hovel

• The old man slowly rows home … and there once again is the hovel, and there is the wife, and all is as it once was before wishes were taken up by a famished demon wearing the guise of a human being. —  The Moderate Voice
• Strange inhabitants for a hovel, as that this should be in such an odd situation--hundreds of miles beyond the borders of civilisation, as Walt well knows No wonder at his wondering, above all when he discovers that his comrade is already known to them--to the younger of the two men, who is their host. —  The Lone Ranche
• The soil and the hovel were his, descended to him from his forbears! —  The Story of Russia
• 'The cottage was allowed to stand for the sake of the stork's nest; in itself it was only a scarecrow on the heath, but the dean did not want to frighten away the stork, so the hovel was allowed to stand. —  Stories from Hans Andersen
• Every type of house from the palace to the hovel was well represented. —  Life in a Mediæval City Illustrated by York in the XVth Century

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