Word: hovel
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...crime did not pay for the Ikedas, at least courage and persistence did. Last week their counterfeiting came to an abrupt end as police closed in on their iron hovel. Citizens of Osaka, hearing the pathetic story of Kanji and Yoshino, promptly raised and sent to the jail a sympathy fund of 18,000 yen-almost twice what the Ikedas had been able to paint for themselves...
Thus did 19-year-old Marta Skavronsky, orphan daughter of a Lithuanian serf, climb the next-to-last rung of a ladder rising from a peasant's hovel to the throne of Russia...
...happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about."-James A. McN. Whistler...
Near the top of that hill we found a little hovel roofed by dripping banana leaves. Into this squalid hole two Chinese had crawled to die. One had already done so. I filled the dying man's rusty tin with water from a stream. He thanked me and fumbling feebly in his clothes offered me a battered cigaret. I did not accept...
...character he approves of is a burly bootmaker with a fierce pride in his own dignity, who works hard to support his wretched family in a hovel, and who joins a union promptly after his new employers have told...