But these were no more than collections of flimsy reed-and-mud huts.

His eyes searched for sanctuary and quickly zeroed in on the solid-steel cargo carriers, which appeared to be enduring the quake better than the flimsy huts.

It trampled the cooking-fires and the children screamed as some of the flimsy huts were knocked askew by its ungoverned anger.

The path had suddenly opened out into a wide clearing, almost completely occupied by a village of flimsy huts.

Officers would sometimes be able to stay in a nearby town, but their armies had to sleep under bushes or flimsy huts that they would make themselves.

The flimsy huts of Lazaret were replaced by solid buildings of baked mud.

They saw it whipping through the treetops, felt it gusting against the flimsy hut.

In a small, natural clearing on the bank of the river was a flimsy man-made hut.

This was as well, for even a single light raid would have reduced the flimsy huts to matchwood.

But Keitel told him the meeting would be in the Lagebaracke - the conference barracks.29.26 This was far from being the flimsy wooden hut so often described.