mud hut


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mud hut

ncapanna di fango
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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As Tarzan was dickering at Bouira for a mount he caught a brief glimpse of a man in European clothes eying him from the doorway of a native coffeehouse, but as Tarzan looked the man turned and entered the little, low-ceilinged mud hut, and but for a haunting impression that there had been something familiar about the face or figure of the fellow, Tarzan gave the matter no further thought.
Still there is an infinity of mud huts, and abominable hovels.
In came cities of unprecedented bulk, but held together so closely by a web-work of steel rails and copper wires that they have become more alert and cooperative than any tiny hamlet of mud huts on the banks of the Congo.
Living on the floor of her adopted family's mud hut, Livia shares in their personal dramas, tribal traditions and rites of passage.
Indeed, from this county, we owe a great debt to the sons and daughters of this county from General Mwariama, whose widow mama Jacinta joins us today, to generals Nkungi, Baimungi, Ruku and all the other heroes who fought for Kenya to be free, the president saidUnbeknown to President Kenyatta, Ms Jacinta died on April 29 this year.Ms Mwariama, who acted as a spy for the Mau Mau, died poor aged 74 and was living in a mud hut in Timau.
According to the police, the incident took place in Rawat Bazaar, near the foot of the mountains when the mud hut that the four-member family of 27-year-old Bashir Wahab were residing was struck by a landslide.
"They truly thought that strapping him to a log and locking him in a mud hut for two years was the best course of action.
Eco warrior DANIEL PIKE, 28, who lives in a solar-powered mud hut in Watford, Herts, is ordered to leave by the council.
As he attempts to understand their motivations for the move, he suffers from the heat, is attacked by swarms of biting insects and shares his mud hut with a large scorpion, but begins to appreciate the rewards of a simple jungle life.
A man in a mud hut answers a mobile phone, but he's the only member of his tribe to own one and has to walk into town to charge it.
His father is a farmer and his grandfather lives with the family in their simple mud hut. Solomon's grandfather says very little but demands respect and good manners from his grandchildren.