That which dashed the whole scene from the dark elevation in which the romance of devotion had placed it was the appearance of slated houses, and of the smoke that curled from the hovels and the prior's residence.
The hovels of the common people were slight erections of turf, or twigs, which, as they were often laid waste by war, were built merely for temporary accommodation.
The dejected little shop furnished me bread, wine, and dried fish and the information that another of the hovels passed for a posada.
The twisting, shoulder-broad channels between the predelugian hovels were strewn with cobblestones, no two of equal size or height, but all polished icy smooth.
Twice or thrice I stumbled into a hamlet in some wrinkle of the range, a village of five or six hovels huddling in the shadow of an enormous, overtowering church, all built of flat field stones and swarming with huge white dogs.
It was siesta-time when I arrived, the sun scorching hot, a burning wind sweeping among the patched and misshapen hovels that made up the place.
It was not strange that in the fog and darkness instinct failed and that when finally I reached a village of eight or nine hovels and inquired its name the inhabitants replied "Figuerina," not in the least like the "La Mesa" I had expected.
These ruins present a sad contrast with the hovels of the wild Arabs, now the only inhabitants of a city which, in former times, emulated Rome.
From the two races in mixed and varying proportion are sprung the artisans and respectable cultivators of India, probably even the untouchable and degraded castes that cluster in dirty hovels on the outskirts of every village.
Among the gipsy and criminal tribes indeed clothes are worn until they drop off from age; and the untouchable castes who perform the lowest menial services and cluster in sordid hovels outside the village also leave much to be desired.
Having left thehovels behind me, the country became less barren or more cultivated.
There are few houses that are not hovels or ruins to be found, except where the land is fertile, and wherever it repays labour the owner loathes a tree that produces nothing but its wood.
A large church seems to domineer over the hovels beneath, its toppling spire leaning as it were with neglect and exhaustion.
And they can have no houses, and will inhabit hovels as long as present conditions remain unchanged.
The women, bony and dressed in skins, surrounded by naked children, came out of their hovels to stare at the passing caravan, with wild expressions of alarm as if the approach of strangers could only bring misfortune.
The two riders set off at a gallop, becoming lost to view among the hovelsgrouped around the base of the temple of Aphrodite.
Beneath the thatches of their hovels small The terror dwells of feeling It is nigh.
They fly toward the forests across the night: And in their passage the fires exhume The hovels and huts from their folds of gloom, Setting them suddenly all alight.
There are likewise some single cells--hovels clustering under a wall, in which criminals who can afford to pay the jailer for them may enjoy the luxury of solitude.
A miserable Kurdish village occupies the interior of this grand fort; the hovels being built, of course, from the hewn stones of the walls.
Here and there out of the chaos rises the fragment of a mighty tower or a massive skeleton archway, and presently we can descry a few wretched Kurdish hovels half hidden among the debris of the great devastated city.
They ran very well, but most of them were captured; and we passed the second night in the nice, nest-like little hovels they had prepared for their own accommodation.
Most of the troops we passed had tents, and some were hutted in hovels made of pine-boughs, thatched with the leaves or twigs of those trees.
I saw several peasants dragged from theirhovels and shot, and the women treated with unnameable barbarity.
It is the usual domed and whitewashed building, surrounded by the hovels of its guardians, standing upon a low flat island of yellow rock, vividly reminding me of certain scenes in Sind.
The governor of the place, Umar bin Abd Al-Aziz, was directed to buy for seven thousand Dinars (ducats) all the hovels of raw brick that hedged in the Eastern side of the old Mosque.
At intervals on the wretched road she met and smiled at the friendly muleteers and gave small coins to the toddling Mexican and Indian children before the wretched hovels scattered along the way.
Usually people come out of the villages in numbers as we arrive, but we passed group after group of ruinous hovels without seeing a creature.
For many miles the only permanent village is a collection of miserable mud hovels round a forlorn caravanserai, in which travellers may find a wretched refuge from the vicissitudes of weather.
In those hovels there were neither accommodation nor supplies, and we decided to push on.
Within the houses or hovels the families are huddled irregularly, with all their appurtenances, and in winter the flocks and herds are in subterranean pens beneath.
Some poor families slept in small hovels made of mud and straw with their pigs, domestic fowl, dogs, and even asses and horses.
A large part of England was rebuilt as yeomen expanded their houses and others lower in rank replaced mud and wood hovels with brick and stone cottages.
The City of London and Westminster were still separate, but a mass of hovels was springing up in between them.
And Oomah started on a run toward the cluster of hovels on the margin of the water.
Even the women and children peeping out of the palm-leaf hovels stopped their chatter and looked with wide-open eyes.
The black rock of the mountain-side softened into purple shadows against the gold of sky and sea, and in this glory the hovels and the people and the misery disappeared.
Under the palms the green masses of vegetation concealed the hovels of the rabble.
A large settlement of ragged thatched huts and clay hovels lay to the west of the cathedral.
At night, from these clusters of hovels surrounded by the banana plantations, there issued a villainous noise, the humming of hived scoundrels.
A few years ago we were accustomed to speak of the dwellers in these floating hovels as beings who dragged out a degraded existence in a far-off land.
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