And thanks to the heavy police presence, the squatter houses were quiet, too.
The bakery she had founded was now occupied by a squatter who had never heard of the structure's former incarnation.
The panic excited by the squatter skunk had been another lesson.
The squatter covered the white fingers with tears and kisses.
"It air time fer me to go, Tess," murmured the squatter in her ear.
She could not finish the sentence for the squatter had pressed her to him convulsively.
As I said in the court-room the squatter trials are but farces.
Without their men the squatter women also would disappear from the shores.
They be dum good blokes, to give their money to a squatter, ain't they?
His father was waiting for the squatter to take her departure.
"settler who occupies land without legal title," 1788, agent noun from squat (v.); in reference to paupers or homeless people in uninhabited buildings, it is recorded from 1880.
early 15c., "crouch on the heels," from Old French esquatir "press down, lay flat, crush," from es- "out" (from Latin ex-) + Old French quatir "press down, flatten," from Vulgar Latin *coactire "press together, force," from Latin coactus, past participle of cogere "to compel, curdle, collect" (see cogent). Related: Squatted; squatting. Slang noun sense of "nothing at all" first attested 1934, probably suggestive of squatting to defecate. The adjective sense of "short, thick" dates from 1620s.
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