If the Moroccans live in shanties, it is because they do not want to pay rent, the Spaniards say.
SB: It does, and I think that one would probably be called a "sea shanty" because it replays the chorus that way.
She peers in the window of his shanty, but it empty.
This is the book's great virtue: it doesn't see the Congo through the mist of its own exalted confusion but, eventually, both learns and teaches us the patterns of life in an isolated rain-forest village, or in a shanty town; it helps you make sense of poverty, and through literary technique, rather than bald exposition or a rant.
Delius later liked to represent his house at Solano Grove as "a shanty", but it was a substantial cottage of four rooms, with plenty of space for Delius to entertain guests.
Many squatted in the wastelands of Brooklyn in the 1850s and 1860s, "lying in the very heart of the city, and given over to hogs and cows, and to the squatter sovereigns who have erected wretched shanties upon it".
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From here, one could look down upon our shanty village as it descended into what had once been a lush valley.
The New Yorker, December 9 , 1939P. 21 A Southern gentleman stopping in New York got into the habit of having an occasional breakfast in one of the Shanty restaurants, because it served corn muffins that reminded him of home.
By St. Clair McKelway, E. J. Kahn, Jr., and Harold Ross The New Yorker, December 9, 1939 P. 21 A Southern gentleman stopping in New York got into the habit of having an occasional breakfast in one of the Shanty restaurants, because it served corn muffins that reminded him of home.
