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I should become Mrs. "Hovel," or Mrs. "Backyard" -- you dog there, that's wearing my collar; you lackey with my coat of arms on your buttons -- and I should share with my cook, and be the rival of my own servant.
Plays by August Strindberg, Second series August Strindberg 1880
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You know, perhaps, that Mr Cooper call'd on me when in town, — Hercules in a Hovel!
Letter 217 2009
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…Or, to be more accurate, perhaps I should instead have entitled it “An Account of my Wretched Box-like Hovel.”
An Account of my Dwelling (for Kamo no Chômei) Marc Lowe 2011
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Both Ulfgar and Yng were feeling very ill from the food at Stiltzkin's Hovel; they had to remain within close proximity of the toilet and under the care of Doctor Huckstable.
D&D on Tuesday nathreee 2008
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I recall Carol Burnett did a howlingly funny take of off Enchanted Cottage, called “Enchanted Hovel”; humor as only Ms. Burnett could do it, with the able assistance of Lesbian Van Penis.
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In the second act, the Heir and the Friend, ambushed in a Peasant Hovel, made the most creative use of a ladder, a table, and a stool that Alberich had ever seen.
Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003
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In the second act, the Heir and the Friend, ambushed in a Peasant Hovel, made the most creative use of a ladder, a table, and a stool that Alberich had ever seen.
Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003
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When they passed the Bush Hovel they saw the Wise Woman currying her broomstick, and Viola cried:
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The Wise Woman was at home; from afar the King saw her sitting outside the Hovel mending her broom with a withe from the Bush.
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Nevertheless, he kept Pepper's head in a beeline for Chanctonbury, never noticing how very ill she was going, and presently crossed the great High Road beyond which lay the Bush Hovel.
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