Houses squatted beneath thick blankets of fresh snow and a horse-drawn sleigh clopped past, bells jingling. |
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Johen bent down, then finally squatted directly in front of the horse to look at its front legs for himself. |
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The older boy squatted down on his heels and waited for his guest to resurface, hoping that the water would cool off his anger. |
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His friends were shopping inside and he was tired, so he squatted on the ground. |
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Two families have squatted in a shell-scarred mansion for the duration of the fighting. |
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He moved over to me and squatted down on his haunches so he could look at me eye to eye. |
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Feeling threatened she scrabbled backward when the man squatted down in front of her. |
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Studio Sputnik started off when we squatted in an old attic of a building while we were still students. |
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I just spent the weekend in a terribly cute little shack which has been squatted by kids in Sydney. |
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The house next door has been squatted by a nice bunch of young punks with seemingly endless supplies of dope. |
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John McMillan, who is believed to have named the creek in the area Scotchmans Creek, squatted and grazed cattle. |
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In the bush the first owner-builders also operated outside the law as they squatted on Crown land. |
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I ran across the road, wadded up my jacket and squatted next to him in the road, with the buses and cars honking and streaming past. |
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Just before sundown he squatted up in a great walnut tree on the edge of the forest, where he was able to see for miles around. |
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He squatted next to her and ran his fingers gently along the gills of one of the large mushrooms. |
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The bandolero caught up the packhorse's leadrope but the packhorse balked and squatted on its haunches. |
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We squatted on the floor and scoffed and then washed it down with sweet milky tea. |
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As the military dictatorship began to lose power in 1981, families squatted on land in Solano and built barrios. |
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Instead, he and his wife squatted in an abandoned opera house that had been used by artists preparing work for the exposition. |
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They were squatted all along the river bank with oversized pads of cartridge paper and soft dark pencils. |
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She squatted next to the reporter, and picked up a shard of glass. |
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He squatted, hams on heels, the toes of his mundowies gripping the ground. |
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Originally a theatre, the space was squatted in 1979 by five young artists in need of a place to show their work. |
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Outside the gallery, a spotlight fell across a strip of grass where Nelly Zhang squatted, scratching the dog's chest. |
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Nathan felt a sincere pity and squatted so he was at the same level as the child. |
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An old Gnawa squatted on the cover of the ONB's eponymous album, sticking his tongue out as if to ward off potential enemies. |
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They held rallies, squatted land, and used other forms of civil disobedience. |
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Mr. Harper squatted down beside him, listened intently and was genuinely moved. |
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She went to live close to her sister who squatted in a small gardening allotment. |
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The squatted areas are devoid of any sanitation facilities, creating very poor and unhygienic living conditions. |
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The putt broke late as it was losing speed, and Reavie squatted into a catcher's stance, anguish on his face. |
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Gingerly, about 30 couples lay down and squatted on mats and rugs for the mass face-sit. |
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Hunched figures squatted against the walls in the greenish gloom, working silently, bent over filigree necklaces crafted from melted down meticais, the Mozambican currency. |
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Turning around to face the child, he squatted down to her level. |
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I was so fascinated by ants, wasps, and doodlebugs that I would have squatted in the road all day too, but unfortunately I did not inherit the slow gene. |
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And the aisle all the way to the door bustled with Adivasi vegetable vendors who squatted with their baskets shifting and moving till they found a comfort zone. |
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Daren sat beside her, shivering, and Martin squatted in front of her. |
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They were allowed to take off their blindfolds, but had to cover their eyes every time a guard entered their tiny bare room, where they squatted on mattresses on the ground. |
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Buffy's leather pants creaked as she squatted down next to Angel. |
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Bligh closed his eyes in fear as one of them squatted next to him. |
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At times the book is overly laden with abstractions, but having squatted in refugee camps and watched Los Federales hunt down wetbacks, I felt it to be well anchored. |
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The next morning the sun finally drilled a tunnel through the smother of clouds that squatted on the plain so low I stooped when I got into my Bronco. |
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Council housing lists were long and slow-moving, and some desperate families squatted in disused Army huts in the hope of qualifying for a council house sooner. |
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Squatting had played a more important role in 1980s, but current numbers are low and municipalities probably know about the few remaining squatted houses. |
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A former hospital squatted two weeks earlier is evicted in Bloemendaal. |
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In Italy, the legal right to housing is usually only applied to cases of separation of couples and some cases of squatted social housing and is not yet justiciable. |
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An old, old man in rags squatted on the threshold. |
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There is a substantial alternative and punk scene, which gathers around the Rote Flora, a squatted former theatre located in the Sternschanze. |
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With a quick twerk at her shift, the girl lifted it to her rounded belly, and squatted nakedly on his lap. |
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They clubbed together to buy the squatted land and nearby playgrounds. |
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On a recent afternoon in Ciracas, 20 or so mostly female customers squatted on straw mats as an instructor handed out envelopes marked with different coloured squares to signify things like household expenses and savings. |
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Keramat brought out a murha, a low stool made of woven cane. He squatted on the earth beside me. |
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Once the base closed, soldiers squatted there. |
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In the evening, as Colonel Ba began to mobilize his forces, coils of barbed wire were unrolled around the villagers wherever they had squatted down, and guards were posted, signalling the end of the planless interlude. |
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He squatted down, took a hand full of sand and closed his hand with force. |
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But instead of land being squatted or rented, land plots are sold by landowners on a parallel real-estate market, intended for those who do not have the means to buy into the official market themselves. |
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In some cases this was done in an orderly manner, in other cases the refugees simply squatted and the authorities simply accepted the de facto situation. |
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He squatted at the sight of us, cupped his hands, and clapped them rhythmically — pock, pock, pock, pock, pock, pock, pock — finishing with a half-beat flourish. |
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She gave him a hunk of nuncheon and a bundle of her novelettes, and he stole up to an empty garret and squatted on the bare boards. |
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The boy walked out and squatted and laved up the dark water. |
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The agitators, under the banner of Zamin Adhigrahan Andolan Samittee, squatted on rail tracks at Bodaki leading to the disruption of rail traffic. |
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