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  • As rain does not break through a well-thatched house, passion will not break through a well-reflecting mind.

    The Dhammapada 2003

  • Lying on the front seat, when I went round there, was a large glossy magazine entitled American Hair Club, with a young well-thatched model-type man smiling broadly on the cover.

    Decider Francis, Dick 1993

  • If you had said of him, "He is well-fleshed, well-groomed, and intellectually well-thatched," you would have voiced the opinion of most of his acquaintances.

    The Darrow Enigma Melvin Linwood Severy

  • The neat white walls, well-thatched roof, and clean casement-windows, ornamented as they were with honeysuckles and roses, attracted the admiration of a few strangers, who, from the uncommon beauty and grandeur of the scenery, were tempted to turn off the direct road from

    The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People

  • Dick stared at the pile of unlit logs in the fireplace and felt the rhythmic strokes of his mother's hand upon his well-thatched head as she watched him in sympathetic silence; but he saw the eyes of his fellow classmen and felt their good-by hand-clasps.

    Jewel Weed Alice Ames Winter 1904

  • In it we found some well-built, well-thatched farm-buildings: a sheepfold, a goatpen, a cowshed, a strongly built structure like a granary or store-house, another like a repository for wine-jars and oil-jars; hovels such as all mountain farms have for slave-quarters and a house or cabin little better than a hut, mud-walled, like the other buildings, but new thatched.

    Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900

  • The houses of San Pedro are well constructed of stone, set in adobe, and have well-thatched roofs.

    In Indian Mexico (1908) Frederick Starr 1895

  • The roof of the log lean-to can be either of boards or well-thatched poles which have first been overlaid with bark.

    On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls Lina Beard 1888

  • Slight rainstorms are likely to be encountered in a trip round the mountain, but one may easily find shelter beneath well-thatched trees that shed the rain like a roof.

    Steep Trails John Muir 1876

  • As rain does not break through a well-thatched house, passion will not break through a well-reflecting mind.

    Dhammapada, a collection of verses; being one of the canonical books of the Buddhists 1861

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