exceedingly content. The Imaginary Marriage They commented on everything that whirled within sight—a bend in the road, a crooked Line, a tumble-down fence. The Colossus A Novel Our furniture consisted of two wooden chairs, a box turned upside down for a toilet-stand, a rickety bedstead, with unmusical creak, a tumble-down lounge, and dismal, but genuine tallow dip. The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl His house was a tumble-down affair in which no one but Mr. Rabbit would ever have thought of living, and his garden—oh, dear me, such a garden you never did see! Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories We went in the same order as before; and a walk of less than fifteen minutes brought us to another tumble-down building, which appeared to have been once a court-house. Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance These two well-meaning but ignorant men decided that a brand-new church would be a great improvement on this old tumble-down building. Vanishing England On our way to Domodossola, I saw a pretty dark-eyed young woman, with a cherubic baby in her arms, standing in the doorway of a tumble-down cottage. The Princess Passes Rand put money into the hands of the slaves and sent them away happy to the tumble-down quarter behind the house. Lewis Rand Finally Mr. Rabbit had made the round of all his friends and neighbors, and he once more reached his tumble-down house. Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories I'm afraid it's a tumble-down old place, and will swallow a lot of money without looking much better for the dose. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 The Miller's widow was an old deaf woman, who lived quite alone, in a little, tumble-down cottage, just off the road, on a lonely hillside. Veronica And Other Friends Two Stories For Children Has he sold you that tumble-down claim on a burnt prairie, miles from any wood or water? Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 In a tumble-down cabin resembling a deserted forge, he found a miserable man seated at a few embers, with a starved-looking dog beside him, that was not able to crawl. The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines The graves are squeezed tightly together, and the headstones, generally in a tumble-down state, are shaped like a coffin standing on end, or like a round hitching-post with a fez cap carved on the top. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 On one side were the tumble-down stables, near which a squealing white stallion with long, red-dyed tail was tied to a peepul tree. The Elephant God He had already had part of the material drawn, and from the brow of the hill they looked down upon the site he had chosen near the old tumble-down tenant's house. The End of the World A Love Story In the daytime one could not see the possibility of cutting through the labyrinth of these forlorn tumble-down houses. The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 But it was by the tumble-down gate at the end of the chestnut avenue that she turned and faced me. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Bowling Green's log cabin, half a mile north of New Salem, just under the bluff, still stands, but long since ceased to be a dwelling-house, and is now a tumble-down old stable. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896 The bareness of Minnie Davis' yard was relieved by a single rosebush, and her small house might best be described as a "tumble-down shack." Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 On one side three or four haystacks, half covered with snow; on another a tumble-down windmill, whose sails, made of coarse limetree bark, hung idly down. The Daughter of the Commandant He walked Rupert round to the tumble-down stable, and dismounted. Greatheart Without possessing Meryon's grim power in the presentation of old Paris streets and tumble-down houses, Lalanne has achieved several remarkable plates of this order. Promenades of an Impressionist You require experience to be on the lookout for the perils of Maritzburg streets, it seems, for all their sleepy, deserted, tumble-down air. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Tawdry spangles and false jewels lay about on the tumble-down settees. Six Women We choose two of the tumble-down vehicles and go after the ladies. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 While we—we live in a tumble-down, ramshackle old place, and do all the work ourselves. Greatheart I don't care what people say about those crazy old tumble-down buildings of the Middle Ages, they may be beautiful and all that, but they're useless nowadays. The Boy With the U.S. Census A tumble-down couch stood against the wall, and in an opposite corner a heap of tattered quilts had been flung disdainfully. Broken to the Plow Preceded by these eunuchs, let us now go over the tumble-down ruins of the palace. Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm They had a room on the second floor of a tumble-down barrack, and one small bedroom out of it; but Granny thought it almost a palace, because Susy was so good to her. The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls The tumble-down, two-roomed house in which the Warrens lived was across the road from the schoolhouse, and Mrs. Warren's voice was penetrating. Hillsboro People From 'On the Heights' Hansei received various offers for his cottage, and was always provoked when it was spoken of as a 'tumble-down old shanty.' Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Thus had the tumble-down log-house been transformed into a tight and comfortable camp. The Lady of Big Shanty One of these haunted abodes we have inspected, with its tumble-down buildings; the other I will now describe. Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm There are the Jimsons in their tumble-down house, and here are we with a perfectly whole, clean barn without even a cat in it. The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls It was nearly morning when we got off the bog, and as the rain was falling we took refuge in a tumble-down hut which had probably been a cowherd's. Three Times and Out The house in which the pair took up their abode was dismal, prison-like, and tumble-down; when they left it, the competitors for the succession were a cobbler and a publican. Cowper In all the time that they were out they passed only one building, a tumble-down, weather-beaten shack that looked as though it had not been inhabited in twenty years. The High School Boys' Fishing Trip The site on which they have built their premises was an old, tumble-down godown, in the occupation of some French people of the name of Dollet, who sold French wines, brandy, and condiments. Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century But to Gerry, with the tumble-down house fresh in her memory, it was all that could be desired. The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls Before a low-lying, tumble-down wooden shack of but a single story the little man paused and glanced furtively about. The Boy Allies in the Trenches Midst Shot and Shell Along the Aisne It was a note of gay melody struck athwart the discordant monotony of soiled tent houses, tumble-down huts and oblong, flat-roofed buildings stretching their disorderly array along the road. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts The abomination of desolation is but a poor type of its forlorn appearance, as, half buried in sand, its straggling, tumble-down wooden houses peer over the muddy bank of the thick slimy river. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839 I wish," returned her father, "they would sell me that tumble-down place in the hollow they call the Old House of Glaston. Paul Faber, Surgeon The little Jimsons were not playing in the mud outside the tumble-down house as usual. The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls One of Vreiboom's tumble-down old sheds fired while we were trying to clear it. The Top of the World The society owned a tumble-down church; a mild preacher stood in its pulpit and prayed and preached, sideways and slouchy. The Morgesons The house at which I called was a tumble-down barrack of a dwelling in the woods, with a sort of poverty-stricken pretentious air about it, like sundry 'proud planters' dwellings that I have seen. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839 One in particular attracted his attention, perhaps because it was more dilapidated and tumble-down than the rest. Sir Robert Hart The Romance of a Great Career, 2nd Edition A tumble-down archway, leaning to one side like a lame hen, gave access to a dark passage, dank with moisture, whereon the door of the house gave some eighteen feet up on the left. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk So the mason who came to mend the broken chimney found himself, much to his surprise, put first at the tumble-down stone pillars of the gateway. Strawberry Acres The next morning Jack lost no time in making his way toward Hank Handcraft's tumble-down abode. The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol The buildings on either side are very irregular, and of various descriptions; some consist of ranges of small shops, with a story above in a very dilapidated and tumble-down condition. Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay I doubt if a single tumble-down wall had been replaced—the dirt and smells still remained, and the roads were no smoother. Sir Robert Hart The Romance of a Great Career, 2nd Edition He encamped with horses and men in an old tumble-down brick-kiln, in the solitude of a dense forest which surrounded the town at that time. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes A worn-out, tumble-down, rickety carriage with wobbling wheels, and an equally worn-out, thin, dejected, venerable animal, with an immense blood spavin on left hind leg, recently blistered! Adopting an Abandoned Farm I found one of the camp doctors who remembered that accursed year of plague—an old man, withered, indifferent, sleeping his days away on the rotting gallery of his tumble-down house. Ailsa Paige Here was a good modern cattle-shed, well-designed for the purpose; yonder was a tumble-down building, with holes in the roof and walls. Hodge and His Masters Srinagar has no architecture in particular, being but a picturesque chaos of tumble-down wooden shanties. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil "Old—old—it's an old, tumble-down ruin, that's what it is," he grumbled. The Purchase Price They are Taoist priests, and the chances are that they have a tumble-down temple in this vicinity. Boy Scouts on Motorcycles With the Flying Squadron A dim, dirty, smoky, tumble-down, rotten old house it was ... but here the firm ... transacted their business ... and neither the young man nor the old one had any other residence.—Chap. xi. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook The increase arose in part from the diminished expenses, for it has been found that a tumble-down place is more costly to maintain than one in good repair. Hodge and His Masters He never forgot the shabby dark back room where under gas-light a frail, fine woman was sewing ceaselessly, one child sick in a tumble-down bed, and two others playing on the floor. The Nine-Tenths They weren't worth looking at—mere tumble-down sheds in which Moslem boys were taught to say the Koran by heart. Jimgrim and Allah's Peace They had a tiny little tumble-down house to live in, but very little to eat. Philippine Folk-Tales It was a considerable basin, lying among sand hills, and surrounded with patches of down, ancient ruinous lumber, and tumble-down slums of the town. The Black Arrow He was content with the tumble-down sheds till it was possible to shelter cattle in them no longer. Hodge and His Masters Alone above the stream it stands,Above the iron hill,The topsy-turvy, tumble-down,Yet habitable mill. Moral Emblems The Micawber family were lodged in a little, dirty, tumble-down public-house, which in those days was close to the stairs, and whose protruding wooden rooms overhung the river. David Copperfield At the base of the knolls he encountered a tumble-down stake-and-rider fence. Burning Daylight The neighbourhood was fine enough to look down upon these two tumble-down shops at the corner, kept by Tony and Mrs. Murphy, the grocer. The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories It took her more than half an hour to get to a distant part of the little town, but at last she stopped in front of a small tumble-down house. The Violet Fairy Book At last we stumbled on it—a tumble-down coffee house, with A. Kuprasso above the door in queer amateur lettering. Greenmantle There was still a little ice in the lake, but they rowed to the spot without great difficulty and made their way to the tumble-down cabin. Joe the Hotel Boy The parsonage here's a tumble-down place, sir, not fit for gentry to live in. Adam Bede Close to it was a dripping spinney, its trees forming a darkling background to the tumble-down house, whose thatch was rotting into holes, and its walls sagging forward perilously. The Shuttle The furniture could not have been much simpler: a very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble-down table. Adventures of Pinocchio He knew all about the tumble-down, miserable cottages, and the bad drainage, and the damp walls and broken windows and leaking roofs, and all about the poverty, the fever, and the misery. Little Lord Fauntleroy Distance me!" said Craigengelt, "but I know the reason now of his unmannerly behaviour at his old tumble-down tower yonder. The Bride of Lammermoor David had passed the tumble-down shanty, and was hesitating where two streets crossed, when he felt a light touch on his arm. Just David As he went some memory of pleasant evenings spent with the thin-legged children in the tumble-down house by the creek must have come into his mind, for he muttered words. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life When they reach the tumble-down hut the keeper asks him cheerily to dismount and to come in. The Captain of the Polestar He lived in the same tumble-down old shanty we have just passed,—so poor that nobody'd take the gift of it. Paul Prescott's Charge The place had a forlorn, tumble-down aspect, quite in keeping with its lonely situation; but perhaps this very circumstance flattered the mood of its silent, melancholy owner and his unhappy son. Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home Across the field surrounding Mrs. Hyatt's shanty she saw the tumble-down house in which she supposed the funeral service had taken place. Summer The two, with half a dozen thin-legged children, lived in a tumble-down frame house beside a creek at the back end of the Wills farm where Ray was employed. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life A moment later four others appeared from within and came out to the tumble-down porch. Bob Cook and the German Spy Round the corner into the street of tumble-down houses sped yelling Barnabas, scattering people right and left; round the corner came No. 1 Hard in his rear. The Amateur Gentleman Time had cracked and warped its planks, but pieces had been nailed across weak places, giving the hut a botched and tumble-down appearance but keeping it weather-tight. The Brown Mask |
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