hovels

• plural of hovel.

Example Sentences

Hovels such as appear in your picture simply do not exist as dormitories.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Right-hand of the3 Square consists of Hay-Barns, and two or three wretched Hovels.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

Hovels stood cheek by jowl with stately monasteries, and the fortified mansions in the narrow City lanes were surrounded by citizens' stalls and shops.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

They live well.And thus they live, building small Hovels in remote Places, Highways, under Trees.

From An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape by Knox, Robert

Why, it is a house!" she said, lifting her eyebrows; "and the others—" "Hovels?

From Sir George Tressady — Volume I by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

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