fisher-huts

Updated: June 25, 2025

At the foot of it we plunged into a grove of olives and through it, as through a screen, into the street of a little marina two dozen fisher-huts, huddled close above the foreshore, and tenantless; for their inhabitants were gathered all on the beach and staring at the blaze.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Sir John Constantine : Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756

Here and there were hollows, affording stony pasturage for a few sheep and cows and little wooden fisher-huts stood on the shore in the arms of sheltered coves.

Bayard Taylor - Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland

I left it where it lay; it was thick and common and vulgar; perhaps a bit of a tramcar window. Once on a time glass was rare, and bottle-green. God's blessing on the old days, when something could be rare! Smoke rising now from the fisher-huts on the southern point of the island. Evening time, and porridge cooking for supper.

Knut Hamsun - Wanderers