Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about. From LearnThat.org. [James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)]
Our hovel is down a leafy and muddy lane, several hundred yards from the next house. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-09-26] Reference
On the whole I'd say my hovel is no filthier than any other person of the bookseller persuasion. From Wordnik.com. [Still, life with bottle] Reference
All nature takes pity upon this degraded and charming thing that you call a hovel, and welcomes it. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Victor Hugo] Reference
Welder his hovel, which is in the yard of the howse next me, which. From Wordnik.com. [The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts] Reference
The soil and the hovel were his, descended to him from his forbears!. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Russia] Reference
No more than six paces square with a floor of hewn wood, to Buccari the hovel was a castle. From Wordnik.com. [Genellan- Planetfall]
The hovel was a squalid, beggary thing that might have been built over night somewhere back in the dark ages. From Wordnik.com. [Truxton King A Story of Graustark] Reference
She invited me to come visit her in her 'hovel' the next time I came to New York. From Wordnik.com. [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]
There was a deserted log camp here, apparently used the previous winter, with its "hovel" or barn for cattle. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
"That thou shouldst go with her to the hovel which is her home, the only home that thou wouldst ever know?. From Wordnik.com. ["Unto Caesar"] Reference
Anyway, they're cleaner than this hovel of your'n. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
He retreated into his hovel and awaited the worst. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
The filthy hovel is replaced by the decent cottage. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Victims are found in the palace as well as in the hovel. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Zara] Reference
(He was actually born in a hovel in Russia, outside Vladivostok.). From Wordnik.com. [Women, Wine And Weapons] Reference
Situated behind this hovel, was a small piece of land called a garden. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
Squatting in his rude hovel or gloomy cave, he listens to the sounds of. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
At night, Charlotte circulated in the corner of his stone hovel, watching him. From Wordnik.com. [Charlotte's Nexus] Reference
On they sped again, never stopping until they came to a wretched little hovel. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
Its meaning is well shown in the following examples: -- "Domo", house; "domacxo", hovel. From Wordnik.com. [The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians] Reference
"Can you understand anyone living in such a poky, ramshackle little hovel?" asked Sylvia. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
Here, living in a squalid hovel, he eked out a precarious existence by hunting and grazing. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
She was a farmer's wife, and they were huddled in the dirtiest bit of a hovel that I ever saw. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
Frags and Willy Peter and M-80 launcher: Housekeepers, to clean out your sand monkey hovel. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Warfare] Reference
I crept back to my little hovel by the sea and waited for word fromBerkeley. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 5] Reference
I'm even feeling bad for the poor people who offered us this spot behind their little house which is only a hovel. From Wordnik.com. [Peeg and Brie (opening of a teen novel)] Reference
Some days it leaves its hovel without an umbrella even when the weather forecast says there's a 23% chance of rain. From Wordnik.com. [Syntheticpitchophobic Spurs Players; and The Gallic Shrug Made Flesh] Reference
'One enters some hovel ... something ... stirs or groans in the gloomiest corner on the floor beneath a filthy blanket. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
"Well, your father was engaged to Anna, the girl that died in the old hovel down yonder; engaged to her when he married me.". From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
But although Elsie had very little fear that they would be found, yet she was determined to get away somehow from this hovel. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
The mules had halted just below this eminence, and Ruth saw that there was a winding path leading up to the door of the hovel. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
And you tell a few tales of Dahl as a kind of childlike person who wrote his books at a weird little hovel that he called a writing hut. From Wordnik.com. [Roald Dahl: The Story Of The 'Storyteller'] Reference
When the carriage stopped M. Godefroy saw a wretched hovel, on which was the number he was seeking; it was the house where Pierron lived. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Child 1894] Reference
You are very kind, but you must believe that I am satisfied in my hovel with a hole that I have dug in the dirt floor in which to sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Rev. Jasper Pickery and Three Manifestations of the Devil] Reference
However, when morning broke on October 31, many of the Deal boatmen, whose keen eyes saw a possibility of a 'hovel,' came in their powerful. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
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