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a modest dwelling
Definition
a house or shelter in which someone lives
- He disliked the litter of human dwellings: the broken food, the bits of broken china, the old wash-boilers and tea-kettles thrown into the sunflower patch.1.3 — Part 1 Chapter 3 (43% in)
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- But for the piece of rusty stovepipe sticking up through the sod, you could have walked over the roof of Ivar's dwelling without dreaming that you were near a human habitation.1.3 — Part 1 Chapter 3 (36% in)
- The dwelling-houses were set about haphazard on the tough prairie sod; some of them looked as if they had been moved in overnight, and others as if they were straying off by themselves, headed straight for the open plain.1.1 — Part 1 Chapter 1 (2% in)
- He had settled in the rough country across the county line, where no one lived but some Russians,—half a dozen families who dwelt together in one long house, divided off like barracks.1.3 — Part 1 Chapter 3 (22% in)
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