Round the little monastic church gathered a group of huts with a common refectory, the whole protected by a great rampart of earth.
Lay schools formed by the Druids in old time went on as before, where students of law and history and poetry grouped their huts round the dwelling of a famous teacher, and the poor among them begged their bread in the neighbourhood.
And as he finished he once more glanced nervously around at the huts and shacks in the gloom of the fast-gathering night.
Among those dense forests and thickets the flyers knew many a wild animal was prowling at that very moment, and in the thatched huts in the glens slept many a fierce-visaged savage with weapons close at hand.
The former seemed to be nothing more than rude huts with rounded thatched roofs covered by saplings.
Many of the huts in their villages consist of but a single apartment, large enough for a person to lie down lengthwise in it, but not more than 5 feet wide.
I once intended to count these buildings only with windows, as houses; but I soon discovered that some huts had windows only on one or several sides, and looked like stables on the other sides!
In these miserable huts the poor blacks are herded at night like swine, without any conveniences of beadsteads, tables or chairs.
They are away at their work by day-break, and do not return to their huts till dark.
These hutsthe slaves built themselves after task and on Sundays.
Their huts are generally built compactly on the plantations, forming villages of huts, their size proportioned to the number of slaves on them.
These hutsare occupied by eight, ten or twelve persons each.
When they return to their miserable huts at night, they find not there the means of comfortable rest; but on the cold ground they must lie without covering, and shiver while they slumber.
The Western Medical Reformer, in an article on the Cachexia Africana by a Kentucky physician, thus speaks of the huts of the slaves.
I have heard some of them in their hutsbefore day-light praying in their simple broken language, telling their heavenly Father of their trials in the following and similar language.
On this plantation the huts were uncommonly convenient.
The huts of the slaves are mostly of the poorest kind.
Far away, on the outer shores of Dunvegan Loch, we can faintly descry, in the glow of the evening, some crofter's huts on the slopes of the hill.
When we get up on deck again, we find that the White Dove is gently gliding out of the lonely Loch Scresorst, with its solitary house among the trees, and its crofters' hutsat the base of the sombre hills.
A well-cleaned gridiron was stuck upright in the earth by the handle, and at the entrance to one of the huts the man who was a butcher was cutting a huge piece of fresh meat into steaks.
The outlaws were encamped at that time in certain abandoned huts which the Duca di Fornasco had built as a safe retreat for some of his people during the cholera season of 1884.
Here and there, every two or three miles, there are groups of deserted huts built of black tufo, doorless and windowless, and almost always on the edge of some bit of arable land that stretches westward between two old lava beds.
In the guerilla warfare which breaks out periodically between the carabineers and the outlaws, the stone huts are important points of vantage, and once or twice have been the scene of hard-fought battles.
The remaining outlaws were to return at once to the huts in the woods and get their horses there.
In the evening, the huts of the different tribes are built as near to each other as practicable, each tribe locating itself in the direction from whence it came.
Occasionally native men, in very cold weather, are both without huts and clothing of any kind.
Such is the custom requiring all boys and uninitiated young men to sleep at some distance from the huts of the adults, and to remove altogether away in the morning as soon as daylight dawns, and the natives begin to move about.
The huts of the natives were numerous, and of a large and substantial description; but we saw none of their owners.
It has already been remarked, that where many natives meet together, the arrangements of their respective huts depends upon the direction they have come from.
About noon the weather cleared up a little, and after getting up and watering the horses, we collected a large quantity of firewood and made waterproof huts for ourselves.
I have myself repeatedly seen the natives driven off private lands in the vicinity of Adelaide, and their huts burned, even in cold wet weather.
The materials of which the huts are composed, are generally small branches or boughs of trees, covered in wet weather with grass, or other similar material.
At other times, large long huts are constructed, in which, from five to ten families reside, each having their own separate fire.
The sizes of these huts depends upon the facilities that may be afforded for making them, the number of natives, and the state of the weather.
The rest of the town is composed of ordinary buildings of unhewn stone, and huts of rushes and long grass, with narrow avenues winding between them.
The largest is the river Nazareth on the left point of which is situated King Gula's town the only assemblage of huts in the bay.
The men loitered about the trenches carelessly, or busied themselves in constructing ingenious huts out of the abundant timber, and seemed as snug, comfortable, and happy, as though they were at home.
Taking a drink and lighting a cigar, I walked to a row of negro-huts close by, entered one and found a soldier or two warming themselves by a wood-fire.
They dwell mostly in tents, and in huts which can be transported from place to place.
In this place they erected several huts for their accommodation during winter; and they one day found in the thickets a German named Tyrker, one of their own people, who had wandered among the woods and been missing for some time.
There are also a great number of small huts built, in different parts of the valley, for shelter to these birds, during the severity of winter, where they are regularly fed by the keepers.
They camped in rudehuts made of fence rails, corn-stalks, and brushwood.
Deciding to winter here, they built huts and a stockade, calling the camp Fort Mandan.
His churches were mere huts or wigwams built of reeds and bark, after the manner of the natives.
These huts were foully kept, and all manner of camp diseases prevailed; pulmonary complaints and rheumatism were particularly frequent, and both men and women looked old and haggard before they reached middle age.
The larger tumuli were, no doubt, the commanding sites of council houses or of the huts of chiefs.
In the old mound building days, the huts of the village leaders or chiefs were no doubt built upon the tops of the mounds, while the common people lived on the lower level.
The distant pastures became blatant and the poultry near the huts of rustics cackled in wild dismay.
There were the huts to the north of the Marsh and the deserted village of Toora to search.
The Deswars are also called Dui Duaria or 'Those having two doors,' because they have a back door to their huts which is used only by women during their monthly period of impurity and kept shut at all other times.
They are a very primitive people, and it is stated that at the census several of them left their huts and fled into the jungle, and were with difficulty induced to return.
Pegs had therefore to be planted in the ground a little in front of the huts and marked with their numbers.
The Baigas never live in a village with other castes, but have their hutssome distance away from the village in the jungle.
In many villages they have not yet built proper houses, but continue to live in mud huts thatched with grass.
At the time of the census they threatened to kill the enumerator if he touched their huts to affix the census number.
They travel about in little huts like those used by the Waddars; the men occasionally sell buffaloes and milk; the women beg, singing and accompanying themselves on the thali.
Some are the fences built around graves, and others are the foundations of round houses like the huts which wood-cutters still make for their temporary lodging when they are at work in a coppice.
Compare also the curious resemblances in the structure of stone huts in the Scotch islands where trees could not be used, and especially the position of the beds in the walls or in the rough aisles.
To his eye they seemed mere huts made of boughs of trees twisted together, easily constructed, and lasting scarcely more than a season.
The young thane, with his lord's permission, makes a clearing in a forest, building his log hut and then other log hutsfor his servants.
All the cattle were housed, and in all the huts and homesteads men and women rejoiced and feasted.
Behind the bank or line our huts stood, having three other huts behind them at a good distance.
Immediately fifteen or sixteen of them came and mingled among us, and went to work for us; and indeed, they were better workmen than we were, for they run up three or four huts for us in a moment, and much handsomer done than ours.
We passed by some of their huts or houses, and saw people about them, but they ran up into the hills as soon as they saw us.
We saw no towns on the shore, but often saw some huts by the water-side upon the rocks, and always abundance of people about them, who we could perceive run together to stare at us.
Here we found the difference of lodging greatly injurious to us; for, as before, we always made us huts to sleep under, which covered us from the night air, which is particularly unwholesome in those hot countries.
The huts are built of mud; most of them are flat-topped, but some are thatched with rushes.
The prisoners were taken out of their dungeon and led across a desert under the burning sun, and past rocks of strange forms, until they reached a range of mountains with a colony of huts at its base.
These huts were inhabited by human beings, who, with chains on their feet, were driven every morning into the shaft of a mine and there compelled to hew grains of gold out of the stony rock.
Muskrats repair and enlarge their huts in the fall, and perhaps subsequently gnaw out as much from the inside as they add to the exterior.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "huts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
