20 Verbs to Use for the Word shanty

Their two boatmen had built them a log shanty; open in front, and covered with bark so as to be impervious to the rain, while within was a luxurious bed of boughs.

They crossed the road, and entered the huge shanty, and stood apologetically near the door.

It was useless to conjecture; yet, before giving myself up to sleep, I determined to know everything that could be known, before leaving the shanty.

On the opposite side, a quarter of a mile above, stood a rough shanty, at the foot of the rise which led to the prairie.

I hollered for Crop, who was watching the shanty as his duty was.

"I got a shanty of my own across there, and a few fixin's.

There wasn't any house then nearer than Harriets Town, down by the Lower Saranac; but there was a company of lumbermen having a shanty up towards the head of the lake, near where the Bog River enters.

As I approached the shanty, a faint gleam through one of its two small windows showed that it was inhabited.

Here and there Charlton noticed the little claim-shanties, built in every sort of fashion, mere excuses for pre-emption.

At long intervals we have passed a few board shanties like card houses grouped together near the track; just fancy living there, Mamma!

To reach his shanty from the Hill one had to pass through the Pit, and thither the three boys were bound.

It roused me up a bit, perhaps, for I had the sense left to know that I couldn't afford to sit down just yet, and I remembered a shanty that I must have passed without seeing; it was just at the opening of the place where the rocks narrowed, built, as they build their light-houses, to warn folks to one side.

His wife and children were living in a tent in the garden, and most of the inhabitants of the village had deserted their mud huts, and rigged up temporary shanties of palm leaves in the road.

He began to set his shanty in order.

" "Well, let's get a move on, and start that shanty.

Two lofty-sparred ships but newly from the California coast swung at moorings within a dozen feet of the grass that borders the coral banks, and on their decks, under the light of lamps, American sailors lifted a shanty of the rolling Mississippi.

'When I'd fixed it up with Miss Donnehue, I looked out for a place, and bought this little house shanty.

Here, the year before, from the pieces of ice being heaped and crushed together in great quantities, was formed a thick and high bridge of ice, completely across the river, safe for passengers for some time; and in the middle of it a Yankee speculator had erected a shanty for refreshments.

Sounds as of huge planks lifted at one end and then allowed to fall, slamming upon the floor, hard, wooden claps, crashes, and noises of splitting and snapping, filled the shanty.

"You forget the shanty.

20 Verbs to Use for the Word  shanty