log-huts

He made a map of his county, with some fine towns here and there, which, in truth, were but log-huts (but, for the honour of his country, he was desirous that they should wear as handsome a look as possible).

The Virginians 2006

Our infant city consists of three log-huts and one of clay, which, however, on the second day, fell in to the ground landlords.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829) Various

"And this," said I to my companion, as we looked from the door-step of the shanty upon the spiry tops of evergreens in the valley below us, and at the wretched log-huts that were roosting up on the bare rocks around us,

Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

Some of these good people dwelt in log-huts, with the black forest all around them, on the steep and difficult hillsides.

Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson

Trees were felled, and log-huts wore erected, the interstices of which were filled up with earth, moss, and a rude kind of mortar, in order to render them warm and comfortable.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

Even the smoke ascends more faintly than usual from the chimneys of these abundant log-huts and scanty framed houses, and since three o'clock yesterday afternoon not a stroke of this world's work has been done.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

Iowa emigrants found fair prospects here, and made it their home, calling their mines Emigrant Gulch, and their half-dozen log-huts

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various

Virginia neighborhood, with the due allotment of mansion-houses and log-huts, tobacco-fields and "old-fields", horses, dogs, negroes, "poor white folks", so called, and other white folks, poor without being called so.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

With infinite faith in the tendencies of mineral and vegetable nature, in human nature he shows no practical trust, and must even be severe upon the babies in the Maine log-huts for playing with wooden dolls instead of pine-cones.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

B. DIB.S, one of the most prominent citizens of Hukiewaukie (then a mere collection of log-huts), disappeared without leaving any address to which his letters and papers were to be forwarded.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 7, 1891 Various