Huts

Examples

• This latter task was becoming more and more difficult, for the blacks had taken to hiding their supply away at night in granaries and living huts. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Twice had he entered huts at night while the inmates lay sleeping upon their mats, and stolen the arrows from the very sides of the warriors. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It is not even certain that they had tents or huts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The natives build their huts out of small poles covered with palm thatch and live in little colonies while the rubber harvest is going on. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• However, a number of the laborers usually remain in the huts, loafing and fighting the animals and insects that seek refuge from the rising waters. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• On the whole island there were but three miserable huts, and one of these was vacant when I arrived. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Another excels in making the frames and covers of their little huts or moveable houses. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The prisoners were herded into three huts where they were heavily guarded. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• There they surrounded the small village of Indian huts, and just at break of day broke into them all at once. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Men were put to work getting out timber to build huts, and in a very short time all were comfortably housed--privates as well as officers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Then their huts were set on fire, and most of them burned down. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• At all events they were living in small huts, about such as soldiers would hastily construct for temporary occupation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They made themselves huts, and accumulated other followers to the number of threescore or more. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• All gazed in consternation at it for an instant, and then, with one accord, broke and ran for their huts. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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