Sentence examples for house of mud from inspiring English sources

That night, I dreamed that Katya and I were in a small, dark house of mud and thatch.

They lived in a three-room house of mud brick inherited from her parents, and the seven children had few clothes.

Tiyanjane Rodrich Lino, 20, is nursing a swollen jaw after her house of mud and straw collapsed on her while she slept.

Nor can it account for such practices as mbari, in which the Owerri Igbo of Nigeria spend a year or more constructing a ceremonial house of mud, adorn it with dozens of life-size sculpted and painted figures (some fashioned from specially collected and processed anthill mud), and then, after a week of ceremonial dancing and feasting, leave it to disintegrate.

Miles away from India's capital, Delhi, villagers have gathered around a small house of mud and hay.

Inside their four-room house of mud and brick, set amid walnut and apple trees, Shakoor's family watched with worry last year as violence spread across the valley.

Houses of mud brick date from the beginning of this phase and continue throughout the occupation.

The Malinke of the northwestern part of the country build round houses of mud and sun-dried brick covered by a conical thatched roof.

When the time came, the villagers exchanged houses of mud, with thatch roofs and no electricity, for solid new places with electricity and plenty of water.

They built cheap houses of mud and concrete along unpaved roads on land nobody wanted at the edges of the cities and continued to have large families.

The money wasn't great, by European standards, but, before long, parents in Benin City were replacing ramshackle houses of mud and wood with walled-off properties.