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Their houses were earthen-walled and straw-thatched.
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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.
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It is a tiny village of a dozen straw-thatched cottages in which I lived.
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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!”
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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!”
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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.
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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.
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The green hills are crowned by clusters of straw-thatched cones.
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An old man stood in front of a straw-thatched hut.
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