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After returning to Ithaca disguised by Athena as an old beggar, Odysseus reveals himself to the son he hasn’t seen since infancy in the hut of the swineherd Eumaeus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The hut was rebuilt in 2023 and first advertised last week, but comes with few frills.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
On Keenan's experience of being in the hut, Pieter said it showed how the brain was a "metaphor and meaning-generating machine".
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
In “The Getaway”—filmed twice for the big screen—Doc and Carol McCoy conclude their escape hiding in caves, then a hut made of dung, before they end up in the infernal domain of El Rey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
A few minutes later they tumbled onto Shell Beach, below where the hut used to be.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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Children linger in the narrow shade cast by the huts, some too tired to play, others trailing silently after their mothers.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
None of the huts are allowed to have power and all offer basic shelter.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
Nyamumba Evelyne’s family moved into this settlement of six straw huts more than a decade ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
At the beginning of the war, I filmed brilliant young men tinkering in forest huts, using 3-D printers to build their first “birds of fire.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
In the huts there were the usual bunks, one above the other in pairs, with mattresses or wire netting.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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The dreary encampment at Valley Forge has become proverbial for its hardships; yet they were scarcely more severe than those suffered by Washington's army during the present winter, while hutted among the heights of Morristown.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington
On its return from the Expedition, the regiment proceeded to Easton, Pennsylvania, and from thence to Morristown, N.J., where it was hutted for the winter.
From The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's Campaign Against the Western Indians With an Introduction, Copious Historical Notes, and Maps of the Battle-field of Newtown and Groveland Ambuscade by Hardenbergh, John Leonard
In the winter of 1807, Napoleon established his army in cantonments behind the Passarge in face of the enemy, the advanced guard alone being hutted near the cities of Gutstadt, Osterode, &c.
From The Art of War by Mendell, George Henry
The Sixth was hutted in temporary structures built of logs surmounted by tents.
From Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by Kidd, James Harvey
Captain Winslow and the officers and the crew of the “Osterley,” who had been hutted at a distance from the rest, on hearing the firing, had broken through the sentries, and hurried to the spot.
From Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War by Hoggans, T.
Do you remember when Prout and you were on their track for hutting and trespass, wasn't it?
From Stalky & Co. by Kipling, Rudyard
He frequently accompanied the General, as at Valley Forge, in his visits to the encampment on the mountain, where the emaciated tattered wretches were hutting with all possible speed against the severity of another winter.
From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Kinds of designs and experiments in hutting could be practised without expense in this simple way.
From The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries by Galton, Francis, Sir
We were put on shore on the 8th February, and instantly commenced hutting ourselves by brigades.
From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by Surtees, William
The king, excitedly impatient, now led the way again, shooting hurry-scurry through my men's lines, which were much commented on as being different from Waganda hutting, on to the tall tree with the adjutant's nest.
From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by Speke, John Hanning
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