1 A one-room shanty of boards recently covered with rough stucco.
2 She looked doubtfully at him, at the low shanty, the yard that was littered with cord-wood, moldy planks, a hoopless wash-tub.
3 With a shaky, "Well, just a moment, to warm my nose," she glanced down the street to make sure that she was not spied on, and bolted toward the shanty.
4 He had, with Carol's help, made his shanty over into a cottage with white curtains and a canary and a chintz chair.
5 She hated herself for it, but she hoped that no one saw her go into the Bjornstam shanty.
6 It plays at cards on greasy oil-cloth in a shanty, and does not know that prophets are walking and talking on the terrace.
7 It was a roving shanty, the cabin of a land schooner, with black oilcloth seats along the side, and for desk, a pine board to be let down on hinges.
8 They were scarecrows in a shanty town.
9 To Aniele's house, in back of the yards, was a good two miles; the distance had never seemed longer to Jurgis, and when he saw the familiar dingy-gray shanty his heart was beating fast.
10 He started down the track, and when he was past the gate-keeper's shanty he sprang forward and swung himself on to one of the cars.
11 In this recess lies concealed a little shanty which leans against the portion of the ruin which has remained standing.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 12 When these men were re-united, one of them lifted the latch of the gate in the fence, and all four entered the enclosure in which the shanty stood.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 13 Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed him the rope which Brujon had knotted together during Montparnasse's absence.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 14 For John, it had been a long, hard pull to get things started in the rickety old shanty that sheltered his school.
15 Both the church and the shanty were in about as bad condition as was possible.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter VII.