As well might we speak of a "tumbledown" habit in a row of houses, brought on by locomotives running underneath their foundations. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Philosophy] Reference
Four young girls secure the use of a tumbledown cottage. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
Rivière, a tumbledown villa on the outskirts of Neuilly. From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Waters] Reference
Possibly the sniper was using the tumbledown shed as cover. From Wordnik.com. [Leave a Message for Willie]
He dwelt in a tumbledown hovel but a short distance from our house. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
It was a small tumbledown structure, barely big enough for a single car. From Wordnik.com. [Killing Floor]
Cora's home was the upstairs floor of a tumbledown building in a coal yard. From Wordnik.com. [A Place Called Freedom]
Some of us scurried to this little tumbledown shanty to stow our belongings. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
You should choose an old tumbledown wall and throw over it a piece of white silk. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art] Reference
And generally, just a half-assed, tumbledown, anything-goes attitude about things. From Wordnik.com. [David Murray: City Golf Courses: Whaddya Expect?] Reference
It had been a sleepy village with an old, tumbledown cathedral when he first came here. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
Spc. Geer takes up a position behind a tumbledown rock wall, looking towards the river. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Patrol] Reference
Every Khamorth in the world could have paraded by the tumbledown barn in the next few hours. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
He went with her to her home -- a miserable room in the third story of a tumbledown shanty in. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Every tumbledown cabin was traced in white, and every abandoned chair held a cushion of snow. From Wordnik.com. [Wolves Eat Dogs]
The threatening walls of this tumbledown abode seemed to have been decorated with hieroglyphics. From Wordnik.com. [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket] Reference
(AP) -- The 91-year-old widow lived by herself in a tumbledown house on a desolate country road. From Wordnik.com. [Jean Stevens, Wyalusing Widow, Lived With Corpses Of Husband And Twin Sister, Say Police] Reference
It was a tumbledown ranch, but in the wildest, most desolate, and most beautiful spot imaginable. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference
Later, when the streets became wholly deserted, he found an empty, tumbledown hut and slept until dawn. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
For many, their new tumbledown farmhouses or cottages won't be just for vacations: they're planning to settle. From Wordnik.com. [Here Come The Brits] Reference
Then there was the immensely fat and cheerful Agathi, who lived in a tiny tumbledown cottage high up the hill. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
To the right of the clearing was a tumbledown shed, its doors sagging on rusty hinges and most of its roof caved in. From Wordnik.com. [Leave a Message for Willie]
Feeling dazed, he made his way back to Holyrood, hugging the back streets and skirting the tumbledown portions of the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
Congo's tumbledown capital, whose jaded residents have seen a series of accords come and go without an end to the conflict. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But seriously, gentlemen, when you are tired of sketching trees and tumbledown houses, I can give you some good boar hunting. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Wandsworth, keeping by the river bank, and Jarvis made a halt at a tumbledown rookery of a waterside tavern -- the "Feathers.". From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
The prisoners were taken into an adjoining field for exercise and in a corner of this field a goat lived in a tumbledown shed. From Wordnik.com. [THE GREAT ESCAPE]
Then he had reconstructed that filthy old tumbledown pigsty and, with sand and cement, had made it over into a neat, attractive shelter. From Wordnik.com. [The Road Leads On] Reference
Britain's middle-aged bourgeois dream no more of roses-round-the-door cottages in Devon; the fantasy is of a tumbledown Provencal farmhouse with olive grove. From Wordnik.com. [ENTENTE NOT-SO-CORDIALE] Reference
It was not long before the car pulled up in a dirty, tumbledown street near the water front, before a shop that had been turned into a moving picture theatre. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scout Fire Fighters or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed] Reference
Trained to use high-powered rifles and mortars, the gangsters operate in the "misery belts" -- the vast warrens of tumbledown shacks that ring Colombia's cities. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Aim At The City] Reference
A mile ahead I came to a tumbledown roadhouse, with quite a crowd of loud-voiced men standing around, who evidently had been indulging in the fiery aguardiente sold there. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
My primary vantage point was the Al-Bader Palace, a tumbledown four-story building at the edge of the souk, a meeting place for pilgrims, businessmen, gangsters and journalists. From Wordnik.com. [Euphoria And Fear] Reference
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