Vocabulary Word
Word: hovel
Definition: shack; small wretched house
Definition: shack; small wretched house
Sentences Containing 'hovel'
The hovel of a cutter of wood into lengths for burning, was the only house at that end; all else was wall.
But compare the spacious palace and great wardrobe of the one, with the hovel and the few rags of the other, and you will be sensible that the difference between their clothing, lodging, and household furniture, is almost as great in quantity as it is in quality.
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