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  • One strike against going upstairs was its limited options for quick escape (from squatters or ghouls or whatever else my anxious mind could invent) other than hurling myself from an upper-story window.†   (source)
  • Everybody came out—hay farmers, clerks, merchants, fishermen, crabbers, carpenters, loggers, net weavers, truck farmers, junk dealers, real estate brigands, hack poets, ministers, lawyers, sailors, squatters, millwrights, cedar rats, teamsters, plumbers, mushroom foragers, and holly pruners.†   (source)
  • The place was called Taylor's Camp, because the land these squatters lived on was owned by a relative of actress Elizabeth Taylor.†   (source)
  • Here and there were sheds and huts put together from scavenged materials — sheets of tin, slabs of plywood — and inhabited no doubt by squatters.†   (source)
  • There were no bodies to hurdle: the squatters were gone.†   (source)
  • For various reasons I was apprehensive about accommodations, and ready to make my excuses in case they involved anything like squatter conditions or sleeping on the floor.†   (source)
  • Dodge picked up his pace when they passed Heart Palace-now fallen into disrepair and occupied by stimulant-addled squatters-on their way to the Five Spires of Redd construction site.†   (source)
  • Renters, they called themselves, the city word for the squatters we pity here in the country Dede and Jaimito had lost everything so many times, it was hard to keep up with their frequent moves.†   (source)
  • At the base of a column was a large box, apparently the home of an out-of-work squatter.†   (source)
  • Not exactly clean of us, but it was better than alerting the management they had hosted a bunch of squatters for the night.†   (source)
  • Mr. de Klerk asked Mr. Vlok for an explanation and then Vlok, in a rather rude tone,asked me on whose property the shacks were located, the implication being that these people were squatters and therefore had no rights.†   (source)
  • Squatters occupied a number of floors.†   (source)
  • Winterfell had been crawling with squatters when Bolton's van had reached the castle.†   (source)
  • Cange, the squatter settlement, lay in the midst of this arid desolation, half a mile up the road from the huge freshwater reservoir.†   (source)
  • At night, the cooking fires of squatters living in it gave the structure a sinister jack-o-lantern glow.†   (source)
  • The picture switched to a live feed in front of the state prison, where there were squatters with tents and people holding placards and ....was that a chorus line of wheelchairs?†   (source)
  • We didn't want to start training and run up on some homeless squatter.†   (source)
  • The boy, like the squatter on the edge of the desert who kept the bird (Zoltan, the gunslinger re-membered abruptly, the bird's name was Zoltan), had lost his sense of time, but the fact that the man in black was closer seemed beyond doubt Not for the first time, the gunslinger wondered if the man in black was letting him catch up for some reason of his own.†   (source)
  • Was that the squatter's house we'd visited in Washington?†   (source)
  • The old Tijuana track was reduced to a squatter's haven, and Pollard and Woolf set up shop across town.†   (source)
  • Tejanos, as people of Mexican descent were called in Texas, were beaten and often murdered as squatters quickly occupied their lands.†   (source)
  • You forget that our enemy is the horde of illegal squatters, no matter what nation they come from, who have settled in the Red Reserve.†   (source)
  • Just a squatter.†   (source)
  • Were the squatters there in touch with others, through Tristero; were they helping carry forward that 300 years of the house's disinheritance?†   (source)
  • Squatters had taken over the downstairs part, cooking on fire stones in the verandah and throwing out their rubbish onto the courtyards and grounds.†   (source)
  • But the final war, as usual, proved to be the next-to-the-final, and Bastion West Side's shattered buildings and gutted alleys were patched into a crazy slum by squatters.†   (source)
  • The squatters nodded--they knew, God knew.   (source)
  • When they go back to the squatters' camps they'll be hard to handle.   (source)
  • Here, I'll read it: "Citizens, angered at red agitators, burn squatters' camp."   (source)
  • Then, with time, the squatters were no longer squatters, but owners; and their children grew up and had children on the land.   (source)
  • Last night a band of citizens, infuriated at the agitation going on in a local squatters' camp, burned the tents to the ground and warned agitators to get out of the county.   (source)
  • At night the adjacent rooms filled up with other squatters.†   (source)
  • After he'd spent a few nights there, one of the squatters told Deo he had to pay him rent.†   (source)
  • The squatters and campers in the street seemed to have gone into hiding.†   (source)
  • The squatters, timid and half-starved, had moved out as soon as they had been asked.†   (source)
  • I motioned to Fang, but just as he started toward me, the two crackhead squatters lurched into the hall between us.†   (source)
  • Do those peasant squatters south of here know that you've read Newton, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith?†   (source)
  • Squatters.†   (source)
  • This is the six-story flank of a squatters' tenement on which graffiti writers spray-paint an angel every time a local child dies of illness or mistreatment.†   (source)
  • On a morning soon afterward, another of the squatters came up holding a knife and asked Deo for money.†   (source)
  • Working people, shopkeepers, maybe some drifters and squatters but not many, and then she notices a group near the front, fitted snug to the prowed shape of the island—they're the charismatics from the top floor of the tenement in the Wall, dressed mainly in floppy white, tublike women, reedy men in dreadlocks.†   (source)
  • TWO New York City, 1994 Deo felt he wasn't really here, as he left the abandoned tenement in the morning and saw the empty bottles and remnants of dinner and soiled babies' diapers that other squatters left behind, and the roaches and rats that skittered away as he passed by.†   (source)
  • Thirty per cent are laborers, labor tenants, and squatters on white farms and work and live under conditions similar to those of the serfs of the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • She thought of other, immobilized freight cars, where the kids sat on the floor planking and sang back, happy as fat, whatever came over the mother's pocket radio; of other squatters who stretched canvas for lean-tos behind smiling billboards along all the highways, or slept in junkyards in the stripped shells of wrecked Plymouths, or even, daring, spent the night up some pole in a lineman's tent like caterpillars, swung among a web of telephone wires, living in the very copper rigging and secular miracle of communication, untroubled by the dumb voltages flickering their miles, the night long, in the thousands of unheard messages.†   (source)
  • To me it all felt far away—the nightclub, the town, the squatters, the expatriates, "the situation of the country"; everything had just become background.†   (source)
  • I saw the empty spaces of the Domain, and the squatters from the villages camping just outside; and my thoughts were of Yvette and her life on the Domain.†   (source)
  • The cites filled up, and new ones were built, though nothing that was done could cope with the movement of people from the villages; we never lost the squatters and campers in our central streets and squares.†   (source)
  • A familiar building; officials I knew and could palaver with; people whose faces I understood; one of our old disinfected taxis; the well-known lumpy road to the town, at first through bush which had distinguishing features, then past the squatters' settlements.†   (source)
  • There were the cites and the squatters' settlements (some of them I was driving into for the first time) with their hills of rubbish, their corrugated dusty lanes, and a lot of old tires lying in the dust.†   (source)
  • And to leave the Domain and drive back to the town, to see the shacks, acres and acres of them, the rubbish mounds, to feel the presence of the river and the forest all around (more than landscaping now), to see the ragged groups outside the drinking booths, the squatters' cooking fires on the pavements in the centre of the town— to do that drive back was to return to the Africa I knew.†   (source)
  • With Père Lafontant's blessing, Farmer began to focus on the wretched, dusty squatter settlement up the road in Cange.†   (source)
  • The second incident occurred in November, when a group of Inkatha members entered a squatter camp known as Zonkizizwe (Zulu for "the place where all nations are welcome") outside the city of Germiston, east of Johannesburg, and drove ANC people out, killing a number of them in the process.†   (source)
  • He learned, too, about the central importance of "maternal mortality"—how the deaths of mothers, common events in those squatter settlements, led to skeins of catastrophes in families, to hunger and prostitution, to disease and other deaths.†   (source)
  • One day he'd be inside the teaching hospitals of Boston, receiving instruction in the highest current standards of medical care, and the next morning he'd be climbing out of a tap-tap, his face gray with dust, into the squatter settlement in the parched high ground above the dam, where there was no medicine, let alone standards of care.†   (source)
  • They were an immensely tall people; and, as Metty told me with awe, they were used to being carried around on litters by their slaves, who were of a smaller, squatter race.†   (source)
  • And then the raids—the swoop of armed deputies on the squatters' camps.†   (source)
  • — I heard he was gone to Orlando, and lives there amongst the squatters in Shanty Town.†   (source)
  • There are people from the Municipality working amongst the squatters, and they know them all.†   (source)
  • Where the squatters live is not so big, umfundisi.†   (source)
  • We are the squatters.†   (source)
  • Squatters, they call us.†   (source)
  • My master owns the land, and your father was ordered to drive off these English squatters.†   (source)
  • Half a dozen squatters from a degenerate colony in a brush-hidden hollow, planters of potatoes, suspected thieves, came in noisily drunk.†   (source)
  • When Martin insisted that in six miles the creek would purify any waste and that the squatters were probably not the cause, he was amply denounced.†   (source)
  • The villagers believed that it came from a tribe of squatters six miles up the creek, and they considered lynching the offenders, as a practical protest and an interesting break in wheat-farming.†   (source)
  • Among all these squatters and folks of the road the reddleman continually found himself; yet he was not of them.†   (source)
  • There's some folks talk of a deer or two being killed out of season, over on the west side of the Patent, by some of the squatters on the 'Fractions.'†   (source)
  • The way I was living was becoming crude, and I was learning some squatter lessons.†   (source)
  • "So w'y is id a double sin?" the squatter's provoked voice demanded.†   (source)
  • The office had the appearance of a squatter's shack or end house of a Western street.†   (source)
  • The eleven-year-old son of the squatter shot and killed the deputy with a .22 rifle.†   (source)
  • They floundered on foot some eight miles to a squatter's cabin, rented horses, and completed their journey by starlight.†   (source)
  • Guy Francon was very impressive as the Frink National Bank Building, although the structure looked a little squatter than in the original, in order to allow for Francon's stomach; the Hadrian torch over his head had a real electric bulb lit by a miniature battery.†   (source)
  • I roared on out about ten miles till I hit the pine woods where there wasn't anybody to snatch up except hoot owls and some stray malarial squatter who would be lying off yonder as God's gift to the anopheles in his shack on the edge of the tidelands.†   (source)
  • Quote: In Lawrenceville a deputy sheriff evicted a squatter, and the squatter resisted, making it necessary for the officer to use force.†   (source)
  • "They have robbed the squatter of his beasts!" said the attentive trapper.†   (source)
  • Tom is no squatter, not being on land; I call him a floater.†   (source)
  • The squatter beckoned the child away, and placed the leaves in the hands of the criminal.†   (source)
  • The squatter raised his rifle, with extreme care, and fired.†   (source)
  • They have lost the trail of the squatter, and are on its hunt.†   (source)
  • nothing more nor less than the squatter's hidden, ravenous, dangerous beast!†   (source)
  • The summons of the unnurtured squatter brought an immediate accession to their party.†   (source)
  • "Abiram, out with your grievances like a man," interrupted the squatter, with a hoarse laugh.†   (source)
  • Within a mile, the squatter overtook his teams.†   (source)
  • As you live, they have found the place where the miserable son of the squatter met his death!†   (source)
  • "I am not about to set myself up as a ruler of inclinations," observed the squatter.†   (source)
  • "Follow," returned the squatter, again grasping his rifle, and striding towards the rock.†   (source)
  • The group, of whom we write, was composed of the family of the squatter.†   (source)
  • The hesitation of the squatter was consequently of short duration.†   (source)
  • The squatter stopped, and for a moment he covered his ears with his hands.†   (source)
  • Another such leap, and you may laugh at all the squatter's bars and walls.†   (source)
  • "'Tis done," said the squatter, motioning for his assistants to follow the herds and teams.†   (source)
  • "It must be so," said the gloomy but attentive squatter.†   (source)
  • "Young man," interrupted the squatter, with a dark frown, "you, too, have said enough.†   (source)
  • "Let her, if she dare!" the squatter muttered in his teeth.†   (source)
  • A second discharge from the rifles of the squatter and his party completed the victory.†   (source)
  • For the first time, in many a day, the squatter turned his back towards the setting sun.†   (source)
  • As the squatter uttered his wild conceit, he laughed from the very bottom of his chest, in scorn.†   (source)
  • The sons of the squatter set about their melancholy office, in silence and in sadness.†   (source)
  • "Don't call the squatter a friend of mine!" interrupted the youth.†   (source)
  • Here the squatter found himself at a point that commanded a view to the east and to the west.†   (source)
  • The squatter and his brood are within a mile or two of this blessed spot!†   (source)
  • "Nell!" continued the squatter, "away with you, fool!†   (source)
  • The squatter was troubled, and at length he yielded in part to the petitions of the criminal.†   (source)
  • Not far from me was a little one-roomed squatter's hut of wood, surrounded by a patch of potato garden.†   (source)
  • On fair nights he would sleep in the park or on a truck or an empty barrel or box, and when it was rainy or cold he would stow himself upon a shelf in a ten-cent lodginghouse, or pay three cents for the privileges of a "squatter" in a tenement hallway.†   (source)
  • In all......$28.12+ These are all the materials, excepting the timber, stones, and sand, which I claimed by squatter's right.†   (source)
  • Judge Temple, the landlord and owner of a township, with Nathaniel Bumppo a lawless squatter, and professed deer-killer, in order to preserve the game of the county!†   (source)
  • I put no manure whatever on this land, not being the owner, but merely a squatter, and not expecting to cultivate so much again, and I did not quite hoe it all once.†   (source)
  • While the agitated parent was listening to the vivid description that his daughter gave of her recent danger, and her unexpected escape, all thoughts of mines, vested rights, and examinations were absorbed in emotion; and when the image of Natty again crossed his recollection, it was not as a law Less and depredating squatter, but as the preserver of his child.†   (source)
  • "Owners!" echoed the squatter, "I am as rightful an owner of the land I stand on, as any governor in the States!†   (source)
  • The teeth of the squatter were compressed, and his huge hand grasped the rifle, as if it would crush the metal.†   (source)
  • are the words which the squatter says, to be as honey in your mouth, and all other promises like so much useless comb?†   (source)
  • It will serve to keep the squatter and his brood under cover, and for ourselves there is little reason to fear.†   (source)
  • "Ay, it is so," returned the squatter, glancing his eye towards his humble camp; "but something might be done, with the wagons and the cotton-wood."†   (source)
  • A distant shout was heard in the direction of the approaching party of the squatter, assuring the female garrison that succour was not far distant.†   (source)
  • "Friend!" repeated the squatter, eyeing the other for an instant, with an expression of indefinable meaning.†   (source)
  • Here the squatter was found, staggering under the weight of a fine fat buck, attended by one or two of his younger sons.†   (source)
  • The sun is beginning to fall already, and many minutes cannot elapse before the squatter and his savage brood will be returning to their huts.†   (source)
  • As he spoke, the squatter glanced his eye upward at the little tenement of cloth which crowned the summit of his ragged fortress.†   (source)
  • "There is then a better choice towards the other Ocean?" demanded the squatter, pointing in the direction of the Pacific.†   (source)
  • Volley swiftly succeeded volley, until the enraged squatter was reluctantly compelled to abandon the idea of injuring his enemies by means so feeble.†   (source)
  • "The whole truth is out, Ellen," Paul continued, "and we have lined the squatter into his most secret misdoings.†   (source)
  • On the following morning the teams and herds of the squatter were seen pursuing their course towards the settlements.†   (source)
  • The squatter, who was in truth slowly retiring, instantly halted his party, and showed a willing front.†   (source)
  • "And now, Abiram White," said the squatter, when his sons had descended from completing this arrangement, "I give you a last and solemn asking.†   (source)
  • The squatter laid his broad hand on the bosom of the dead, and said— "Abiram White, we all have need of mercy; from my soul do I forgive you!†   (source)
  • Throughout the whole of a ceremony, which is ever solemn and admonitory, the squatter had maintained a grave and serious deportment.†   (source)
  • "The animal has still life in him," returned the squatter, "or the buzzards would settle upon their prey!†   (source)
  • I, too, know something of that very wagon, and I may say that I have lined the squatter down into a flat lie.†   (source)
  • The squatter found his children expecting his return in the usual listless manner with which they awaited all coming events.†   (source)
  • The squatter had collected his beasts and loaded his wagons, as a measure of precaution, before proceeding to the extremity he contemplated.†   (source)
  • —For the stout sons of the squatter will make a manly brush of it, or I am but little of a judge in warlike dispositions!†   (source)
  • Let us draw the truth out of him; for an unlucky war-party may prove more dangerous to us than a visit from the whole family of the squatter.†   (source)
  • The entrance of Obed at such a moment into the camp, accompanied as it was by vociferous lamentations over his anticipated loss, did not fail to rouse the drowsy family of the squatter.†   (source)
  • "A buffaloe—and a noble and powerful creatur' has it been!" returned the squatter, who looked down calmly on the fatal signs which so strangely affected his wife.†   (source)
  • The tent was struck, the females placed upon the horses, and the whole were on the way towards the squatter's encampment, with a celerity that might well have served to keep alive the idea of magic.†   (source)
  • Lord, squatter, when I was a man in the pride and strength of my days, I have looked in at the tent door of the enemy, and they sleeping, ay, and dreaming too, of being at home and in peace!†   (source)
  • Render, therefore, the effects of this lawless and wicked squatter,—nay, children, such disregard of human life, is frightful in those who have so recently received the gift, in their own persons!†   (source)
  • I cannot say that; I cannot say that; matters are not as they should be, atween the squatter and the Tetons, nor will I answer as yet for the safety of any scalp among us.†   (source)
  • A pile of dried leaves and splinters were placed, as a beacon, on the upper rock, and then, even in the jealous judgment of the squatter, the post was deemed competent to maintain a creditable siege.†   (source)
  • A long rifle would have thrown a bullet from the height, on which the squatter now stood, into the very cover where the fugitives, who had wrought all this mischief, were clustered.†   (source)
  • "Now, yonder, is a thicket before us," he continued, pointing forward, "where we may lie till tall trees grow on these naked fields, afore any of the squatter's kin will venture to molest us."†   (source)
  • Without waiting for approbation or dissent, the squatter advanced to the base of the rock, which formed a sort of perpendicular wall, nearly twenty feet high around the whole acclivity.†   (source)
  • "Mischief," deliberately returned the squatter; but with a cool expression of defiance in his eye that showed how little he was moved by the ill-concealed humour of his children.†   (source)
  • It is wise, however, to speak him fair, for a single arm thrown into either party, if we come to blows with the squatter and his brood, may turn the day.†   (source)
  • "Ask no questions that may lead to deceitful answers," sullenly returned the squatter; "I have dealings of my own with that trapper, that it may not befit an officer of the States to meddle with.†   (source)
  • When the melancholy maiden took her seat on the point of the rock as mentioned, Paul affected to employ himself in conducting a close inspection of the household effects of the squatter.†   (source)
  • The pursuits of the naturalist frequently led him, however, for days at a time, from the direct line of the route of the squatter, who rarely seemed to have any other guide than the sun.†   (source)
  • The dull smile, with which the squatter answered to this assurance, proved how little he valued the pledge that the youth, in the first revulsion of his feelings, was so free to make.†   (source)
  • The phlegm with which the squatter learned his loss, has already been seen, and it now remains to exhibit the results of his more matured determinations.†   (source)
  • "Yes, there is too much truth in his words, squatter," said the trapper, whose attentive ears rarely suffered a syllable to be utterly unheeded in his presence.†   (source)
  • In short, the family of the squatter, or at least such among them as were capable of bearing arms, appeared in view, on the broad prairie, evidently bent on revenging their wrongs.†   (source)
  • "He died as a son of mine should die," said the squatter, gleaning a hollow consolation from so unnatural an exultation: "a dread to his enemy to the last, and without help from the law!†   (source)
  • The immovable old man smiled, with an expression of singular intelligence, as he answered— "Friend squatter, you ask what few men would be willing to grant.†   (source)
  • At length the squatter, who had waited in vain for some more decided manifestation of the expected rising among his sons, resolved to make a demonstration of his own intentions.†   (source)
  • Little time, however, was given to arrange his thoughts; for the squatter, though unaccustomed to haste, having previously made up his mind, was not disposed to waste the moments in delay.†   (source)
  • In this dilemma the squatter was obliged to constitute the girl herself castellan; taking care, however, in deputing this important trust, to omit no words of caution and instruction.†   (source)
  • It was long before any of the spectators broke the silence; but the squatter, at length, so far recollected his authority, as to take on himself the right to control the movements of his children.†   (source)
  • "So thought my boy," returned the squatter, motioning for the team, that contained his wife and the girls, to proceed, as he very coolly examined the priming of his piece.†   (source)
  • The sons of Ishmael turned away in horror at the disgusting spectacle, and even the stern nature of the squatter began to bend before so abject misery.†   (source)
  • When the signal was made to proceed, the squatter threw his rifle into the hollow of his arm, and his axe across his shoulder, taking the lead as usual.†   (source)
  • The action of the squatter was too sudden and unexpected to admit of prevention, but the instant it was done, his sons manifested, in an unequivocal manner, the temper with which they witnessed the desperate measure.†   (source)
  • The tents of the squatter were still in sight, and his wary cunning did not fail to apprise him, that it was quite as necessary to guard against an attack from that quarter as to watch the motions of his more open and more active foes.†   (source)
  • First casting a cautious and suspicious glance on every side of him, the squatter and his companion advanced to the little wagon, and caused it to enter within the folds of the cloth, much in the manner that it had been extricated the preceding evening.†   (source)
  • The brow of the chief contracted in an ominous frown, that threatened instant destruction to the audacious squatter; but as suddenly recollecting his policy, he craftily replied— "A girl is too light for the hand of such a brave.†   (source)
  • When each had assumed his proper and customary place around the smoking viands, the squatter set the example by beginning to partake of a delicious venison steak, prepared like the hump of the bison, with a skill that rather increased than concealed its natural properties.†   (source)
  • It was the only article, in the nature of a book, that was to be found among the chattels of the squatter, and it had been preserved by his wife, as a melancholy relic of more prosperous, and possibly of more innocent, days.†   (source)
  • We were all out-lying about your camp, friend squatter, as by this time you may begin to suspect, when we found that it contained a wronged and imprisoned lady, with intentions neither more honest nor dishonest than to set her free, as in nature and justice she had a right to be.†   (source)
  • "Nelly," resumed the squatter, who paid very little attention to what Paul considered a highly creditable and ingenious vindication, "Nelly, this is a wide and a wicked world, on which you have been in such a hurry to cast yourself.†   (source)
  • With this resolution, then, the squatter descended to the plain and divided his forces into two parts, one of which was to remain as a guard with the fortress, and the other to accompany him to the field.†   (source)
  • Moreover, neighbour squatter, he flatly denies your demand for me, miserable and worthless as I am; nor do I think he has been unwise in so doing, seeing that I should have many reasons against journeying far in your company.†   (source)
  • His deference to this particular branch of science had induced him to listen to the application of a medical man, whose thirst for natural history had led him to the desire of profiting by the migratory propensities of the squatter.†   (source)
  • "May the Lord pardon his sins freely as I have forgiven his worst misdeeds!" calmly returned the squatter: "woman, go you back to the rock and read your Bible; a chapter in that book always does you good.†   (source)
  • The squatter himself eagerly seized the hint which had been so reluctantly extorted from the trapper, who by some singular process of reasoning had evidently persuaded himself that it was his duty to be strictly neutral.†   (source)
  • On the day to which the narrative is advanced, the squatter was standing near the base of the rocks, leaning on his rifle, and regarding the sterile soil that supported him with a look in which contempt and disappointment were strongly blended.†   (source)
  • The air of settled gloom, which had taken possession of the squatter's countenance, lighted for an instant with a look of dull drollery, as he answered— "Different people might judge differently, Esther, of the virtue of the man's art.†   (source)
  • As the squatter made this declaration in a tone which was a little excited by the humour of the moment, four or five of his lounging sons, who had been leaning against the foot of the rock, came forward with the indolent step so common to the family.†   (source)
  • The squatter turned slowly from his offending son, and cast an eye, that still lowered with deep resentment upward; but which, the instant it caught a view of the object that now attracted the attention of all around him, changed its expression to one of astonishment and dismay.†   (source)
  • The squatter proceeded to examine the position of his enemies, with his usual coolness, and, as if to try the power of his rifle, he sent a bullet among them, with a force sufficient to do execution, even at the distance at which he stood.†   (source)
  • The colour of Ellen's cheek changed as suddenly as the squatter's piece had flashed on the occasion to which he alluded, the burning glow suffusing her features, until it even mantled her throat with its fine healthful tinge.†   (source)
  • "Speak plainly, old stranger," said the squatter, striking the butt of his rifle heavily on the earth, his dull capacity finding no pleasure in a discourse that was conducted in so obscure allusions; "I have asked a simple question, and one I know well that you can answer."†   (source)
  • From this place the squatter found the ascent still difficult, partly by nature and partly by artificial impediments, until he reached a sort of terrace, or, to speak more properly, the plain of the elevation, where he had established the huts in which the whole family dwelt.†   (source)
  • It was in the midst of such a scene that the family of the squatter assembled to make their final decision, concerning the several individuals who had been thrown into their power, by the fluctuating chances of the incidents related.†   (source)
  • Like Asa, however, he acquiesced in the decision of the squatter; and the appearance, at least, of harmony was restored again among a set of beings, who were restrained by no obligations more powerful than the frail web of authority with which Ishmael had been able to envelope his children.†   (source)
  • The trapper, who had found time to collect his perplexed faculties, saw at once that Middleton, having perceived Ishmael on the trail by which they had fled, preferred trusting to the hospitality of the savages, than to the treatment he would be likely to receive from the hands of the squatter.†   (source)
  • "You mean to say that I have done you wrong, in taking the lady from her father's house, and leading her so far against her will into these wild districts," returned the unmoved squatter, who manifested as little resentment as he betrayed compunction at the charge.†   (source)
  • "And a bloody piece of work you made of it, man," cried the squatter, pointing tauntily to the soiled garments of his kinsman, and then directing the attention of the spectators to his own, by the way of a triumphant contrast.†   (source)
  • The little run, which supplied the family of the squatter with water, and nourished the trees and bushes that grew near the base of the rocky eminence, took its rise at no great distance from the latter, in a small thicket of cotton-wood and vines.†   (source)
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  • Mostly they lay on their beds, calling to each other from their adjoining cells, sounding like drum squatters.   (source)
    squatters = a type of insect
  • Celebrities had been known to pay huge sums of money to buy an avatar name they wanted from a cyber-squatter who had already reserved it.   (source)
    squatter = someone who has taken legal claim of an internet destination solely for the purpose of reselling it
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