Hovels Sentence Examples

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  • Ahvaz reached the height of its prosperity in the 12th and 13th centuries and is now a collection of wretched hovels, with a small rectangular fort in a state of ruin, and an Arab population of about 400.

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  • It was still a wealthy place as late as the 14th century; but in the general decline of the East, and owing to changes in the trade routes, it sunk at length to a poor group of hovels gathered in the courtyard of the Temple of the Sun.

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  • They nowhere built permanent dwellings, but contented themselves with mere hovels for temporary shelter.

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  • Vara slowed their horse, halting on the other side of the city, where wooden dwellings gave way to stone hovels.

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  • The streets formerly consisted largely of mud hovels, but since a great fire in 1894, which destroyed large parts of James Town and Ussher Town, more substantial buildings have been erected.

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  • English lurked in farms and hovels, amongst villeins and serfs, in the outlying country-districts, in the distant ' See Stevenson, Waring and Skeat, op. cit.

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  • Up to the beginning of the 19th century it was filled with hovels and stables; these were subsequently cleared out, and at the end of the century the building was restored, and now serves as a national theatre.

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  • The normal annual expenditure amounts to about L56,000, while 24,000 is generally allotted to extraordinary works, such as new cuttings, &c. Between 1857 and 1905 a sum of about one and three quarter millions sterling was spent on engineering works, including the construction of quays, lighthouses, workshops and buildings, &c. Sulina from being a collection of mud hovels has developed into a town with 5000 inhabitants; a well-found hospital has been established where all merchant sailors receive gratuitous treatment; lighthouses, quays, floating elevators and an efficient pilot service all combine to make it a first-class port.

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  • They are crammed with poor families, while their gardens have vanished under hastily built hovels.

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  • He told one rich convert, ` Go and see the sick in their own poor little hovels.

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  • Private enterprise had provided " mere hovels - jerry built, insanitary, tightly crammed rows of houses " .

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  • Next to the wooden hovels of the past you have the modern skyscraper of the Communist regime.

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  • Large families, it is thought, exist only among religious weirdos or the teeming hovels of the Third World.

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