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    hovel


    1. revealing a shabby hovel of a place that reeked of decay and mould


    2. So, instead of creeping about I took a deep breath and bellowed out his name into the nearest hovel which caused a rattled flock of partridges to explode and clatter into the air right in front of my face almost knocking me over in their escape


    3. The hovel was open and a group of small multilegged animals was silently prowling thru it, picking at crumbs


    4. able to leave their miserable hovel and head west to


    5. movement from within the little hovel and the lamp inside


    6. hovel that was the home of Guillaume Leclercq


    7. But compare the spacious palace and great wardrobe of the one, with the hovel and the few rags of the other, and you will be sensible that the difference between their clothing, lodging, and household furniture, is almost as great in quantity as it is in quality


    8. In actuality, he faced the broken wall of a hovel


    9. If you had fifty drachmai to your name, you wouldn’t have to rent a hovel in the worst quarter of Polis


    10. We moved off and joined the rest of the lads in the village I thought some of the villages that we had seen in Egypt were poor but compared to this hovel they were like palaces

    11. Close to the hovel in which I slept there was a curious fetish consisting of a large carved gourd, containing a few crocodile teeth, and a raised crown-work over the whole, made of long strips of hippopotamus hide


    12. The larger cavern had been cooler than our hovel, and the chill air blowing in from the entrance made me regret not putting on my dress


    13. The winter morning light that modestly shone into the hovel revealed


    14. Thrusting Leah aside, then gently lifting the hunched bundle that was his beloved, Moshe followed blindly after Leah who had just as quickly regained her feet and hurried toward the hovel that he had once called home


    15. Annyeke frowned but followed the line of his finger to a hovel which, though damaged, seemed slightly more sturdy than those around it


    16. He could see the hovel now


    17. hovel that he had once called home


    18. The priest was still hovering about the small hovel; he was still rambling, but now no words


    19. To leave this city for the dust of a desert hovel


    20. Not one, not two, but three hours earlier, he had positioned himself behind a first-floor window of an abandoned hovel at the corner of the alley

    21. As he drew near the squalid hovel of a certain leprous man, the afflicted one, having heard of his fame as a healer, made bold to accost him as he passed his door, saying as he knelt before him: "Lord, if only you would, you could make me clean


    22. I went to his hovel of a flat and offered him $1250 a week plus half an ounce of smoko to run around for me for ten hours a day, pretty good considering it was tax free


    23. If the fear stopped, the energy in the house would lighten, and I would fall back to the demon’s hovel where the energy is so dense and heavy I would be stuck like a duck in an oil spill


    24. Ambrosius awoke the next morning early and pulled aside the tarpaulin that served as the door to Stan's hovel


    25. He went back to Stan's hovel and talked to him for a while about his day, then they enjoyed the perks open to the wealthy amongst the City's restaurants and nightspots


    26. Ambrosius had talked at length about his flight from the Hundred Boughs and his pining for Sunbeam during the evenings spent round the fire in Stan's hovel


    27. He didn't know where he was going, so it must have been by some innate autopilot that he ended up at Stan's hovel an hour later


    28. And they did not have much as it was, the dirt floor of their tiny slums hovel showing its years, as did the dirt on the clapboard walls and the holes in the paper thin fiberwood doors


    29. The house was a hovel distinct only from a native hut by its corrugated iron roof


    30. “Wel , we found somewhere that was a pitiful down-trodden hovel of a

    31. There was a dwelling at the end of the pathway, not much more than a hovel


    32. “Not since that Michael Humpendecker moved into the hovel


    33. them back to your hovel for a chat and a cup of drugged potion, and they push off the moment


    34. in! They probably had some rundown little hovel


    35. A heartless hovel


    36. At first Galinda simply lived wild in the forest bordering the village, foraging nuts and berries and grubs and sheltering in caves or hollows, but eventually she built a large hovel of tree trunks and slabs of peat torn from the nearby bog


    37. that was a hovel


    38. A beggar to his hovel, a plumber to his wooden frame, a Goddess to her mansion


    39. BERGIT GLANCED AROUND her hovel suspiciously before removing the large canvas rucksack from the corner


    40. Without an iron fist, without the church’s power and the religious brainwashing of Catholic dogma filling their souls, without the almighty church telling them what is good and what is evil, what is Christian and what is an abomination, without the superstitions and taboos and customs and traditions and holy days and saints days and teachings of the Catholic church which had been their peasant culture as obedient feudal slaves, without their illiterate cultures kept alive by close-knit villages preserving the ancient ways, without the Medieval barbarism that had regularly swept through Europe and kept each peasant huddled in their cottage or hovel hoping and praying to God that the murderers and rapists and robbers would not burn down his village this year… gave the lower classes a chance to live in peace as equals

    41. “This was also the way my hovel looked on


    42. higher than the cramped and lowly hovel you are prepared to crouch


    43. The hovel of a cutter of wood into lengths for burning, was the only house at that end; all else was wall


    44. It seems as if the poor had gone raiding the town, and now trapesed back to their own quarters, like beetles scurrying to their holes, for that old woman fairly hobbles towards Waterloo, grasping a shiny bag, as if she had been out into the light and now made off with some scraped chicken bones to her hovel underground


    45. Where the hay-rick stands in the barn-yard, where the dry-stalks are scatter'd, where the brood-cow waits in the hovel,


    46. " And he reminded her of a miserable little hovel situated at Barneville, near Aumale, that brought in almost nothing


    47. Sancho slept that night in a cot in the same chamber with Don Quixote, a thing he would have gladly excused if he could for he knew very well that with questions and answers his master would not let him sleep, and he was in no humour for talking much, as he still felt the pain of his late martyrdom, which interfered with his freedom of speech; and it would have been more to his taste to sleep in a hovel alone, than in that luxurious chamber in company


    48. Mercedes, although deposed from the exalted position she had occupied, lost in the sphere she had now chosen, like a person passing from a room splendidly lighted into utter darkness, appeared like a queen, fallen from her palace to a hovel, and who, reduced to strict necessity, could neither become reconciled to the earthen vessels she was herself forced to place upon the table, nor to the humble pallet which had become her bed


    49. The unspoken thought was a looming presence, never addressed but impossible to ignore, like the cow in the cramped one- room hovel of a poor peasant


    50. But if perchance he had to dismount, then, after a while, from the door of that hovel or of that pulperia, with a ferocious scuffle and stifled imprecations, a cargador would fly out head first and hands abroad, to sprawl under the forelegs of the silver-grey mare, who only pricked forward her sharp little ears












































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    Synonyms for "hovel"

    hovel hut hutch shack shanty shed storehouse

    "hovel" definitions

    small crude shelter used as a dwelling