| 单词 | hovel |
| 例句 | He lived in a hovel out near the animals and, according to Buttercup’s mother, he kept it clean. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z All the same, Meggie slept well or, anyway, better than on Capricorn's damp straw or in the hovel with the ruined roof. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The space was much larger than it had seemed from without, stretching off to right and left into the adjoining hovels. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z More ruins lay beyond it—an old well, and some circles in the grass that marked the sites where hovels had once stood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mrs. Myles was a widow who lived alone in a tiny hovel in Redding. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the houses were attractive; most were merely hovels. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The craftmen’s workshops had glass roofs to let the sky in, while the painters survived in dark hovels that were a paradise of misery and grandeur. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z First a house with no damage, next a house still bearing black streaks of soot and smoke, then a field of ruin, with makeshift hovels crafted from tent, brick, and scorched timbers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Cats in malt houses, granaries, ship holds, mansions, and hovels caught a last mouse, setded down to wash their fur and sleep. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A part of her was still in Capricorn’s village, or trudging through thorns, or cowering in the ruined hovel and trembling as Basta came closer. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I will not have you return to a hovel. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z William passed peasants working the abbey’s fields, and their little dark hovels, lining the road. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z In the meantime, they saved, and scratched, and piled away what they could in the rented hovels, looking forward to the day of property. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z This tenantless hovel, so innocent looking from the outside, was really a makeshift sheep stable. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z There was silence, an almost gentle quiet in Herbie’s gloomy hovel. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At first, having found his way to Village, he had thought his own brutal beginnings—a fatherless hovel for a home; a grim, defeated mother who beat him and his brother bloody—were unusual. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z But he was also the city’s most famous kite maker, working out of a tiny hovel on Jadeh Maywand, the crowded street south of the muddy banks of the Kabul River. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z His eyes were fixed on the ruined hovel. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Mo pulled her to her feet and pushed her and Farid into the shelter of the dark hovel. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Do you know how long we lay in that filthy hovel?” he snarled at Meggie. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Voldemort’s eyes moved slowly around the hovel and then found the man in the armchair. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z They didn’t look at all like the hovels he’d seen on TV. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Sisterton’s streets were mud and planks, its houses daub-and-wattle hovels roofed with straw, and by the Gallows Gate there were always hanged men with their entrails dangling out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His home above Hippie Cove was a windowless hovel, which he built without benefit of saw or ax: "He’d spend days,” says McKinney, "grinding his way through a log with a sharp stone.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly my dirt-colored hovel of a home seemed so much nicer than before. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z My parents thought it might cheer me up if I could escape from our hovel and visit a cousin who lived a few hours away in East Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z At last they came upon a little hovel of the humblest sort, poorer than any they had yet found, with a roof made only of reeds. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “A ruin, a ridge, and a few hovels? Come, my lord. You must suffer for your treason. He will want one of the mills, at least.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The storm had buried every hut and hovel beneath a mound of dirty snow, and the drifts would soon be deep enough to engulf the longhall too. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z No princes had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast-growing spurge. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Couldn’t your father have that hovel cleared away, Tom?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z If they grew too damaging, the farm boy handled things, emerging silently from his hovel, thrashing a few of them, sending them flying. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “In here,” she whispered and, looking around to make sure we hadn’t been seen, pushed me through a door into a cramped hovel that reeked of peat smoke. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “There’s not enough room in this hovel for more than two of us!” said one man, his elaborate armor and demeanor marking him as the commander. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Lakeview Trail was one of those half-and-half subdivisions—half pretty new houses like Downing Heights, half run-down hovels with crumbling sidewalks, like mine. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z We thought this was another one of his surprises, but he finally convinced us that the house was a hovel. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The hovel fell silent, then the canvas was pushed aside and the father stepped out, a musket in his hand. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z But now it is 2023 and we are at Pace, the blue-chip gallery in West Chelsea, where this claustrophobic junkyard hovel contrasts sharply with the pristine white walls surrounding it. Party Like It’s 1959 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z The ghastliest hovels, like Ruby’s house, often yield the highest returns. Review: In ‘Evicted,’ Home Is an Elusive Goal for America’s Poor 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z What hovels will they fashion for themselves in the entrepreneurial rubble? Clark Kent's got a new job. But where next for Morse, Jeeves and Mr Chips? 2012-10-27T23:18:27Z She couldn’t relax, she explained while visiting yet another grad school hovel, until she could picture the places where each one of her children fell asleep. Perspective | My mother has forgotten everything, including me. But her love is still here. 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z There is something of Monty Python in its medieval setting: twin princes, separated at birth, one growing up in the castle, the other in a hovel just outside. Aardman's 20 best films – ranked! 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Cutting against this discipline is the chaos of 20-somethings living in a hovel. Review: In ‘Days of Rage,’ the Revolution Will Be Trivialized 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Harsent had been sending poems to Hamilton from a "two up, two down hovel with an outside bathroom" where he lived with his first wife. David Harsent: A life in writing 2011-02-21T08:00:00Z The director Trip Cullman gets all the tempos right, forcing the audience into an uncomfortable alliance with the characters as they hole up in their hovel, certain they are about to be attacked. Review: In ‘Days of Rage,’ the Revolution Will Be Trivialized 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z There is only one cut of suit, which is not enough, even with the in-store tailor who has his own posh hovel in the rear. A Men’s Wear Store Made for Men 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z We’ve been into Maggy the Frog’s hovel in the woods, and returned with visions of five future Sunday night viewing scenarios. Tales of Tyrion: what could a Game of Thrones spin-off series look like? 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Rutherfurd spends time up and down the social ladder in "Paris," but he seems to prefer the chateau over the hovel. Novel traces fates Paris families over centuries 2013-04-30T11:32:14Z Carter deftly re-creates the squalor of the times, the smells of cesspools and horses, the rundown hovels crowded with too many children, and the gloom rolling in off the Thames. ‘The Infidel Stain’ evokes a chilling time in Victorian England 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Which of our past military or commercial or hereditary empires would have unleashed something as powerful as the Internet, letting it spread — unfettered and free — to every tower and hovel? How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z The buildings range from hovels to palaces, and their details recall a lot of history. In the galleries: D.C. artist summons the supernatural in the everyday 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Nearby is a hovel where Jon, a boy of Luke's age, lives with his catatonic grandparents. First novels roundup | Book reviews 2010-03-27T00:08:00Z The town’s main drag is an unpaved stretch of potholes, and many of the homes are merely hovels, clad in plywood siding. Personal Journeys: Dodging a Holiday in a Remote Mexican Town 2013-12-27T17:34:54Z By this time I was living in the nasty skanky hovel in Venice Beach where you could satisfy all your crack needs by sticking your head out the window and yelling, “Yo!” I wrote my way to true love 2013-02-14T01:00:00Z He rented a tiny hovel of an apartment down the block from police headquarters on Centre Street in Lower Manhattan. A Portrait of Weegee That Captures the Man and the Myth in Full 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z “It was like Travis Bickle’s apartment, but with no windows,” moaned Aster, 36, going off on a recent video call about his “total hovel” of a pandemic lockdown. Ari Aster Has Something Funny to Show You. Don’t Be Scared. 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z “These peasants didn’t get the message that it was time to wander back to their flea-infested hovels,” he thinks at a party in Tripoli, smiling politely at his Libyan guests. In Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s Second Novel, an Ex-President Goes Rogue 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z That her fears are not misplaced becomes clear in an encounter in Jud’s dank hovel of a home. Review: A Smashing ‘Oklahoma!’ Is Reborn in the Land of Id 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Living alone in a cat-infested hovel, Lucas pursues his calling as the local witch doctor or dentist; people come to him to get their demons extracted. 'The Rite' Review: Anthony Hopkins Speaks of the Devil 2011-01-28T09:30:00Z “I used to leap out of the hovel semi-naked every night, shouting impenetrable Shakespearean mad talk,” he said. Bill Nighy, Master of Misdirection 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Miranda, who saw “Rent” at 17, is palpably thrilled to gain access to his hero’s hovel on Greenwich Street, here recreated with exactitude — right down to the Scorpions cassette. ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’ Review: A Bohemian’s Rhapsodies 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Living in a hovel, wearing homespun, bringing home a rabbit for the pot. 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Thomas More Follows His Principles Straight to the Torture Chamber 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Along the way, he encountered Gypsies making sausage on the floor of a Romanian hovel and living in weirdly beautiful shantytowns in Slovakia and tents in Afghanistan. T Magazine: Viva Roma 2011-03-10T23:22:36Z I'm not wanting and I don't live in a hovel, but if you keep your costs low, you can do what you want to do creatively. Sarah Silverman's not kidding ... maybe 2011-03-24T16:26:00Z Whole families were crammed into one-room cellars, hovels, and cheap apartments. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Where the $300 hovels seemed like a reasonable offer, or at least an affordable one? The 'plantation mentality' of farm work means brutal housing conditions are normal 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Garcetti has acknowledged that he became the public face of homelessness, with the attendant images of sidewalks and underpasses crowded with filthy tents and cardboard hovels. Eric Garcetti led L.A. during profoundly turbulent times. How will history judge him? 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Entire families, usually including grandparents, lived in one- or two-room hovels that were cold, dark, and dirty. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Before their new house was built, Reyes and her husband, Leandro Membreño, rented a hovel made of clay and galvanized metal sheets. A California city that became Little El Salvador feels the pain of separation from its parent 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z "I was left in this crowded backstreet hovel in Halifax, while my sister went off to a rather grand life." 'I searched for my sister for 30 years, but Covid took her from me' 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z In one town, veiled women winnow golden grain; arriving in the next, he finds elegant but impoverished residents strutting lace and velvet attire on streets lined with hovels. Laurie Lee’s classic vagabond tale channels joy on the open road 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z The brothers also disliked the fact that bookmakers' shops looked like "hovels". CEO Secrets: From Ordsall poverty to being a billionaire 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z “I wanted a hovel, a hut,” she says. She turned an unpermitted backyard studio into the ultimate WFH hideaway 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Some are living on the streets of L.A., hunkered down in dilapidated campers, tents, or makeshift hovels of cardboard, wooden pallets and plastic tarps. Photos: An uncomfortable look at homelessness during the pandemic 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Most of the money vanished, she says, and she still works from a hovel made of wood and tarpaulin. 'He ruined us': 10 years on, Tunisians curse man who sparked Arab spring 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z “I walked back to my depressing hovel with an electricity in my step and a newfound buoyancy of spirit,” Lanegan writes. ‘Heroin stopped me dying of alcoholism’: Mark Lanegan, rock's great survivor 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Brick hovels have been replaced by whimsical mansions. Socialism doesn’t work? An emerging middle class of Bolivians would beg to differ. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z As a young journalist, I moved into her grandparents’ hovel, to better understand the country’s vast poverty, and I’ve been reporting on the family’s migrations ever since. What Makes an American? 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z But in Wu Assassins, the reveal is set in a drug-addicts’ hovel, and it’s played completely straight, with all the fun drained out of it. Netflix’s Wu Assassins series lacks the Hong Kong cinema magic 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z They once ruled millions of people, now they are living in hovels. Last ISIS enclave a scene of ‘devastation:’ Fox News visits only remaining village ruled by terror group 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Secretly captured video inside these padlocked hovels reveals heartbreaking scenes of kids making cheap toys, accessories and trinkets to be sold wherever deals are too good to be true. Review: In ‘The Price of Free,’ Kailash Satyarthi’s white-knuckle rescues of child laborers - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z One later commented that when he reached our little hovel, the smell was fantastically terrible from all of us clustered together for so long in our stinky cave gear. Perspective | What it’s like to be trapped in a cave 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z The army issued scores of demolition orders for the Bedouins’ rickety hovels of corrugated tin, scrap wood and nylon fabric. As Israel Pushes to Build, Bedouin Homes and School Face Demolition 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z After drinks we walk, his hand in my back pocket, to his rent-controlled hovel on the beach. I’m cooking up a hot sex life, post-marriage 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z "I use the word hovel, because it was." Hoarder: 'My house was a hovel' 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z He finds success addictive, becoming a social climber, to the dismay of the beatific Charity, who seems to have enjoyed living in a hovel with a leaky roof. Review | ‘The Greatest Showman’ offers up a portrait of P.T. Barnum for the modern age 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Two weeks before his death, I was living with a new boyfriend in my little East Village hovel. The Jean-Michel Basquiat I knew… 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z She covered the dirt floor with a red bedsheet and surrounded the hovel with a pile of thorny branches, to keep out the men who knew she was unmarried and alone. Two friends were stuck in a refugee camp. A scholarship competition was their only way out. 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z The soccer field lies on an elevated plain with a sweeping view of the Kutupalong refugee camp: mud-walled hovels and split bamboo structures laced with open sewers. In a Rohingya Refugee Camp, Soccer Is a Joyful Escape 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z "And people say: 'I quite like my hovel'." Home sweet home: islanders stay put even when the sea invades 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Walking, stunned, from one hovel to the next, Senator Robert F. Kennedy saw conditions that rivaled what he’d seen in third-world countries. Donald Trump Seeks to Leave Americans Starving 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Thus, in the later stages of “Alien: Covenant,” we are ushered into an alchemist’s lair, halfway between a laboratory and a hovel, and dedicated, as far as I can gather, to alienology. “Alien: Covenant” and the Too-Many-Monsters Problem 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z They set up camp in these little like hovels. 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' returns, will Gina be in the precinct house? Andy Samberg speaks 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z In many cases, the articles showed, the result was overcrowded hovels for most and taxpayer-funded mansions for a connected few. Alex Tizon, Filipino-American Reporter and Memoirist, Dies at 57 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z "And people say: 'I quite like my hovel'." Home sweet home: islanders stay put even when the sea invades 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z This spontaneity meant that we missed flights, lost luggage, drove on perilous roads late at night, stayed in some cold-water hovels, and sometimes went hungry. Trespassing in Christina’s World 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Jose’s dream was to replace this hovel with a solid house made of concrete. Unsafe transport leads to death: Farmworkers 'disposable'? 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Still, I found entire families cowering in their hovels in Alemão as the fighting raged around them. Brazil Bureau Chief’s Notebook: When the Olympics Media Circus Comes to Town 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Sam, of course, pays proper homage, watching Bogart flicks in his seedy single-room-occupancy hovel. L.A. mystery 'This Last Lonely Place' undone by melodrama 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z So when I was 11 we moved to what my granny named "the hovel" in Powys, Wales. The children uprooted to live the 1970s Good Life - BBC News 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z "It was a hovel," Richards says on a recording, and the recreation captures the peeling wallpaper, mold-stained walls and unmade beds, the dirty dishes, empty beer bottles, broken eggshells and overflowing ashtrays. It's only rock 'n' roll _ but it isn't, is it? 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z “It was a hovel,” Richards says on a recording, and the recreation captures the peeling wallpaper, mold-stained walls and unmade beds, the dirty dishes, empty beer bottles, broken eggshells and overflowing ashtrays. Huge Rolling Stones exhibition offers satisfaction for fans 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z The ploughed winter earth is fallow save for one crop that sprouts like weeds: the plastic-clad hovels that run in colourful ribbons everywhere. Notes on the great Syrian exodus: ‘Epic in scale, inconceivable until you witness it’ | Richard Flanagan 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Vendors hawk cheap beer and pizza from garishly lit retail hovels that line the corridor. Inside America's worst train station 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z You live in a hovel, walk up five flights, scraping the rent. Holly Woodlawn, inspiration behind Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side, dies at 69 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z In the village of Gesteira, an elderly woman called out for help from a wrecked hovel, unreachable in the middle of a viscous swamp of mud and mining waste. Hopes Ebb for Survivors of Brazil Deluge 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z It was a form of inequality that required the peasant to live in a hovel while the lord scooped up the wealth that allowed him to build his castle. Editorials from around New England 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z Her bedding sits on its side, wet, and, who knows in such weather, in a damp, leaking hovel, how long it will take to dry? Notes on the great Syrian exodus: ‘Epic in scale, inconceivable until you witness it’ | Richard Flanagan 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z “Do they want us to go out and buy a hovel?” Chinese Billionaire Accused in U.N. Graft Scheme Is Given Home Detention 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z “The bottom line is I am not approving contracts that place families in rat-infested hovels or fire violations,” said Mr. Stringer, who, like Mr. de Blasio, is a Democrat. New York Comptroller Clashes With Mayor de Blasio Over Shelter Contracts 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z The only road is a rutted single-lane dirt track, the only existing dwelling a flimsy hunting hovel, its provenance unknown. The Making of a President 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z I am taking a print of this OBO for my work’s hovel cubicle wall for posterity. Ashes 2015: England v Australia, fourth Test, day one – live! 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Behind them, other Russian tourists were snapping pictures next to the cramped brick hovel in this small central Georgian town where the Soviet dictator was born in 1878. Georgia's Stalin museum gives Soviet version of dictator's life story 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z From his subterranean hovel, Johnny teaches Nelly how to act like his wife and how to appear like a camp survivor. Review: ‘Phoenix’ a masterful postwar drama set in Berlin 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Sheri’s courtesans are lucky too, they say, not to be struggling to save money to do something different with their futures, working in some dusty hovel off a lonely stretch of desert highway. Survival of the freakiest: how some of Nevada's brothels are staying afloat 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The roasting of flesh and the indiscriminate demolition of hovels and castles became commonplace. Zoology: Here be dragons : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z “This is the room of a widow woman,” Ms. Aziza said, gesturing to the dark two-room hovel where she lives on an abandoned construction site. Afghan Policewomen Struggle Against Culture 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Instead, she walks to a fusty, claustrophobic basement, trailer or hovel where the World Cup ski technicians are sequestered late into the night tuning skis for the world’s best racers. Where Men Attend to Skis, One Racer Prefers Technician With Mother’s Touch 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Founded by 19th century French-Canadian fur traders, the hovel against brutal Rocky Mountain winters by the 1870s boasted a hotel, a mill and shops. Fort Collins beer crafts Colorado microbrewery tourist industry 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z When we filmed her for Schoolgirl Killer, she was living in a hovel that also served as a bar, pouring home-brewed Arak to men, bringing up four small children. The Rape Victim Who Fought Back and Shamed a Nation He argued against probation too, saying it would just keep his client in the country living in a “hovel” for even longer, when all he wanted to do was to reunite with family in England. Anonymous hacking attack lands British rock guitarist in jail 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z A couple have been "fined" £100 by a Blackpool hotel they described as a "rotten stinking hovel" on travel review website Trip Advisor. Couple's hotel 'fine' for bad review 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z Dr. Fallah’s team of contact tracers pushed deep into West Point one morning, into a labyrinth of hovels and alleys that became ever narrower. Back to the Slums of His Youth, to Defuse the Ebola Time Bomb 2014-09-13T04:00:00Z “I felt like I was going to live in a monk’s hovel.” University of Iowa makes room for more dorms 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z The OED describes it as meaning "a small habitation, cabin, hovel; a narrow room." 11 words that are much older than you think 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z The boy touched his temple, hot with rage: a low-ceilinged parlor came into view, with its filthy window, further shaded by a ragged net curtain, the whole musty hovel lit by candles. Zadie Smith: “Meet the President!” 2013-08-05T04:00:00Z The city is both towering and expansive, a blend of baroque architecture, slovenly hovels and booming industry. Thief preview part one: 'It's not a sequel. It's something new' 2013-04-15T15:57:07Z Women in dust color burqas scuttle through the narrow alleys, nearly indistinguishable from the slumping mud walls of the slum’s hovels. The Other Malalas: A Pakistani Teacher's Courageous Quest to Educate Girls 2013-01-07T01:35:33Z The army offered steady pay, reading and writing lessons, and a chance to see something beyond the mud hovels in which he was born and raised. Afghan Soldier’s Journey From Friend to Killer of Americans 2013-01-04T01:48:06Z If it is pre-industrial revolution, will we be enthralled by be-smocked, forelock-tugging yokels, shire horses and the squire and his lady, completed by a facsimile of a thatched hovel and appropriate agricultural odours and noises? Letters: Sheep, chickens and the Tor - but where are The Wurzels? 2012-06-13T20:00:01Z Children as young as five years-old work in Cairo's pottery "factories", which are often nothing more than mud-brick hovels. Suffer the Children: Young Laborers Around the World 2012-06-13T02:05:00Z He was lying in a hovel in the poorest part of the city. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z The old woman saw the propriety of his suggestion; and, both entering the hovel, the door was shut. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z They were required to go, the first thing in the morning, to a hovel at a little distance from their house, where a fox was kept. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z At the same time as the Mosque was being finished, Mohammad had caused two little hovels to be built with clods of earth—"Hujrah"—leaning against the walls of the temple. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z And then, too, the hovel into which he crawls when night drives him from the streets is something unspeakable for its wretchedness and discomfort. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z Not a palatial, monumental thing that will make our homes look like hovels and turn out to be a monument for himself, for us to keep in order.” The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury 2012-04-20T02:00:07.610Z Yet in such a hamlet of hovels, hardly fit for human habitation, may be a large population. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z The one which answered the demands of this place was not a very extensive establishment; it was a little dark-looking hovel, with an exceedingly high chimney. I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success 2012-04-18T02:00:11.437Z Wherefore, like beggars, build little hovels in which to live, not as in your own, but as strangers and pilgrims in the houses of others.” A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z His home near by is a perfect mansion as compared with the hovels that press up against the wall that surrounds his property. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z They are all of loftier and more substantial construction than the miserable hovels which form the scattered hamlets of to-day—indicating, apparently, the former presence of a large and warlike population. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z They are mere huts of mud—as wretched habitations as an Irish hovel or an Indian wigwam. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z In a hovel below a harsh incline, I sat with a group of farmers who had put on their best for our visit. Can Coffee Kick-Start an Economy? 2012-04-06T19:51:45Z The humble hovels which Francis had enjoined became stately palaces, which arose in every city, rivalling or putting to shame the loftiest cathedrals and most sumptuous abbeys. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z But what are two or three days spent in a snug warm room to a man who has never known any thing better than a hovel in a sandpit? The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z Mud hovels fringe the "fair green" of this town, A spot misnamed, at every season brown, O'erspread with countless man and beast to-day, Which bellow, squeak, and shout, bleat, bray, and neigh. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z After they were gone, the miserable people returned and rebuilt their mud hovels, and tried by tilling the soil, to gain a bare subsistence. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z Both are cities, both have houses, streets, shops, churches, passers-by, palaces, hovels. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z Little do they know personally of the state of feeling which made successive generations of human beings willing to live in hovels and inhale pollution in order that they might erect those wondrous piles. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z The tug86 had done her work of saving nobly and well, and had performed it at a time when the hovelling smacks could have done nothing at all. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z I grew to loathe the squalid inn, in which I kicked my heels through the cold hours, the muddy road that ran by it, the mean row of hovels they called the village. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z Her head sunk upon her breast, her thin shawl tucked about her shoulders, her gray hair in wisps on her cheeks, she gazed in tearless grief upon the hovel which had been home to her. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Its most perfect examples may be found in the hovel as in the palace, and the effects of this diffusion of beauty may be traced both in the manners and the morals of the people. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z “Compared to the rest of those hovels it almost looks like one, at that.” Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator 2012-03-27T02:00:19.467Z Meantime the crew of the hovelling lugger are in equal, if not greater, danger. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z The smithy, the first hovel in the village, was a quarter of a mile away, and, in reason, I should have ridden to it. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z "Allow me to have the honour of conducting you to my hovel of a dwelling." Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z From some hovel, hidden among the walls, other children streamed out, with cries and contortions, to join her. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z One a wretched hovel had, Full of discord, dirt, and din, No wonder he seemed mad, Wife and children starved within. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z The hovelling lugger has generally a crew of ten men, and these receive no regular pay. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z Very little in charity with Madame, I picked my way, shivering, to the door of the stable--a mean hovel, in a line with the house, and set in a sea of mud. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z On the floor of the hovel sit two or three squalid children, splitting deal with a common knife. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z On the bank on which they stood was a single hovel of mud, fast melting under the steady downpour. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z He would earn his livelihood in the sweat of his brow, and he would carry the light of his lofty ideas into the hovels of the suffering peasantry. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z "I think so," he said slowly, his eyes wandering to the grey misty landscape, against which the poor hovels of the village stood out naked and comfortless. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Angels guard her strength and grace; In the cottage, palace, hovel,— O! no matter where the place. The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z Other represented boroughs were nearly in like condition; others could display their half score or more of decayed hovels. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z The black rock of the mountain-side softened into purple shadows against the gold of sky and sea, and in this glory the hovels and the people and the misery disappeared. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z The chimneys of some of the white clay hovels on either side of the road poured out clouds of sweetish, nauseating smoke. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z They burned a hovel or two, and stripped such as they spared, after the fashion of the day; and it had gone ill with the peasant woman who fell into their hands. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z The hovels of a small village, with one or two houses of a better size, stood dotted about the banks of the stream. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z The idea of spending a night at the miserable hovel we were leaving was enough to induce us to run a considerable risk, and we set off to make the attempt. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z But the true story of the Highlands as they are I think we learned for ourselves when we looked, as we did at Ulva, from the laird's mansion to the crofter's hovel. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z But the villages were poor and squalid, and the houses mere hovels of mud. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z I ran on through it, cursing, until the hovels of the village at length came in sight. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z What had happened behind the line of hovels, under the morning sunshine that filled the camp and rendered only more grim the fear, the suspense, the tragedy that darkened all? The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z Gradually I began to see why it was that even the guide-books tell you to come to this quiet, out-of-the-way place, made up of hovels that were once palaces.' Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z The hovels were as cheerless within as without. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z I have heard 71A sound of wailing in unnumbered hovels, And I must go down, down—I know not where— Pray for all men and women mad from famine; Pray, you good neighbours. Poems 2012-02-15T03:00:33.707Z Here and there at hovel doors in the street--which was a mean, poor place, not worthy of the name--men and women looked out at me suspiciously. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z But when some minutes had passed, and the little troop did not emerge again from the ruck of hovels which had swallowed them, Bonne began to quake. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z One man lived in a hovel and had a vote; his neighbour lived in a mansion and had no vote. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z The crofter alone is at fault; he has no shame in living in his hovel, which is scarcely fit to shelter a dog. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z It is for the faith that we have left our homes, to live in your hovels of bark and eat food which the beasts of our country would scarcely touch. Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences 2012-02-14T03:00:28.520Z But I made no remark, and in a few minutes saw the horse well stabled in a hovel which seemed to belong to a neighbour. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z The villages are clusters of mud hovels, scarcely distinguishable from the wastes, and many of them are ruined and deserted, oppressive exactions or a failure of water being common reasons for a migration. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z They are of the most primitive description—long logs lashed together, and in the middle a sort of cabin or hovel, where the women and children live. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z There was nothing by the way but broad fields of grain, which seemed broader after the wretched little patches of Skye and Harris, and large farm-houses, larger by comparison with Hebridean hovels. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z On Gawar Plain I lodged in the village houses, either in semi-subterranean hovels, in which the families live with their horses and buffaloes, or in rooms over stables. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Divorce is now a recognized presence in high life and low; and polygamy, the first-born of divorce, sits shameless in palace and in hovel. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z Within the houses or hovels the families are huddled irregularly, with all their appurtenances, and in winter the flocks and herds are in subterranean pens beneath. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z 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 He builds a cabin; and she, of this hovel, makes a happy home. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z My letters have given a faithful representation of them as dwelling with their animals in dark semi-subterranean hovels. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z For this idol he built a hut, a hovel, and at last a cathedral. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z In those hovels there were neither accommodation nor supplies, and we decided to push on. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z The cottages are very few and far between—generally a collection of little wood hovels, or "isbas," as they are called. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z Why did he do his miracles in the obscurity of the village, in the darkness of the hovel? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z In the early afternoon we reached the Kurdish village of Karabulāk, sixty mud hovels, on the flaring mud hillside, the great fodder stacks on the flat roofs alone making the houses obvious. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z They were to be satisfied with huts and hovels, with ignorance and rags, and their children must expect no more. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z I fought on for an hour, crossed what appeared to be a bridge, where there were a few mud hovels, and pressed on down a 124 narrower valley. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z In the hovel of the poor and the palace of the rich came the serpent of temptation and whispered in the American ear the terrible word "Repudiation." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z After all, a palace without affection is a poor hovel, and the meanest hut with love in it is a palace for the soul. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z It is a mere eyrie, a collection of rude stone hovels, one above the other, among which the Khan's house is distinguishable only by its balakhana and larger size. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z When the theologian governed the world, it was covered with huts and hovels for the many, palaces and cathedrals for the few. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z For many miles the only permanent village is a collection of miserable mud hovels round a forlorn caravanserai, in which travellers may find a wretched refuge from the vicissitudes of weather. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z I will trust the huts and hovels, just as soon as I will the mansions and palaces. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z People unable even to support themselves fill the tenements, the huts and hovels with children. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z Some zaptiehs had the humanity to offer me the shelter of a hovel nearly buried in the snow, and made a fire and some coffee, and I waited there till the wind moderated. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z They were the philosophers of poverty and rags, of huts and hovels, of ignorance and faith. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z A row of reed huts, another of Arab tents, and a hovel opposite the gateway, where a man with two guns within reach sells food, tobacco, and hair ropes, make up this place of horror. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z The miser, who lives in a hovel, wears rags, and hoards his gold, is a perpetual curse. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z "You remind me," he replied, "of the story of the Irishman, who was told that his hovel was about to fall, and I answer with him, Let it fall, it is not mine!" The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z To his comfort, when the tempest had moved away, he saw a light in the distance; and soon after, reached a mean peasant hovel, which afforded him but little consolation. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z Out of the shadows of a ramshackle hovel's front yard dived a monstrous shape that hurled itself ferociously on the passing collie. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z The hovels, so ingeniously constructed, are shared indiscriminately 15 by the Arabs and their animals, and crowds of women and children emerged from them as we passed. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z I entered one of the hovels, where several women were employed cooking a meal. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z One of the most touching effects of the scene was the childlike simplicity with which the poor of Galicia, coming from such vile hovels, felt themselves at home in the dwelling of their saint. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z "I" in the case of the second child may mean a creature that lives in a dark, filthy hovel and walks every day through narrow streets, reeking with garbage. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z The hovels were thatched for the most part, but here and there a square white-washed house, with a flat roof, overtopped the rest. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z It is a miserable hamlet of low windowless mud hovels, with uneven mud floors, one or two feet lower than the ground outside, built in yards with ruinous walls, and full of heaps and holes. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z At last I saw a light which came from the window of a rude hovel. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z The streets, devoid of business activity, swarm with vigorous mendicants, who have no better shift, when times grow hard, than to deform the children who are born to them like kittens in their mud-walled hovels. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z But the man is not known who has unassailable proofs to show of this Brighthelm’s having so honoured the fisher-folk’s hovels with his name. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z Shoemaker in a damp hovel, with mahogany furniture, quite handsome. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Usually people come out of the villages in numbers as we arrive, but we passed group after group of ruinous hovels without seeing a creature. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z He then led them to a miserable hovel, containing only a few earthen pots and three pieces of eight, wrapped in faded finery, buried under the hearth. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z There are hovels and there are splendid little places tucked between crumbling buildings. Housing market blooms in Cuban provinces 2012-01-09T19:50:46Z I take it your accommodations would have been somewhat different from what you can have in that confined hovel of yours.' Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z I would enter court and hovel, Forgetful of mien or dress, With a treasure that all should ask for, An errand that all should bless. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z The houses are extremely poor; we should call them hovels, built of bricks or dried mud. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z In this forbidding hovel these doughty emigrants braved the exposure of the varying seasons for an entire year. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z In that part of the garden which adjoins the Lagune, called Rodrigo das Freitas, stands a common mud hovel, with broken windows, and doors hanging by the hinges. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z And in this tendency, which is everywhere conspicuous from the palace to the hovel, there is some good; it is not wholly evil. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z At such times they are obliged to make a small hovel for themselves at some distance from the other tents. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations 2011-12-26T03:00:13.520Z The hearth-books of 1685 show that, of the houses of the kingdom, five hundred and fifty-four thousand had only one chimney—they were mere hovels. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z When Monsieur Faisand� appeared, I stretched myself out on a stone bench in front of the hovel. Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z The houses, which had been mud hovels higher up the river, now looked more substantial, and were each surrounded by high walls enclosing shady orange gardens. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z A wind screen or hovel is advisable for rough nights, and some sort of roof is necessary to protect the crown from the weather. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z A prince is a prince either in a hovel or in a palace! Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z These complaints go upon the same principle that made it a merit in Epictetus, the Greek philosopher, to have had no door to his hovel. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z Its houses little better than thatched hovels or mud huts. The Boyhood of Great Inventors 2011-12-05T03:00:46.233Z When the train did start, some forty minutes after scheduled time, it jolted along in a laborious fashion at the rate of about six miles an hour, stopping at every roadside hovel. Amusement Only 2011-12-04T03:00:06.637Z Not a single Cuban will remain in this island, because we shoot all those we find in the fields, on the farms, and in every hovel. The History of Cuba, vol. 3 2011-11-28T03:00:26.510Z "Someone will pay him rent enough for it, though we can't; but we can get a hovel somewhere." The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z A woman lay in a hovel Mean, dismal, gasping for breath; One friend alone was beside her: The name of him was—Death. The Coo-ee Reciter 2011-11-20T03:00:16.890Z It was a hovel, growing, as it were, out of the hill-side; roofed with rough slabs of slaty stone; without a door or window; surrounded by quagmires of ordure, and dirt of every description. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z Many of Mumbai’s slum dwellers, some 60 percent of the city’s 21 million people, are living in hovels that suddenly command high prices. India Ink: In Mumbai, the $50,000 Slum Shack 2011-11-15T06:53:46Z From this square several streets branch off, and enter a crowd of wooden hovels irregularly huddled together, and covering a large space of ground. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z Another picture features a tattered green tarp over what appears to be a hovel for the homeless. NY foreclosure firm apologizes for mocking homeless; advocates for poor offer to educate 2011-11-02T17:43:45Z For the sake of her orphan children, For money to buy them food, She had slaved in the dismal hovel And wasted her womanhood. The Coo-ee Reciter 2011-11-20T03:00:16.890Z It was not until after the victory that he ventured to send back the ambitious pair to their hovels. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z The contrast between the dirty and neglected old hovels of the Ainu and the clean, spruce, and somewhat finikin houses of the Japanese is very striking. 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 The tenants of these wretched hovels exhibit the same miserable appearance both in person and manners. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z So our bourgeois-gentilhomme will permit the Visconte de Charrebourg—ha, ha—to live in this stinking hovel for the few years that remain to him; but, par bleu, that is fortune's doing, not his. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z Opposite it, he came upon another miserable cluster of hovels, the abode of pestilence, want and superstition, and there found that Saul had passed through the village at high noon that day. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z But the homeless people who lived in these hovels are gone. N.Y.C. Makes Progress Helping Bronx?s Chronic Homeless Adults 2011-10-18T01:30:28Z The village of Ibunge, where formerly the largest market of the district was held weekly, now consists of a collection of hovels, eight of which are habitable, and the market is all but dead.” The Crime of the Congo 2011-10-13T02:00:47.603Z Palaces, houses, hovels, goods, all should be pulled down at every risk of individual property to stop the conflagration. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z The last thing before "turning in," he lights his lantern and repairs to the ox hovel. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z The commotion centered before a hovel, a tragedy in sounds, ghastly because the night made it unembodied. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z How grim the woods, the tower how pale; The landscape colourless and cold, While all the hovel foul and frail, The ragged thatch and battered sail, Are gorgeous in the sunset gold! A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z He dined there and slept, in his clothes of course and always at the menace of a telephone, in a draughty hovel next door. Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z It was a miserable collection of hovels, situated in a narrow valley, yet it boasted of a small mosque with a slender minaret. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z Having completed our own cabin, we proceed next to construct a hovel for the oxen, which are yet behind. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z But the column of sand disintegrated before a hovel, and became a snaky woman-shape that disappeared into the dark door of the house. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z "Women in tiny hovels have their arms full of rosy dimpled darlings," sighed Queen Rosewhite. Minor Poems Little Classics, Vol. 15 2011-09-29T02:00:16.533Z He had no difficulty in finding the coffee house, a crumbling and evil-looking hovel squeezed between a sooty factory building and a squalid tenement. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z It produces palaces -- but for the worker, hovels. How Marx Came to Discover the Alienation of Labor: Mary Gabriel 2011-09-22T00:23:03Z On the whole they are poor, and live in thatched hovels, plastered both within and without with a mixture of clay, cow-dung, and straw. Turkey Peeps at Many Lands 2011-09-21T02:00:31.190Z “It seems a waste of valuable time to have come here at all,” declared Polly, holding a handkerchief to her nose as they passed a dreadful hovel where unkempt children played and fought. Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z There is no need of too carefully inquiring as to what is passing in hovels. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z His free and easy mode of conduct, unmarked by the slightest effort at concealment, afforded a protection which he could not have found in the shabbiest hovel and under the most elaborate disguise. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z It was the interior of the hovel boat-house on the Seine. Burning of the Brooklyn Theatre A thrilling personal experience! Brooklyn's horror. Wholesale holocaust at the Brooklyn, New York, Theatre, on the night of December 5th, 1876 2011-09-13T02:00:36.647Z Children wear these charms on their caps; and the prows of boats, the roofs of houses, cages of birds, and even hovels have a bunch of garlic suspended with strings. Turkey Peeps at Many Lands 2011-09-21T02:00:31.190Z I and the Beggar-Man, who lived in the poor little hovel with you, are one and the same. Snowdrop and Other Tales 2011-09-12T02:00:31.553Z Some hovels, built by beggars, loomed up unexpectedly after he had gone half-a-mile or so. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z Princely and mysterious gifts poured into garrets and hovels in a way that caused simple-minded 22 people to believe in a return of the day of miracles. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z Her habitation was a rude hovel some few hundred paces distant from the hut of the Cripple, on the margin of St. Jerome's creek, and within gunshot of the rear of the Black Chapel. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z I saw several peasants dragged from their hovels and shot, and the women treated with unnameable barbarity. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z We are in this hovel; you see it. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z Now it threw over the scene a great silver light in which the hovels stood out like black islands. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z "Allah! send the English soon," wailed a Turkish widow in a hovel in Stamboul, where she was living with her five starving children. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z To this hovel, after her daily work was done, she retired to pass the night, leaving her master or patron to that solitude which he seemed to prefer to any society. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z In such a hovel a soldier could pretty nearly suffocate himself in ten minutes, the stones being heated in a wood fire outside. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z In the brickmaker’s hovel they heard something of how the very poor brought up children, or failed to bring them up, in Dickens’s time. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z On a recent morning here, a stream of Haitian migrants walked out from their hovels in the brush to fill a church and register to leave under the International Organization for Migration’s program. Dominican Republic Grows Weary of Haitian Refugees 2011-08-31T04:25:09Z Scotch inns were as bad as the roads; “mean hovels with dirty rooms, dirty food, dirty attendants.” Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z An ancient man in the black-and-white costume comes out of a hovel of a cottage. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z Two of them consisted of less than thirty hovels, and were not half inhabited. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z I need not describe the scene that followed: that night they left the hovel which had served as a grave for their misfortunes. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX 2011-08-27T02:00:23.817Z We leave innumerable populations steeped in misery, seven or eight individuals living in the same infected hovel. The Pros and Cons of Vivisection 2011-08-23T02:00:31.033Z Indeed, except for the few hovels at Tecate, the houses for the rest of the way were hardly more numerous. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z Russia had magnificent cities before Paris was more than a collection of hovels on a small island of the Seine. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Most of the troops we passed had tents, and some were hutted in hovels made of pine-boughs, thatched with the leaves or twigs of those trees. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z They live in wretched hovels of mud and straw, are clothed in rags, and subsist chiefly on potatoes. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z For the past decade, war widows have converged here and built by hand their mud hovels on a slope above a cemetery in an eastern neighborhood of the Afghan capital. Afghan widows form community on Kabul hill 2011-08-15T00:40:58Z From Tia Juana east to Tecate, where you find half a dozen hovels, there is hardly a house and not a spear of grass for thirty miles. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z They may be in the mine, on the mountain, in the hovel or the palace, wherever a man notices what other people have not seen. The Key to Success 2011-08-13T02:00:28.033Z “She will find a prince in a hovel some day,” 94 said Dinah. Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life 2011-08-09T02:00:30.317Z There are here many hovels, as well as a better class of residences. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z For the past decade, hundreds of Afghan war widows have convened on a slope known as Tapaye Zanabad, building mud hovels by hand and living as a community of sisters. Afghan widows form community on Kabul hill 2011-08-15T00:40:58Z A rude hovel with mud walls, and a single room, is all they aspire to, in the way of a dwelling. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z The hovel is as regally roofed as the palace, the rudest fence is a hedge of pearl, finer than a wall of marble, and the meanest wayside weed is a white flower of fairyland. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z Did they not have to pay for the tenancy of their miserable hovels to his steward, who lived in the castle itself? The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z The poor live, and have always lived, cheek by jowl with the rich: a palace in the Ghetto and a hovel in the Corso have each existed without offence. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z On the heath, in the wilderness, in the wood--thus may you all die as I am dying; may your house fall as my hovel fell. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z I remember that one night I was greatly disturbed by the feeling that my neighbor in the garret had set the miserable hovel on fire. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z Those thoughts, and kind words, and remembrances, that fly back and forth, hundreds of miles, and keep the poorest hovel all a-glow. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z It's such a miserable hovel, I hardly like you to see it.' Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z It originated in a mud hovel belonging to a fellah; his wife had spilled some oil on the hearth, and the flames leaping up had caught the low thatch, which immediately burst into a blaze. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z The manor courts are still held in a thatched hovel near it, which appears like an overgrown p. 159pig-stye. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z On Christmas day the winter broke with great severity and soon the hospitals, which were mere hovels unsupplied with beds, were crowded with the dying. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z The old coxswain tried to reason with her; but all to no purpose, she clung to her wretched hovels and held on her own way. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z Opposite to where she sat was a doorway leading into another compartment of the hovel. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z Rich and poor, high and low alike, left court and camp, palace or hovel. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z Though the town boasts many capital residences, yet, encumbered by a number of mean hovels even in its principal situations, and deficient in regulations of cleanliness, it fails to create any idea of importance. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z The settlers were, besides, suffering from dysentery, fever, and other complaints, brought on by an unaccustomed mode of life, in dwellings that were mere hovels, and subjection to the inclemency of the rainy season. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z Why turn the lamp of knowledge into my hovel? The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z His road lay through narrow streets, crowded with people, and as he passed down one of them a veiled woman cried to him from the door of a hovel. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z Where stood the lonely hovel, now stands the commodious and comfortable farm house. The History of Peru 2011-06-27T02:01:04.487Z Nothing but a dark hovel, and strange Indian faces. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z The prospect of passing the night in a miserable hovel was disagreeable enough; but what remedy had we with a postmaster, who opening all his stables, showed that he had no horses? Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Then, my mates, before you commence pulling down, you ought to decide upon what sort of a commonplace hovel you are going to build up. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z One of her scholars, a youth of unusual intelligence, finding himself clean, observes himself to be in strong contrast with his mother's hovel, in which filth is just kept clear of fever point. Modern Society 2011-06-23T02:00:27.897Z To his very great surprise he saw, standing in a corner, a complete suit of European armor, made of tin, it is true, but a sufficiently bewildering “find” in a Goojer hovel. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z He is equally at home in the palace and the hovel, and is as ready to attend a battle as a banquet. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z I swear to thee, dearest Mercedes, that thou alone hast my whole heart—that with thee, I could be contented in a hovel, and that without thee I should be miserable on a throne. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z He lived alone in a miserable hovel, and on the scantiest fare. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z The lower orders did not all live in hovels, some of them lived in mansions. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z It was a mosque that stood in a garden, bounded by a high and stout wall and protected by jungle and mud hovels. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z Her father and mother, those wretches who lived in a hovel, and smelled of the gutter! Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z Forge was with me and said that he had traced me to the hovel and had rescued me with the aid of the Canton police. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z What would the slaves in Brazil think of these thatched hovels? Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z Farai napped in his shack, a 7-by-10-foot hovel, its space cramped with a lumpy bed, a tiny table, old paint cans used to store water and clothes piled in a wicker basket. Magazine Preview: Watching the Murder of an Innocent Man 2011-06-02T14:40:59Z He had expected a mere hovel, such as he had read about. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z I escaped from the hovel, and reached my home. Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z I made some verses, one day, as I waited in a hovel for the rain to hold up. Spinning-Wheel Stories 2011-05-28T02:00:23.707Z As a result their huts were like hovels. Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border 2011-05-26T02:00:20.467Z But, glancing upward, in my deep distress— Myself so small an atom of my race— I saw, above the dreadful hovels shining, A single star. Virginia, A Tragedy And Other Poems 2011-05-26T02:00:17.117Z From hovel to hut the word went, and men, women and children, unkempt and curious, ran down to the beach to await the approach of the guard. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z The second and third rewards were for the arrest of, or information concerning, the fellow calling himself “Silly Charlie,” and the parties who had occupied the hovel up to the night of the murder. Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z Finally I reached a clump of mud hovels; and this, I was told, was Varreds. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 2011-05-20T02:00:28.363Z They do not all of them lead a wandering life, but many of them construct hovels of the branches of trees. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages 2011-05-19T02:00:06.517Z An old woman lives in this hovel,42 and with her a little boy and girl, the children of a beggar who died and left these orphans perishing with hunger. The Parent's Assistant Stories for Children 2011-05-18T02:00:12.733Z A man, bearing in his arms the motionless form of a woman, paused later that night in the shadow of a low stone hovel, near the lower gate of the Mount. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z You may thank your stars for that, and for your silence at the hovel. Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z From the mud hovels of the village of Ashlett wimpled women and rough-haired children looked interestedly at the two runners, the layman in his travel-stained apparel and the monk in his sombre garb. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z These noble bands of Christians enter fearlessly the most loathsome hovels, and, wrestling with filth and disease, in many cases come off victorious. Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera 2011-05-17T02:00:17.310Z There was a cottage, or rather a hovel, which the maiden had passed on her way to the well, and which she had shunned. Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-16T02:00:19.270Z It was an unfrequented by-road, leading nowhere in particular, except to the hovels; and Chattaway had therefore full benefit of the solitude. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Fully convinced that behind that which was visible at the Francoise hovel, lay a mystery, Vernet resolved upon fathoming that mystery, and he set to work with rare vigor. Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z He lived in the famous “Grand Salon,” in a miserable hut of planks, the most filthy hovel imaginable. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z For all shelter the condemned found a few dilapidated hovels; for all furniture, a saucepan and a hammock. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z That stalking spectre of pestilence, tuberculosis, had laid its devastating hand on every nation; it invades the palace as well as the hovel, and the youth of the people are its surest prey. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z The man Pennet lived in a hovel, one of many, about a mile and a half away. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Until I saw his face in that hovel yonder, I had never seen it.” Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z While the employers lived in gorgeous palaces, the workers found themselves, for the most part, crowded like cattle into the filthy hovels that ordinarily constitute the greater part of the steel towns. The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons 2011-05-07T02:00:25.193Z "By the cross of Christ! peasant, if you betake not yourself speedily to thy hovel, I will hurl thee with mine own hand from the cliff upon its roof." Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z The appearance in my poor hovel of the rich art collector Van Spreckdal, a judge in the criminal court, made a strong impression on me. The Mysterious Sketch 2011-05-03T02:00:14.907Z Farmhouses were scattered within view, had the boy on the stile chosen to look at them; a few gentlemen's houses, and many cottages and hovels. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z You may begin with the hovel, and trace shoddy all through society, even up to the House of Peers. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z The conditions of employment, the home life, the misery in the hovels of the steel workers is beyond description. The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons 2011-05-07T02:00:25.193Z A hovel here is preferable to a palace in America! The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z After an hour's rest at the Casa Inglese, a miserable hovel at the foot of the Cone, we started, wrapped in plaids, the cold being intense. John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir 2011-04-18T02:00:10.453Z It was near a small village toward the west coast of Ireland where Elinor’s relatives lived, and the first impression of the straggling, cobble-paved street flanked with wretched hovels was hardly cheerful. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z The house where the circumnavigator was born was little better than a clay hovel of two rooms. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z There was another epochal effect of the New Deal, which was the rescue of a generation from the despair of the "Hoovervilles" -- breadlines and sharecropper hovels. The fight that just won't die 2011-04-10T15:01:00Z The "Jolly Herrings" was a low hovel of an inn down in the town. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z Coracle's house is but a hovel, no better than the cabin of a backwoods squatter. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z It suffices to say that I and Luke and a dozen willing fellows worked our hardest until dark, visiting every farmstead and every hovel which remained standing on the lower levels. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z Much of her spare time was occupied in searching through the lanes and hovels for those unblessed with religious influence, and bringing them in to the Sabbath-school. Our Katie 2011-04-04T02:00:10.637Z Calamity brings all ranks to a level, and the monarch exiled from his throne, can sympathise with the peasant driven from his hovel. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z This was in character with the wretched mud hovels then occupied by the labouring population, not half so good as many pigsties are now-a-days. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z "Why, it was a dirty-looking hovel, with Indian corn hung all over it." Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z A little way off stood a row of buildings—three low hovels of stone and half a dozen wooden huts of different sizes. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z And without waiting for either the assent or refusal of the individual thus solicited, the robber seized him by the wrist; and half led, half dragged, him over the threshold of the hovel. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Their habitations are holes in the ground, rock-shelters, or caves, or lately a few hovels of mud and foliage at the foot of the hills. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Contemptuously curious, he asked the child’s name and was told, “He is the son of a beggar woman, probably a leper, that lives in a hovel near the gate,” whereat he laughed and rode on. Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant 2011-03-28T02:00:27.040Z The plain which lay outstretched before him, rising and falling like a vast prairie, was unmarked by habitation—not a hovel, not a hut to be seen. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z But there is no denying that our laws are doing all that can be done to drive them into squalid hovels, and thence into the penitentiaries or the poor houses.’ The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z In front of a dilapidated hovel upon Jarret’s Heath, both he and his troop were brought to a sudden stand, on hearing a strange noise which appeared to proceed from the ruin. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z The ruins of the old hovel on the banks of the Goodwood in which the Duke expired, are, or recently were, still in existence. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z The robbers kept close in their caves and hovels, but the cold nearly killed us. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z I drew the palace of the gipsy queen—a wretched thatched hovel with a mud floor, but royalty was absent on a tinkering expedition. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z There were dirty alleys and mud-puddles and dingy little hovels around it, but the coming of the Queen was to make it gorgeous. In the Days of Queen Victoria 2011-03-17T02:00:14.783Z Scarthe gave ready assent; and in another second had planted himself, on one of the two dilapidated chairs which the hovel contained. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Living for weeks in a sprawling shantytown on mud flats in Anacostia and in tents and hovels near the U.S. Frank Buckles, last U.S. vet?eran of World War I, laid to rest at Arlington 2011-03-15T21:42:00Z Indeed, we had no particular desire to enter, as it appeared a wretched hovel, though the poor horses pawed piteously against the door, and seemed to crave admittance. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z Each described the litany of woes of their parents — 40 years of work and they were consigned to hovels. Veering From Peaceful Models, Libya?s Youth Revolt Turns Toward Chaos 2011-03-13T04:58:42Z But think you that men who live in hovels can respect men who preach in palaces as followers of the man of Nazareth? Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays 2011-03-12T03:00:23.783Z There’s the ruined hovel he spoke about: and this I take to be Jarret’s Heath. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z So naturally the labourers and their families live in the most wretched of all the wretched hovels, in want, discomfort and peril of disease. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z The maiden saw that the tenant of that hovel was not within it, and guessed but too easily that he was at that moment ensconced at his mysterious work in the haunted chamber. The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z And in the vast plain, with their ragged eyes Of windows patched, the suffering hovels watch The worn-out mill the bleak horizon notch,— The tired mill turning, turning till it dies. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z Come into the hovels of wretched, diseased hearts and leprous souls! Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-09T03:00:44.777Z It was Captain Scarthe, and his confidant Withers, who were approaching the hovel. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z I have been in the pestilential hovels of our great manufacturing cities, where life was corrupted in every possible mode, from the malaria of the sewer to the poison of the gin-bottle. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z Bruce, don’t you recollect the wretched pig-sties of hovels that stood in that place?” The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z It was a very cold morning, when I arrived in sight of the hovel, that contained all I loved most dear on earth. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z Again, in unsettled weather a fine day is often wasted by journeying up in the afternoon to some chalet, or hovel, merely to enjoy the pleasure of returning the following morning in the rain. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z As they arrived in front of the hovel, the leader halted—commanding the others to follow his example. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z I have been in sheds of the peasant, worse than the hovel of the Russian, where eight squalid, dirty, boorish creatures were to be kept alive by eight shillings per week, irregularly paid. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z The hovels are dotted in groups of threes and fours in every corner where one would not expect to find them. The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z I afterwards learnt, that my brother-in-law had died some time before; and that his wife immediately afterwards had gone away from the hovel to join some of her own relatives, who lived near the border. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z It was not, of course, that Castalia Kilfinane did not know that thatched hovels are frequently comfortless, ill-ventilated, "the noted haunt of" earwigs, and limited in the accommodation necessary for a genteel family. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z Even cottage would be too dignified a name for the wooden hovel, in which the woodman and his family habitually found shelter from rain and wind. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Having made your way through the passage, you find yourself in a space varying in size with the number of houses, hutches, or hovels it contains. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z She passed his hovel, a mere tenement of mud, with a thatched roof, green with moss and stained with yellow lichen. The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z About the hour they reckoned upon, Tomkins's cart made its appearance, and they sallied out from the hovel where they had concealed themselves. Christmas Stories 2011-02-27T03:00:31.413Z The reception that we experienced at the hands of the virago who owned this comfortless hovel, had been neither hospitable nor flattering. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z And with this injunction, the gigantic deer-stealer squeezed himself through the narrow doorway of his hovel; and, turning in the direction of Stone Dean, strode off under the shadowy boughs of the Wapsey’s Wood beeches. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Out of this space there are other narrow passages, sometimes leading to other similar hovels. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z No, no; she’ll never venture to set so much as her foot in one of them dirty hovels that I saw down there in Wiltshire.” The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z The harbor still offers shelter from storms; the coast repels the surge: but a few hovels only mark the spot which so much treasure was lavished to fortify, so much heroism to conquer. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z Many a weary hour was passed in listening to tales of real or counterfeit maladies, which were daily recounted in the hovel at Alio Amba. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Thus hoary tradition, antique error, sits warmed and comforted, a welcome guest, alike in palace and in hovel, while Truth, a pilgrim, hungry and cold, without stands shivering in the frosty air. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z It invades every recess of domestic life, infects its food, its clothing, its drink, its very atmosphere, and pursues the hireling, from the hovel to the poor-house, the prison and the grave. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z Tersous is in some parts handsomely built, in others it was disfigured by wretched hovels, whilst masses of putrifying vegetable and animal matter were all that met the eye or assailed the nostril. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z These Arabs had various haunts among the hovels and sheds, the piles of lumber and rubbish, that deface the water-side of every growing and unfinished city. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z At least, Nan, before she left the car, had seen the flutter of a child’s skirt at the door of the hovel. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z Her first visit was to the hovel of Mother Mandarin, for there she knew he was wont to take refuge when in London. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z Forty years before, her husband had emigrated, and built a hovel, and made a little clearing on the edge of the lake. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z "I suppose the villain would have confined us in some hovel, under guard of these miscreants, while he negotiated with my father with all the odds in his favor," Miss Margie commented. Brother Against Brother The War on the Border 2011-02-09T03:00:46.430Z Coracle’s house is but a hovel, no better than the cabin of a backwoods squatter. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z In a moment she was at the door of the hovel. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z Others began arriving and started building cardboard hovels under its dilapidated structure, until more than 300 people were living there in a makeshift slum without sanitation. Spain's salad growers are modern-day slaves, say charities 2011-02-07T18:00:04Z The conditions under which the workers live will not bear very close inspection; some of the hovels in which they live are not fit for human habitation. From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography 2011-02-06T03:01:01.497Z In fact, they were little better than hovels. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z She found the two women almost dead with fright, crouching in the darkest corner of the hovel. Tales from Spenser; Chosen from the Faerie Queene 2011-02-06T03:00:52.580Z It was a mere hovel, abutting against a rock, and in its dreary solitude seemed the last refuge of direst poverty. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z Such a man deserves what he gets, it is true, live he in a mansion or a hovel. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z Scores of the hovels in which the workers live they are compelled to nail up sacks to keep the wind and water out. From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography 2011-02-06T03:01:01.497Z For the sake of a widow whose hovel stood on this island the Commission consented to build a little bridge. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z The contrast between the elaborate Park station and the hovels that serve for stations at Elandsfontein and Bramfontein, is too absurd for words. Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa 2011-01-26T03:00:28.560Z I saw her a few days back coming home at daybreak; she had passed the night in a hovel where neither you nor I would have taken shelter in a storm. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z We lived in a hovel," he continued, "down by the water, opposite Greenwich, and sometimes in a half-decayed barge on the river which was anchored some twenty yards from shore. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z There was a deserted log camp here, apparently used the previous winter, with its "hovel" or barn for cattle. Canoeing in the wilderness 2011-01-19T03:00:23.683Z Instead, they will be met by a traditional stone barn - or, as one of the exhibition's curators describes it, a hovel. Art of the shed 2011-01-18T02:33:57Z In the Southern extremity of America the Fuegians survive without the protection of clothes, or of any building worthy to be called a hovel. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z Wretched hovels had been pulled down, the inmates of which in a helpless state of fever and nakedness were left by the roadside for days. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z "I should have fared much better beneath God's bright sky, than in your nasty smoky hovel." Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z “Bears?” echoed “Push Charlie,” appearing with his pitchfork at the hovel door. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z "It's a Westmorland hovel and that would do for him," he says. Art of the shed 2011-01-18T02:33:57Z The makeshift hovel is made of bricks and cinder blocks, topped with a piece of corrugated metal. Iraq needs billions to meet growing housing shortage 2011-01-12T14:11:25Z The scenes inside the cabins were even more horrible; husbands lay for a week in the same hovels with the bodies of their wives and children. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z In the poorest hovels there were men skilled in a fine recitation. Irish Nationality 2011-01-11T03:00:30.560Z But a moment later “Push Charlie” stepped clear of the hovel and sniffed with canine eagerness. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z The cabins were deserted in an instant; and five minutes later, when the overseer came round to gather his drove of human cattle, he found empty hovels. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z It stood in one of the foulest parts of the city, just back of a narrow alley, and all around it were clustered wretched-looking hovels. The Red Miriok 2011-01-04T03:01:16.847Z More than ever, the homes were filthy hovels shared with swine, the beds litters of dirty straw, the dresses rags, the food the potato, while there was frequent dearth and sometimes famine. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z "In the coolest hovel of Saint Pierre," was his invariable answer. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z The cookee sped in the other direction towards the hovel with as great alacrity. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z We are peasants!—things to be despised, to be kicked, to be trodden under foot, things that have no property, and that can have no merits, things like those which inhabit the hovels around us. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z But at last the owner of the hovel removed a broken shutter from an upper window, and thrusting out his head, growled a malediction upon the person disturbing him. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z Without more ado I began groping about in this moonlit hovel to discover these utensils. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z They found a home - a hovel more akin to the time of Dickens than the 21st Century - with no gas, no electricity, and with candlesticks on the window sill. Elderly poverty 2010-12-28T09:40:18Z His first duty as chanticleer was to wake “Icicle Ike” and “Push Charlie,” the teamsters, whose hungry charges were stamping impatient hoofs in the hovel. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z I am free to confess that this is the gloomiest side of the picture, for there were other houses in Garatsh besides the miserable hovels of the peasantry. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z The cottages where these poor people had to live and do this weaving were shocking hovels. The Life of Roger Langdon Told by himself. With additions by his daughter Ellen. [With a preface by H. Clifton Lambert.] 2010-12-21T22:55:56.210Z It was in this negligent attire that I regarded my antagonist, and devoutly hoped the while that my little Cynthia was still sobbing among the hay in the hovel. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z It was a wretched hovel; so unusually dark when she opened the door, that she called to old Betty Griffith, but getting no answer she entered the room. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z It was as though one of the docile Dobbins of the hovel had suddenly perked up ears and tail and begun to play the part of a beast of prey. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Some days it leaves its hovel without an umbrella even when the weather forecast says there's a 23% chance of rain. The Fiver 2010-08-18T14:19:00Z But many citizens here, particularly the poor who cobble their hovels from rusty metal and scrap wood, resent the estimated five million foreigners who have crossed the border looking for work in Africa’s largest economy. South Africa Braces for New Attacks on Immigrants 2010-07-10T00:36:00Z On stepping out of the hovel into the yard I found my antagonist was surrounded by three or four of the farm yokels, and moreover was stripped to the waist. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z I am sitting in a sweaty hovel that is the Mullick home on a sliver of a road in a crammed neighbourhood in Calcutta. Grisly tradition 2010-06-03T04:00:00Z Tommy Eye, teamster, stumbling towards the hovel for the early foddering, came upon him, and stopped and stared in utter amazement. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z With the sun shining and the birds singing as the Rumour Mill left the two-up, two-down square panelled wattle-and-daub hovel we call home this morning, there was a discernible spring in our step. Football transfer rumours: Karim Benzema and David Silva to Manchester United? 2010-04-13T08:22:00Z A stylist in a hovel applies hair extensions. Quake Accentuated a Chasm That Has Long Defined Haiti 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z It was broad day, and the misty morning sun was struggling in through numerous chinks in the roof and walls of the hovel. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z “I work for my mother each day now, so that we may eat,” she said, pointing to the bags of charcoal they sell in front of their hovel. With Haitian Schools in Ruins, Children Are in Limbo 2010-03-06T17:00:00Z The camps were cheerless, the doors of main camp, cook camp, and hovel were open, and the snow had drifted in. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z A new immigrant’s hovel, a clock hung still in its box, near a faded family picture from a faraway home. 2010-01-31T05:21:00Z He found his father almost bedridden—a boarder at half-a-crown a-week in a miserable hovel, the occupants of which were as poor as their parish lodger. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 Here the brickmakers lived gregariously, each hovel containing as many as it would hold. A Double Knot I am resolved now that your lucky star shines over these hovels, lad. The Great Mogul But the old man kept steadily on, peering to right and left, searching with his eyes nook and cross-defile, until at the southern mouth of the Notch they came to Durfy’s hovel. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Dr. Cullen, who became, as is well known, a giant in the profession, first attracted public attention from the act that he was often seen coming out of the hovels of the poor. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician Long ago the miners were evicted from the company's wretched hovels. Labor and Freedom It’s a wretched collection of hovels and surly men and drabs of women and unkempt children, the poorest of poor-whites. The Valiants of Virginia Then I will take up my quarters in the hovel on the island until something turns up. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 He did not take his baleful gaze from Dwight Wade, who had gone apart, and was leaning against the mouldering walls of the Durfy hovel. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Rising at the first dawn of day, they toil and labour with weary limbs, till night releases them and sends them to their wretched hovels. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 A similar note came from the depths of the hovel. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 Beneath the thatches of their hovels small The terror dwells of feeling It is nigh. Poems of Emile Verhaeren During the day they will be with me, either in my boat or elsewhere; and, at night, they shall sleep near me in the hovel. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 The “Busters,” nudging each other and growling half-humorous comment, began to sift out of the yard of the Durfy hovel, and lounge back along the trail towards the Jerusalem camp. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z She had been used to worse in her mother's ruinous hovel under the roof of the fig-tree. Barbarossa and Other Tales For these hard-working people, though living in hovels and wearing clothing a tramp would almost disdain, were frugal, and each and all had something saved for a rainy day. Rockhaven They fly toward the forests across the night: And in their passage the fires exhume The hovels and huts from their folds of gloom, Setting them suddenly all alight. Poems of Emile Verhaeren In the midst of the orchard was to be seen the hovel, with the thatched roof, into which Martial had expressed his intention to retire with Fran�ois and Amandine. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 “Get into that hovel and look after your horses.” King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Mrs. ——, curious to know who the writer could be, called at the address given in the letter, which proved to be a miserable hovel in one of the back slums of London. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I The house was a hovel almost; two little children barefooted and bareheaded played under a tree, and inside a woman was singing. Rockhaven There was no more night, for carbon and incandescent lamps had stabbed the night so that any hovel was brighter than the average day. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories He was on the verge of advising Irene to seek shelter in some remote hovel which their guide could surely recommend when Fate took control of affairs. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 The old man slowly came away from the hovel, his nose in the air, as though he were sniffing for inspiration. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z "Well, mother, it is quite certain that we four cannot live on the interest of a thousand pounds unless we go into a hovel and live on bread and water." Maori and Settler A Story of The New Zealand War The houses, in general, are little better than hovels, and the gardens around them are neglected and forlorn. Pioneering in Cuba A Narrative of the Settlement of La Gloria, the First American Colony in Cuba, and the Early Experiences of the Pioneers "But you are accustomed also to visit the sick, and the hovels of poverty are certainly not attractive." The Progressionists, and Angela. She seemed a coarse creature and the place was such a hovel that the girls were sorry they had come. Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School Those of the poor were mere hovels, which resembled the sties and kennels of pigs and dogs rather than the abodes of men. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II |
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