shealing
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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He shook himself into the present world, and left behind the ashes of their fire and made for the shealing hut, all the way solacing himself with fancy.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil
The bodies of the dead in the shealing were consigned to the earth as they lay, the four walls composing a mausoleum where animosity was buried.
From The King's Own by Marryat, Frederick
I saw that we were in front of a miserable shealing, the door of which lay open; but all was dark within.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James
"I rarely attempt anything beyond a peasant hut or a shealing."
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James
Above the bed were some planks, extending half way the length of the shealing, and there slept the seven boys, without any mattress, or even straw, to lie upon.
From Diary in America, Series One by Marryat, Frederick
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