But when Kuchela returns home he finds that his modest hut has miraculously been turned into a palace.

M'k'n'zy strode back and forth apprehensively within the confines of his fairly modest hut.

The trend is all the more striking in a country where many poor and rural women still deliver each other's children in a hammock or on the floor of a modest hut.

They lived in modest thatched huts close beside the river, and raised an assortment of crops in small gardens to supplement the catch that their fleet of crude fishing-boats brought in.

We stopped one day in a lean-to shed behind a modest thatched hut belonging to a village cadre.

Cantabrian houses range from humble shepherd huts to the palaces and mountain mansions of the rich, from traditional mountain homes to the modest huts of the Pas valley.

Early in the morning of 3 December, 1552 Francis Xavier closed his eyes forever in grace of Christ in a very modest hut of branches and mud lumps.

Springbuck's poor vision gave him only the vague details of modest white huts fronting a bleached, broad beach.

Initially, the church building was a modest hut covered with palm leaves or straw.

In February 1816, Pietzsch was given a licence to sell spirits; unfortunately the modest huts he had built were destroyed in a fire in September that same year.