Sentences with phrase «hovel as»

A downcast, heavyset American girlfriend whose bright orange hair was strewn across his Alphabet City hovel as if a cadre of Angora rabbits had visited.

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Here we see unknown writers in the hills of ancient Judah, seated in simple homes that from the point of view of our present - day luxury might be regarded as little better than hovels, surrounded with furnishings more bare and austere than those of a medieval monastery, equipped with simple reed pens and rolls of papyrus, or perhaps with broken sherds of old pots, as they slowly indite in awkward, ancient Hebrew characters, words that have run like fire and are potent at this distant day.

Forced to pack her bags and move out of the palatial sorority house, the rejected freshman ends up in a rundown hovel known as the Vortex with a group of seven hopeless geeks.

There, he is confronted by one of his classmates, Ben Grimm (Evan Hannemann as a child), whose family operates the facility and lives in an adjoining hovel.

I was born in a hovel on the banks of the Tyne, as so many of us were back then.

This scene of melancholy changes quickly, as his hovel is quickly intruded by Capt. Robert Norton and Sgt. John Carver.

These blob - like parasitic creatures were able to take over rats as hosts, wandering out from their hovels to interact with humanity.

The confessional Emin piece, on the other hand, describing the desolation, despair and self - loathing of a young woman living in a hovel and drinking for company, reads, Breese suggests, almost as an introductory text, sketching the scene of the female artist living and working in an androcentric world.