I drank tea with village elders in a humble, mud-walled house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alone, Afraid, In the Company of Men Dreaming of Death] Reference

We stopped in a small bazaar between two rows of mud-walled shops.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Taliban troop with an east London cab driver in its ranks] Reference

Qomendan Hemmet sat cross-legged under a window of the mud-walled room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Know Your Enemy | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

Dawson approaches an old man keeping watch over his tiny, mud-walled store.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civilian-Military Cooperation team in Kandahar] Reference

There the Mahdists had built a strong mud-walled fort by the bank of the Nile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference

The mud-walled fort was, in Major Holiday's words, a "battle lab" for Special Forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imperial Grunts] Reference

But behind the city's simple mud-walled buildings are strong links to this storied past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elusive Libraries of Timbuktu] Reference

It is a very rare family that has even a single water faucet beside their mud-walled house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph B. Treaster: In African Slum, Dreaming About Things So Close, Yet So Far] Reference

BOWMAN: They're patrolling a neighborhood of mud-walled compounds, rising up a rocky hillside.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Toils To Build Police Force In Kandahar] Reference

It is a village of fifty or sixty mud-walled, flat-roofed houses, defended by the usual rampart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

"The phone saves me money," he says from his mud-walled home, which he shares with his 20 buffalo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rural India Snaps Up Mobile Phones] Reference

The mud-walled compounds that made up that village destroyed by what looked like bombs and missiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2002] Reference

It was raining, so we sat inside one of their mud-walled rooms, as night fell, and drank beer together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference

He did not need it; the Baktrian lords had made off; the mud-walled fort let him in for a small reward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Boy]

We found the dead man lying on a couple of sheepskins, in the centre of a mud-walled and mud-floored room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference

It is a landscape punctuated by tall mud-walled grape-houses, imposing as forts, and by sprawling villages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afghanistan's three parallel wars] Reference

At last after a week's travel they reached Cossier, the little mud-walled village on the shores of the Red Sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

The high quality, unedited film shows bin Laden addressing his followers at the mud-walled complex near Kandahar.    From Wordnik.com.  [CIA Hid Other Tapes From 9/11 Commission] Reference

Captor detonated suicide vest as US special forces rescuers arrived at the mud-walled compound in eastern Afghanistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [How the rescue of British aid worker Linda Norgrove ended in tragedy] Reference

In Bachal Chana, south of Dadu, a couple of dozen teenagers and their fathers stand guard over their mud-walled homes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Still marooned: plight of flood-stricken villagers in Pakistan's Sindh province] Reference

Complex mud-walled compounds made the rural Panjwaii district take on an almost urban style of fighting in some places.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canadians in Afghanistan] Reference

As we reached the gates of Gardez, bright gunfire crackled against the side of a mud-walled building near the checkpost.    From Wordnik.com.  [A SLEEPLESS NIGHT IN THE COLD] Reference

Fathers carried the precious rocks home to store inside their mud-walled compounds, sometimes leaving them on sleeping mats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lead Poisoning Outbreak Causes Emergency In Nigeria] Reference

Bagram, the town, is a ramshackle collection of mud-walled compounds tied together with a maze of narrow, twisting dirt roads.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2001] Reference

Bagram, the town, is a ramshackle collection of mud-walled compounds tied together with a maze of narrow, twisting, dirt roads.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2001] Reference

In a mud-walled hut, Achol Deng Ngok stacked layers of kissera, a sorghum pancake, she had prepared to send to men north of town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear of flareup in Sudan border town of Abyei] Reference

The houses vary from a mud-walled house with a corrugated iron roof, to a concrete house with glass windows, not your typical mud hut!.    From Wordnik.com.  [“It is easy to see the beginning of things, and harder to see the ends.”] Reference

These mud-walled "shelters" were often filled with vermin, and soldiers had to resort to begging from passing Arabs for scraps of food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I] Reference

The fighting was fierce at first, with Marines coming under sustained machine-gun and rifle fire from tree lines and mud-walled compounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Takes On Taliban in U.K.'s Wake] Reference

Barghantu is a village of perhaps 300 people living in a few dozen mud-walled compounds spread out along 1,000 yards of orchards and dry river bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Steps Up Missions Targeting Taliban Leaders] Reference

Canada, through the Provincial Reconstruction Team, is currently involved in the physical restoration of the mud-walled Sarposa and the training of its guards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

Arghandab is shade and water, and mud-walled orchards, and mulberries and apricots, and pomegranates the size of grapefruits hanging from the willowy branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afstan: Pessimism from people on the ground] Reference

Automatic rifle fire came toward them from a tree line about 175 meters, or 575 feet, to the west and from a row of mud-walled Afghan houses to the east and north.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taliban don't play by Dutch rules] Reference

The firefight quickly took on a familiar pattern, with insurgents firing rifles from mud-walled compounds and disappearing soon after coalition forces returned fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afghan and Allied Forces Begin to Secure Taliban Stronghold] Reference

He saw nothing which had a walled garden, but he did find a small mud-walled home that had a courtyard and he dropped his pack in the main room as a sign of ownership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Fortress]

The farm was a miserable hovel of a place - merely a mud-walled cottage surrounded by frosted slush with two dilapidated outbuildings where chickens lived in filthy straw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Siege]

When the armoured vehicles roll in, their first response is to flee to their mud-walled homes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference