Moreover, in spite of having issued from the untidy hovel of those rammucky Veales, she showed an innate love of cleanliness and order, assiduously brushing her black hair and scrupulously washing her white skin.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
It mattered nothing to the children of the mud hovel that their father was not an exemplary character; they did not want him to be drowned; and Norah, hearing in extreme youth of the hero who had interposed between him and such a cruel death, had mentally built a pedestal for the hero and kept him on top of it ever since.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
He had expected a mere hovel, such as he had read about.
"The Son of his Father"
Ridgwell Cullum