These shanties are generally constructed to accommodate from two to three gangs of lumber men, with shed-room for twelve or fourteen span of oxen or horses span being the Canadian term for pair.
The Dummer people had no shanties built for them, no cows, and were given much worse land; and yet they have done much more in a shorter time.
Jack kept his head low in order to be sheltered as long as possible by the shanties on shore and the sampans crowded at the water's edge; Sowinski, he felt, would not hesitate to take a shot at him.
The wooden shanties that formerly lined the shore had for the most part given place to more solid and imposing structures of brick and stone.
Footsteps overhead and the singing of shanties on deck awoke me at daybreak, but I was intensely ill, so stayed in bed all day.
Shanties were sung with vigor and we pulled with a will.
The row back was a pleasure, and our joyfulshanties could be heard for a long distance.
In a short while there are more little shanties than ever, and the burnt district is forgotten.
These keepers of shanties were a peculiar race, and, at the cost of a digression, it may be interesting to explain how they managed to amass considerable sums of money in a land where travellers were few and far between.
The skirmish line moved on, the ranks halted, and all about the Moggeson ranch hundreds of yellow shanties sparkled at dawn like flecks of gold on a carpet of green velvet.
Hundreds of shantieswere battened up and deserted.
On the bank or shore, up and down as far as I have seen, are negro shanties which look as if put up for a few days only.
The negroes and their shanties are all I can see of Newport News.
General Dow has cleared the peddlers out of camp and torn down some shanties near, where pies, etc.
We have landed at Newport News; so they call it, but there are only a few shanties in sight, and beside each one is a huge pile of oyster shells.
One of their first works was to buy up lots and dwellings in the worst districts of Toronto, where miserable shanties and hovels stood in fetid slums, as foul as any in London or Glasgow.
The hovels and shanties were then torn down, and respectable dwellings erected in their stead.
My patients would do better inshanties than they will here.
The remainder, half sick themselves, thin and yellow ghosts in ragged uniforms, crawl out of their diminutive shanties and go calmly to their duties without murmuring, without a desertion.
Quite a number crawled into the deserted shantiesand went to sleep, apparently worn out with the night's work and watching.
I had to put up for the night in one of those miserable up-country log shanties where you can study astronomy all night through the chinks in the roof, and where the man and wife sleep one side of you and the children and dogs on the other.
At long intervals we have passed a few board shanties like card houses grouped together near the track; just fancy living there, Mamma!
We passed one or two smaller camps on the way to Osages, with board shanties and a shaft here and there sticking up from the earth.
Then his eyes grew all misty and sad, and he looked out on the desert, and at that moment we were passing a group of a few shantiesclose to the rails.
Many a time have I come into their shanties on a snowy morning and found the people asleep with the snow lying thick on their bed-clothes.
Tenements and wobbly-kneed shanties swarming with exhibits monopolized the landscape; strange the room that did not yield up at least a man and woman and three or four children.
But now all shabbiness had disappeared and many-gabled "cottages" proudly stood where the shanties of the Poverty Laners once humbly leaned.
Beyond it was a cluster of grayshanties and a gleam of water, evidently a wharf and a miniature harbor.
In the wide and well-timbered bottom of the Arkansa, the Mormons had erected a street of log shanties in which to pass the inclement winter.
The lighthouse was a white dot and the fish shanties a blotch of brown.
They owned the land, and the shanties were theirs.
Some men realized a snug income from the rental of the shantieswhich were erected on good business sites in these streets.
The shanties where the sick lay, little better than sheds, had been very good for them but very trying sometimes to the watchers.
The sick people had been at the first removed to the end of the valley, in some shanties apart from all the rest; and there he and they had been in quarantine together.
A double row of unpainted board shanties led straight to the water's edge.
He paused to scowl over the shanties of his immediate neighbors and at the industrious washerwoman up the dock.
The min do be sittin' up in th' bunk-shanties to hear ut.
The canoe had not gone half a mile when the Chechessee River opened fully to view, and a pretty little hammock, with two or three shanties beneath its trees, could be plainly seen on Daw's Island.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shanties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
