| In the city of a million hovels, a million lovers coupled to the signs of the seasons. |
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| Until the 1840s, there was a ceiling to growth, which condemned people to the misery of subsisting in crowded, insanitary cities or rural hovels. |
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| Oh, believe me, Dr Hawkins, I have seen the state of some of their homes, or should I call them hovels? |
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| It stood out like the Taj Mahal in a trailer camp as it was surrounded by what can only be described as windowless hovels and wooden shacks. |
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| The homes, or rather hovels, that they lived in would not now be considered fit for pigs. |
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| Grungy bands of humans huddle around rubbish fires in hovels constructed of old tires and scrap metal. |
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| Geraldo has lived in tents, alone in the African bush, in hovels, and in quite decent apartments. |
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| Peasants huddle terrified in hovels while ashen-faced statesmen race hither and thither before the storm clouds of history. |
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| We pause to remember mothers who live in hovels or without enough food for their children. |
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| In the early 20th century, they still lived in small, tumbledown wooden hovels at the foot of the royal palace. |
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| Many live in substandard housing because they do not have the financial resources to lift themselves out of hovels. |
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| Before the 18th century, about 80 per cent of the people in a country such as Great Britain lived in hovels. |
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| These hovels are still there, rows of them along muddy tracks which are either frozen or dusty according to the season. |
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| At the beginning of history it was no more than a poor village, just a few hovels perched on the side of the hill. |
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| Caves are from 5 to 15 meters of deep and there are underground temples, burial hovels, anchorages of monks-recluses. |
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| Amid abandoned houses, plebeian hovels and piles of refuse and sewage, there were government offices, arms factories, official warehouses, and active markets. |
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| An American charity has launched the world's first slum theme park, complete with around 30 ramshackle hovels, a communal outdoor toilet and door-to-door detritus. |
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| When rural peasants swapped their hovels for the textile mills of Lancashire, did it feel like an improvement? |
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| Café chatter contrasts Mohammad VI's surfeit of palaces with the hovels his forces knock down. |
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| The hovels they build themselves need to be rebuilt every year since they are torn down by the wind and rain. |
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| One can think that at the time of its construction, the close dwellings were only of simple hovels. |
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| These trees, as we have stated earlier, underscore the absurd underset by vanishing dreams in hovels. |
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| Natural evolution of what Brunetta defines as the passage from hovels to cathedrals, the multiplex is taking the process of replacement of traditional historic environments to the extreme consequences. |
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| Between palm trees you can find a few exclusive hovels, and after dinner you are welcome to spend time in a beautiful bar which is totally built out of stone. |
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| They have been bred in Italy since time immemorial, loved in palaces and hovels alike, especially for their guard instinct and vigilance. Perhaps most famously, it was the breed favored by Michelangelo. |
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| We now have another dictator in Mugabe: not content with the purge of white farmers, he has now turned on the black population, who have been uprooted from the land and are living in hovels with no food. |
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| The dank squalor of the turf-built hovels in which most Icelanders lived is described with disconcerting relish, along with the suppurating sores, stoically borne, that resulted. |
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| During the Industrial Revolution factories, mills and terraced hovels grew up along the river banks. |
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| Fine embroidery, especially gold threadwork, was of course a specialised skill, done for rich patrons, not the stitchcraft of hovels. |
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| Ingersoll stated that when theologians had power the majority of people lived in hovels while a privileged few had palaces and cathedrals. |
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| Once again, Kiely details the streets and the alleys, the comfortable homes and the squalid hovels, the outlying country roads and hills, with veristic scrupulosity. |
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| Upon the occasion of his first publication he quit his day job, only to find that Grub Street wasn't lined with manors and villas but hovels and slums. |
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