...He dusted down the very rafters, and cleaned the broken candle-moulds and bent forks that had stuck in the thatch for twenty years...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...Here and there, though, you will see a thatched house, its thatch coveredwith creeping plants, and inhabited by colonies of creeping insects...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...Now and then a snake would be seen gliding within the thatch, having taken shelter front the pouring rain...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...Along the shore we saw an occasional cocoanut plantation to the water's edge and native huts and villages of thatch...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...A blackbird flew into the apple-tree overlookingthe thatch, shook the moisture fromhis wings, and cleaned his bright orange billon a bough...
Alfred W. Rees 「Creatures of the Night」
...A few years since, a pair of sparrows, which had built in the thatch roof of a house at Poole, were observed to continue their visits to the nest long after the time when the young birds take flight...
Samuel Griswold Goodrich 「Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom」
...Old thatch, straw, furze, or broom waspiled in a heap and set on fire a little after sunset...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...It would be supposed from most reports, notonly in the volume quoted, but from various other sources as well,that only the walls of these houses were plastered with mud, the roofbeing of thatch alone...
Gerard Fowke 「Archeological Investigations」
...White is agreeable, if sobered down; slateallowable on the roof as well as thatch...
John Ruskin 「The Poetry of Architecture」
...Andrews was probably, like that of Iona, constructed with wattles andturf and roofed with thatch...
Dugald Butler and Herbert Story 「Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys」
...His monstrous hand bristled with a thatch of heavy black hair...
Various 「Astounding Stories, March, 1931」
...Thelean face was unshaven, and from under a thatch of black hair a pairof deep-set eyes stared penetratingly at the figure on the rude bed...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930」
...They are generally built inform of an Oblong square, the Roofs are supported by 3 Rows of Pillars orposts, and neatly covered with Thatch made of Palm leaves...
James Cook 「Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World」
...Instead of thatch, theynow use shingles made from a tree in appearance like a fir, butproducing a wood not unlike the English oak...
Arthur Phillip 「The Voyage Of Governor Phillip To Botany Bay」
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