straw-thatched

Their houses were earthen-walled and straw-thatched.

Chapter 15

I glanced at the house, straw-thatched and commodious, at the large stable, and at the large array of fields I knew must belong with the place.

SAMUEL

It is a tiny village of a dozen straw-thatched cottages in which I lived.

Chapter 15

She lives alone in a straw-thatched, commodious house, on seventy acres of land.

“Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!”

Now his dream is of a farm and farm-house, straw-thatched out-buildings, children playing in the sun, good wife at the door — "the goal of all his effort, the high reward for the salt-plowing and the long, long furrows he ran up and down the whole world around in his farming of the sea."

“Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!”

Castles, cloaks, cold, straw-thatched roofs and pens of barnyard animals.

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Castles, cloaks, cold, straw-thatched roofs and pens of barnyard animals.

World-Building Week: Painting

Indeed the whole house was alive with vermin — from the wasps nesting in the straw-thatched roof to the body-hopping fleas for whom our blood was the elixir of life.

'Blonde Roots'

The green hills are crowned by clusters of straw-thatched cones.

How I Found Livingstone

An old man stood in front of a straw-thatched hut.

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