Sentences with phrase «small clapboard»

He is God's clinically depressed man — a former military chaplain, an alcoholic haunted by his son's death in the Iraq War, privately humiliated by the example of Christ and the stern Dutch ministers who once hid runaway slaves under the floorboards of this small clapboard church.

Weeks later I sit with my seven - year - old son in a small clapboard house on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

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On one side is a verdant park, with a gazebo and a children's slide, surrounded by a handful of small, tidy clapboard homes with well - tended lawns.

Toller's church, with its slender steeple and whitewashed clapboards, evokes both a bygone era of American Christianity and a battered civic order, a small - town world of hard work, humility and faith.

A handful of streets lead through the small village of seaside restaurants, lodges, pubs, shops and clapboard houses in many bright colors.

Here, in what was then a small white clapboard house, Bradbury wrote much of what would become his celebrated book, The Martian Chronicles