wickiup

• “a tree, and have erected a "wickiup" of green pine boughs overlapping like a thatched roof, which will turn off the rain if it comes, and I have advised the others of our party to make similar preparations for a rain.”

  The Discovery of Yellowstone Park

• “We told the young Greenpeace fund raiser that due to the "low budge = no budget" Rupert Murdock style fiscal philosophy practiced by most of the liberal web site publishers, I couldn't actually give her some dinero, but I could dash right back to my wickiup and pound out a sympathetic column on my new (used) laptop.”

  Printing: Will Republicans rally to save the white bears?

• “Well, this was news to me, of course, although her conduct in the wickiup had suggested that she had some such arrangement in mind.”

  Fictionaut: Isabelle

• “But I must have been drunker, for presently he carried me home in one hand (I weighed about fourteen stone then) and dropped me into my wickiup-through the roof, not the door, unfortunately.”

  Fictionaut: Isabelle

• “She was reclining on a blanket at the door of the wickiup, on one elbow, that sturdy little brown body a-gleam in the fireglow as though it had been oiled, and not a stitch on except for the patterned head-band above the cinnamon eyes that gleamed like hot coals, and the tight white leggings that came up to her hips.”

  Fictionaut: Isabelle

• “After the funeral, the Yawner told me I must take my pony to Sonsee-array's wickiup and leave it there-so I did, watched by the whole village, and madam ignored it.”

  Fictionaut: Isabelle

• “They can be just as pert and hoity-toity in a Mimbreno wickiup as they can in a Belgravia drawing-room, believe me.”

  Fictionaut: Isabelle

• “We must find a pretty, secluded spot, he snarled, and build a bower for my bride's reception; we lit on a little pine grove by a brook, and there we built a wickiup-or rather, he did, while I got in the way and made helpful suggestions, and he damned the day he'd ever seen me-and stored it with food and blankets and cooking gear.”

  Fictionaut: Isabelle

• “At the same time he'd no idea of what Spain or Britain or the United States or even Texas really were-dammit, he thought the whole white race was only ten thousand strong, and obviously imagined Queen Victoria living in a wickiup somewhere over the hills.”

  Fictionaut: Isabelle

• “At one time I was in a wickiup, and a dirty old crone was spooning some mush of meat and corn into me; again, I was being carried on a stretcher, with open sky and branches passing overhead.”

  Fictionaut: Isabelle

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