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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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