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  • I should become Mrs. "Hovel," or Mrs. "Backyard" -- you dog there, that's wearing my collar; you lackey with my coat of arms on your buttons -- and I should share with my cook, and be the rival of my own servant.

    Plays by August Strindberg, Second series August Strindberg 1880

  • You know, perhaps, that Mr Cooper call'd on me when in town, — Hercules in a Hovel!

    Letter 217 2009

  • …Or, to be more accurate, perhaps I should instead have entitled it “An Account of my Wretched Box-like Hovel.”

    An Account of my Dwelling (for Kamo no Chômei) Marc Lowe 2011

  • Both Ulfgar and Yng were feeling very ill from the food at Stiltzkin's Hovel; they had to remain within close proximity of the toilet and under the care of Doctor Huckstable.

    D&D on Tuesday nathreee 2008

  • I recall Carol Burnett did a howlingly funny take of off Enchanted Cottage, called “Enchanted Hovel”; humor as only Ms. Burnett could do it, with the able assistance of Lesbian Van Penis.

    100 Mysteries: Marcus Welby May Be Nuts – The Bleat. 2009

  • In the second act, the Heir and the Friend, ambushed in a Peasant Hovel, made the most creative use of a ladder, a table, and a stool that Alberich had ever seen.

    Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003

  • In the second act, the Heir and the Friend, ambushed in a Peasant Hovel, made the most creative use of a ladder, a table, and a stool that Alberich had ever seen.

    Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003

  • When they passed the Bush Hovel they saw the Wise Woman currying her broomstick, and Viola cried:

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

  • The Wise Woman was at home; from afar the King saw her sitting outside the Hovel mending her broom with a withe from the Bush.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

  • Nevertheless, he kept Pepper's head in a beeline for Chanctonbury, never noticing how very ill she was going, and presently crossed the great High Road beyond which lay the Bush Hovel.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

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