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1. Texas town ’bout that shack
2. ANOTHER GUARD sits in a small shack nearby with his head on a desk, SNORING
3. One by one they were taken into a shack – hands tied behind their backs by barbed wire – and hacked to pieces with an axe so that no shots could be heard
4. All my options were cut off by a broken down fence that stretched between me and the almost hidden shack
5. I looked around and saw a shack made from driftwood and mud amongst the shadows of one or two twisted olive trees on the extreme point
6. feelin’ ye’ll be in need of it,’ then he shook his head sadly, entered his single-roomed shack, and closed
7. I don’t even NEED shoes, but I can afford to buy them because I’m filthy, stinking rich! Those shoes cost more than the crummy shack you call a home that your family lives in!
8. at the guard shack in front of the entrance to their subdivision
9. houses nearby or even the guard shack
10. His tranquility, and peace of mind, having been compromised at the Wayward Inn, Alec sought refuge at a far less crowded, and less refutable establishment, the Timber Wall Tavern; a dilapidated shack that made his former residence seem as grand as the Archenon
11. They all strode behind him as he marched past the fountain, across the cobbles to a small concrete shack standing next to an enormous rotund building which had 'COURT HOUSE’ stenciled in gold across its entirity
12. "Four more for the court Cyril" he called as they entered the shack
13. Instead Old Harold himself appeared from his shack carrying a small dog with its leg in plaster
14. He saw a wooden shack further down against the hill that was tilted to one side
15. A tiny grocery, little more than a shack beside the owner’s house, sold odds and ends of fresh and canned food
16. “The abductors were holed up in a shack near the edge of town, but had spies skulking around, all to learn when the ransom would be paid
17. back door of that shack
18. They struggled Alex into the shack, half-carrying, half-dragging him
19. On the far side of the shack a cat sat licking its paws, cleaning the fur along the sides of its neck and head
20. The chase had been long and the killing exciting, but not as exciting as the kill that waited for them in the shack
21. Jumping from the car Dawn rushed into the shack, her mind a whirl of confusion
22. As she entered the shack Sheena raised her head from the table and looked at her with sleep-filled eyes
23. The white glass shattered on the floor and the cat ran from the shack
24. I left the Hilton and walked up Mandalay until I found a bad imitation of a Radio Shack called The Electronics Hut
25. It was a shack in a warehouse district, near a municipal airport industrial park
26. At its base, a tiny shack
27. Then we sat outside on the porch of the shack against the massive dune, with others rising in waves around it
28. Do you really believe this senior couple had a tape recorder wired into the scanner they bought at Radio Shack? The tape was turned over to U
29. The “house” was a shack covered with bark
30. We moved on to the third shack
31. The final shack required a climb back over the mountain to the stream between two small lakes, which were the sources for the stream that flowed by the second shack
32. “I’m sorry there isn’t anywhere nicer for you to sleep,” she said, ducking through the doorway of the long, dry shack
33. I could see that I was literally the fifth wheel; the other four lawyers were crammed into a small area just behind the guard shack at the plant entrance
34. but the gate was open and no one was manning the guard shack
35. No damage was done except for losing my Radio Shack TV antennas
36. with Bill Gorvine over the guard shack to the Administration Building,
37. They left in a huff, moving in with her mom, boyfriend, and her five younger siblings to a 2 BR shack on Fort Shantock Drive near the Thames River
38. Kami then noticed that, in the planter box next to his little guard shack, there was a cat eating scraps of food
39. The cat immediately dropped what it was doing, went into the guard shack, and, in a single jump, grabbed onto the guard’s leg, meowing and hissing threateningly
40. The guard jumped up, startled, and came bouncing out of the guard shack with the cat wrapped around his leg
41. another made up shack, which contained another load of rabbits
42. shack to an electric sign hanging over the side of the
43. as he pushed himself close against the side of the shack
44. He cautiously peaked around the shack
45. A group of soldiers ran toward the shack, intent on
46. I went back to the shack where we rented our snorkeling equipment and told the attendant what had happened
47. And that Tenney—he'd never stir himself to fix-up somebody else's shack
48. from our little shack on Allen Drive after the incident with Carlton, Mama, Grace and the
49. incredibly hot, especially inside our wooden shack, and there was still no electricity and I had
50. eye, running out a zinc shack that was being used to house equipment and material for a house
1. Shacked up, whatever
2. “No shit, you've shacked up with her? Is it true that she got married to a four eyed businessman and even has a kid?!”
3. his wife, his kids, his house, his dignity and his job, but for the shred of human friendship that lay shacked up, oblivious to the
4. We had been adjudicated in Juvenile Court to be “a family with social needs” because I beat the snot out of him when he was 14 for trashing our rented house on Deer Trail while I was in Tampa shacked up with my girlfriend who had just moved to St Pete
5. Spears read off three coordinates he had Shacked up earlier
6. Besides, her memories revealed that she had acquired an inn and had soon shacked up with a few of her drunken patrons so no one could tell who the Father was
7. As much as she wanted to get away from her mother's bullshit, she didn't want to be shacked up with Brian
8. And if she was shacked up with some new guy, so be it
9. The fool never left the area, but had shacked up with his girlfriend, thinking he would be safe
10. Having had that thought, he was surprised Anna was still alive, having been shacked up with him, according to the news reports
11. bit much that her travelling companion had shacked up in a barrel with a
12. ‘I just can’t believe that he is shacked up with some pathetic human who is leeching off his life-force
13. Stan wouldn’t let her even talk to them on the phone, and what was worse, had told them their mom skipped out all alone because she didn’t want to be bothered with them, and was shacked up with a black doper in Venice (the Southern California version)
14. Adam would love that…and since it seemed we were probably going to be shacked up together in the near future, I figured I should buy him something good for Yule
15. "That poor woman, her bastard husband just upped and went off with all her money and shacked up with the ginger slut"
16. Grew his hair out, grew a beard, shacked up with a lovely twenty-four-year-old airline stewardess who wore what she insisted was a chunk of moon-rock on a leather thong around her neck
17. Instead of one of his army of sources (Have I got a story for you) it had been that stewardess he’d shacked up with, calling long-distance from Florida
18. We listened for frogs, but they had shacked up for the winter
1. Sadly, my friend neglected his duty to DOC, Mike and me by shacking up with a new female acquaintance in Westerly the last day of Mike’s life
2. Now after welfare reform, men can avoid paying child support by shacking up with their children’s mothers
3. “You'll have to sleep in the same room as me, because it would look weird, you and I shacking up, and one of us sleeping in the living room on a couch
4. Perhaps she traveled to the North Pole and was shacking up with an Eskimo in his igloo
1. ramshackle collection of maybe 100 tin shacks clustered in the desert between a pocket of towering rock mountains
2. They pass an appalling collection of shacks placed randomly throughout the compound
3. They cut across the hill and behind some wooden shacks and some more that were nothing more than woven sticks plastered with mud
4. People crept from their hastily built shacks and began to walk towards the scattered remains of the Forum, now thriving with people from all walks of life, but seeking the same thing – freedom
5. The Poles saw the Jews building beautiful homes and developing modern farms, and they, the Poles, were living in shacks near the swamps
6. Not even close: it was deserted and there was nothing but the damn jungle and a scattering of half-fallen-down shacks
7. The bungalows at first glance looked like nothing but grass shacks built over the water on sticks, but inside they were charming, with finished walls, air conditioning, kitchenette, bar and bed with soft mattress
8. Meanwhile I’m paid the same pittance as the Zulu women who scrub the floors and live in shacks
9. lamps escaped through the windows of the shacks, lighting the
10. Dozens of shanty homes and shacks similar to those of
11. shacks formed the centre of the derelict community, their
12. of the rusting machines and old abandoned shacks, considerably
13. lamps of the shacks and caravans shone brightly throughout the
14. Above the rooftops of the shacks and tents, Cloud could make out
15. We’re so far from civilization that if a bomb explodes no one but the yokels in the few clapboard shacks in the woods would hear us die
16. Mansi team out to one of the construction shacks
17. Out where they beached their boat, the buildings were mere shacks
18. No cabins or shacks or anything
19. The car stopped in the centre, they got out and went to sit at a table, outside one of shacks and ordered three beers
20. It rocked back and forth as Windy, the driver, tried to avoid the mounds and potholes on the small, dirty street lined with small huts and shacks that buzzed with life as they drove past, small massage parlours with girls whooping at Windy to stop
21. shacks put wings on the feet of those whose parts had already been played
22. Finn had departed yesterday, but he would be back eventually, with more settlers for his vacant shacks and with supplies and probably a new wooden foot
23. To jump from the rooftops of shacks to the
24. So what if nobody was about? It was the middle of the afternoon and many people took their siesta round about now; people always shunned the sweltering heat of the midday Smug and dozed in the cool of their shacks
25. Parents with children suffered without heat in thousands of dilapidated, one-room shacks that decayed on the street adjacent to Melton’s church while he pastored the city
26. Those who had been shut out and lived on subsistence wages, in cheap tenements or rural shacks along unpaved back roads, far removed from any talk of black destiny
27. "Hey, send these creatures to their respective shacks
28. One of the shacks had a couple of battered signs outside it, one looked
29. the shacks in the crisp winter air
30. The shacks were cobbled together from whatever scrap the Viirin might occasionally dump from their hovering loader-platforms at varying locations throughout the ghetto
31. But as there was no space for anything new in ShantyTown, and vertical construction was impossible given the resources at hand, they’d typically just patch or prop or partition their teetering shacks, struggling to extend the grim serviceability of what little they had
32. I left her and entered the depression with shacks, three clustered around a central area that had the burn marks of a fire pit
33. cardboard and plywood shacks on the banks of the river before the hurricane, and
34. We broke out of the forest into a clearing made up of makeshift shacks huddled around an old stately looking farmhouse
35. were several antiquated fibro beach shacks scattered about and some small lagoons and
36. Serena had been standing at an intersection in an area dotted with older office buildings and occasional clusters of shacks and boathouses at the river’s edge, oblivious to the construction workers across the street who were clearly ogling her
37. Werner watches Volkheimer climb onto the stool and close his eyes when a particularly plangent waltz comes on, Volkheimer who has killed a hundred men by now at least, probably more, walking into pathetic radio-transmitting shacks in his huge expropriated boots, sneaking up behind some emaciated Ukrainian with headphones on his ears and a microphone at his lips and shooting him in the back of the head, then going to the truck to tell Werner to collect the transmitter, making the order calmly, sleepily, even with the pieces of the man on the transmitter like that
38. Staring out the window, Maria vaguely noticed a half-dozen shacks and boathouses closer to the river, looking dark and shadowed
39. “Because,” she said, wondering when the police would arrive, remembering the lakeside cabin where Cassie had been murdered, remembering the shacks and boathouses common to this portion of the Cape Fear River, “that’s where Laws would have gone
40. Like most of the shacks, Joe’s had no indoor plumbing and his room came with only enough electricity for one lightbulb overhead and a hot plate on a shelf
41. At two in the morning, high on the mountain, Phil, Garrett, and the other POWs reached a collection of wooden shacks in a rocky clearing
42. The highway to Colton snaked through the mountains, rising and falling, offering breathtaking views of the dense ridges, then dipping into valleys filled with clusters of dilapidated shacks and mobile homes with junk cars scattered about
43. Old multicolored tiled houses, fishermen’s shacks, and bungalows such as my own
44. They passed a small settlement near a sandbar, a collection of floating shacks and boats
45. “Miss Scarlett, they’re living in tents and shacks and log cabins and doubling up six and seven families in the few houses still standing
46. Thank Heaven, there were no ragged women along the roadside today! As she passed the trail leading down to the settlement she looked with distaste at the group of wind blowing, and as she passed there came to her nose the mingled smells of wood shacks squatting in the hollow in the dreary slant of the afternoon sun
47. There was something sinister about this camp with its ugly shacks, something which had not been here when Hugh Elsing had it
48. Tin and wood shacks lined both sides of what was virtually an alleyway cut into rock
49. The eleven-year-old girl stood in front of one of the nearly identical shacks
50. Here and there, with stubborn persistence to custom, there had been voices singing, the honey laughter under the mimosa branches, the pickaninnies rushing in clear water laughter at the creek, movements and bendings in the fields, jokes and shouts of amusement from the shingle shacks covered with fresh green vine