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  • Predator excluded, a university math professor, a statistics specialist, had put the probability of Bin Laden being with his family in that village, a village of 100 mud-huts in a country as large as Texas, at the same time as the helicopter at 5 in 1000 and much lower on a night with freezing rain.

    The Crimes Behind the Criminal Wars! 2007

  • It is only low green banks, mud-huts, and palm-clumps, with the sun setting red behind them, and the great, dull, sinuous river flashing here and there in the light.

    Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

  • A few round mud-huts and palm-trees were planted along the line here and there.

    Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

  • Christ by choice passed his ministry in its intellectual freedom; not among the mud-huts of a Syrian village, but in polished streets among fora and pillared houses and rococo baths, products of an intense if very exotic provincial and corrupt

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • More than half this multitude could not be accommodated in the towns, and lodged in board-shanties, wigwams, mud-huts, log-cabins, bowers of willow-branches covered with wagon-sheets, and even in holes dug into the hill-sides.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various

  • The scattered mud-huts within the lines afforded excellent cover to the sick and wounded, as well as a degree of protection for the camels, horses, mules, and donkeys picketed near the middle ground of the camp.

    Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

  • The basis of the community was the House, at the head of which was a Master or Chief, independent and autocratic within his own limited domain, which consisted merely of a cluster of mud-huts in the bush.

    Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

  • A few mud-huts on the south face of the zereba materially added to the strength of the position.

    Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

  • Her idea was to construct a number of small mud-huts and sheds, which would eventually form the back buildings of the Mission

    Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

  • "It would be wrong," she said, "to insist on mud-huts for a nervous or æsthetic person."

    Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

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