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shanty
1. Fire climbs into the night sky, illuminating the shanty town as it burns
2. So with Captain Dimitris in the wheelhouse keeping a weather eye on the horizon, and me sipping the concentrated aniseed drink, I began humming the one sea shanty in my repertoire, Liverpool Lou and it wasn't long before the Princess of Stephanos was gliding over the waves along her way
3. Working any of the unskilled jobs, you can pay this off in thirty to thirty five years, assuming you live in the shanty town and eat from the rubbish heap
4. The outer walls of the small, single-levelled shanty homes
5. Dozens of shanty homes and shacks similar to those of
6. the centre of the square was as Cloud remembered it; the shanty
7. Initially, some of the inhabitants of the shanty town grouped together near the gate, bearing banners and chanting repeatedly, “LET US IN” and, as the occasional convoy of armoured coaches arrived and were let through, they would run up to the open gate in an attempt to gain entry
8. Anyway, he took the law into his own hands once too often when he tracked down a burglar right in the heart of one of the shanty towns in the plains below Capetown
9. They entered single file and huddled inside the tiny shanty
10. Gin and Shanty Towns
11. The shanty town rose over the smal bay like a junk yard
12. They had mostly been looted of anything that could be sold or used - many families were using old car seats as furniture outside their derelict shanty buildings
13. They found their way to a shanty hut
14. A Hooverville was a shanty town built by impoverished un-employed people in the United States during the Great Depression
15. The Shanty towns were named after the president of the time, Herbert C
16. Walking up the drive towards the shanty at the top of the hill, Molly noticed
17. worse than living in a shanty without need or want
18. “ Dearest Niece, I see you’ve been initiated! ” He gave me a kiss on both cheeks and sauntered away, whistling a sea shanty
19. As a signal to the end of the conversation he began whistling an upbeat sea shanty
20. days in the little shanty behind his house while I found
21. Then he began to sing an old sea shanty,
22. Writers there are who say the first adventure he met with was that of Puerto Lapice; others say it was that of the windmills; but what I have ascertained on this point, and what I have found written in the annals of La Mancha, is that he was on the road all day, and towards nightfall his hack and he found themselves dead tired and hungry, when, looking all around to see if he could discover any castle or shepherd's shanty where he might refresh himself and relieve his sore wants, he perceived not far out of his road an inn, which was as welcome as a star guiding him to the portals, if not the palaces, of his redemption; and quickening his pace he reached it just as night was setting in
23. There was a light burning in a little shanty that hadn't been lived in for a long time, and I wondered who had took up quarters there
24. New Hope Church was a nightmare of another life and so was tramp on the red rutted roads, slop-slop through the red mud, retreat, entrench, fight—Big Shanty, where they turned and fought the Yankees like demons
25. From Big Shanty, the weary sleepless lines retreated down the road to Kennesaw Mountain, near the little town of Marietta, and here they spread their lines in a ten-mile curve
26. “Shanty Irish on the make,” Frank had contemptuously called him, but for that very reason Scarlett valued him
27. WAYNE LAWRENCE BROWARD’S house was a brown, wood-shingled shanty, the third one in from the intersection of Hollister Avenue and Hawes Street
28. So when Abraham suggested we stop in at a little gray shanty of a saloon with a crooked sign on the door, GUMBO JOE’S, I was a happy man
29. But he came from the shanty side, and he let it put a huge chip on his shoulder
30. In South America, many Catholic priests were shocked at the way the rich kept down and exploited the poor; many workers had to live in shanty towns while their bosses lived in luxury villas
31. When unemployed people could no longer pay the rent and had to live in shanty towns made of scrap metal and old boxes, they called them ‘Hoovervilles’ in honour of the man they blamed for what had happened to them
32. Built in record time, the ESB opened in 1931 to general amazement: This was what modern America could do! But even as the ESB went up, the Depression set in and many men who’d built it ended up living in shanty towns called Hoovervilles
33. I want to quit this shanty
34. And so he did not like Zdrzhinski’s tale, nor did he like Zdrzhinski himself who, with his mustaches extending over his cheeks, bent low over the face of his hearer, as was his habit, and crowded Rostov in the narrow shanty
35. Five minutes later Ilyin, splashing through the mud, came running back to the shanty
36. In this recess lies concealed a little shanty which leans against the portion of the ruin which has remained standing
37. When these men were re-united, one of them lifted the latch of the gate in the fence, and all four entered the enclosure in which the shanty stood
38. An ancient plaster flue, which had served for a stove that had been used in the shanty in former times, ran along the wall and mounted almost to the very spot where they could see Thenardier
39. Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed him the rope which Brujon had knotted together during Montparnasse's absence
40. Before he knew it he found himself running from shanty to shanty taking temperatures, giving physics, borrowing and delivering blankets and even taking food from house to house where mothers looked at him with inflamed eyes from their beds, and thanked him and put the full responsibility for their children’s recovery on him
41. At first it looked like a vast blue fort or Valhalla; but when they began to tuck the coarse meadow hay into the crevices, and this became covered with rime and icicles, it looked like a venerable moss-grown and hoary ruin, built of azure-tinted marble, the abode of Winter, that old man we see in the almanac—his shanty, as if he had a design to estivate with us
42. And so he did not like Zdrzhinski’s tale, nor did he like Zdrzhinski himself who, with his mustaches extending over his cheeks, bent low over the face of his hearer, as was his habit, and crowded Rostóv in the narrow shanty
43. Five minutes later Ilyín, splashing through the mud, came running back to the shanty
44. To write the latter correctly, to keep the Committee informed of the amount of cement used, of fresh piles driven, of water pumped out, of concrete put in, to notify casualties, as they occurred, in a manner that might suggest the Committee's obligations under employers' liability, but did not harrow their feelings; to be at the works by nine o'clock every morning and not to leave till five; to be either in the iron shanty called the engineer's office, or supervising the making of concrete, or clambering about the massive beams and piles, or shouting through the telephone, or interviewing the ganger, or doing one of the hundred other things that were in the day's work; surely this was all that was required to be done, and he flattered himself that he had done it very well
45. ” Add to these items the fact that he lived in a patchwork shanty on the end of a sandspit six miles from Wellmouth Port, that he was deaf and dumb, that he drove a liver-colored, balky mare that no one but himself and his daughter “Becky” could handle, that he had a fondness for bad rum, and a wicked temper that had twice landed him in the village lockup, and you have a fair idea of the personality of Lonesome Huckleberries
46. At last among the thickets and brush there were some signs of life, and we came to an opening among the trees where we saw a miserable-looking old shanty
