It consisted of a roof thatched with palm leaves, and raised upon thirty-nine pillars on each side, and fourteen in the middle.
The neighbouring district of Bramshill has still the littlethatched cottage where Kingsley used to conduct a little simple service on Sunday afternoons.
The building rises above the little thatched village, which stands on slightly raised ground in the midst of the fens.
Great rocks stick out from the foliage on the hillside, and nearer is the town, with its pretty thatched houses and palatial mansions and avenues of greenery.
But on that day long ago there was nothing of this, nothing but a number of clumsy boats with thatched roofs to keep the sun off, native fashion.
The village is one long straggling street of thatched huts, rather like huge beehives, with broad eaves.
They are built of dark wood, and stand on posts, with wide verandahs and thatched roofs, are nearly always embowered in great trees, and have a luxuriant growth of plantains and trees around.
The houses were all like ours, built on legs with thatched roofs, and there were great shady mango trees and plantains growing beside them.
He leaped at a mouse that was moving through its grass-thatched tunnel and missed by a fraction of an inch.
When it heard a mouse in a grass-thatched runway, the fox reared, to come stiffly down with both front paws.
The mice in their grass-thatched runways could never be seen.
On either side in front of the house are the farm buildings, all, from the big barn to the row of pigsties, thatched with long reeds, which give the whole a pleasant English home appearance.
The two grey donkeys, just visible in front of the gorse bushes, stood as still as limestone images--as still as the grey-thatched roof of the mud cottage a little farther on.
It was more than two o'clock in the afternoon when Adam came in sight of the grey town on the hill-side and looked searchingly towards the green valley below, for the first glimpse of the old thatched roof near the ugly red mill.
All this story the Kotwal's son heard from the thatched roof of the cow-house, and was struck with horror.
With this wicked object he one day scaled the wall that encompassed the Brahman's house, and got upon the thatched roof of the Brahman's cow-house.
Who can be a greater monster of crime than the same lad who is at this moment standing on the thatched roof of this hut over our head?
At last they went into the depth of the forest far away from the houses of men, where they stopped before a hut thatched with leaves.
A little pathway of mossy stones, past an old boat-house, on whose thatched roof flowering grasses and a young birch-tree were waving, leads up from the water to the one road on the island.
Most of the roofs were also slated; one or two were thatched, and these thatched roofs were the only thing that redeemed the gloom of the spot, the sods on these being bright with pansies and grasses and waving raspberry bushes.
These are very gay; and some of the thatched roofs are grown thick with a dark olive-green moss, which in a cross sunlight is as fine a color as was ever wrought into an old tapestry, and looks more like ancient velvet.
The people on the route seem to be wretchedly poor, living in the most primitive mud cabins thatched with straw.
He and his ragged retinue amused themselves by inspecting our defences, our open gardens, and our thatched houses.
A square of thatched barracks, more like huts than houses, contains sometimes no more than fifteen soldiers, some of them left here as ineffective.
There was also an arbour consisting of three posts with a thatched roof, quite shut in on all sides by the luxuriant vegetation.
The Outagamies and Mascoutins gathered strength from desperation, and sent flights of fire-arrows into the fort to burn the straw-thatched houses.
It is generally a roof shaped like an inverted boat of wooden beams supported on posts and thatched with palm-leaves.
But, in between the keep and the battlements, there had gradually grown up a congeries of hovels like a dirty thatched town.
The cottages were all thatched with sea-rushes and kelp, all the doors stood open and the swine moved in and out.
We rode to the green suburbs of the town, where were nice thatched sheds stretching half way over a rapid stream.
On awaking, I found myself in a dwelling constructed of pickets, driven perpendicularly into the ground, the apertures filled in with mud, and all covered by a roughly-thatched roof.
A few minutes' walk brought us to an immense thatched building, which was the native church.
Close to the farmhouse stood a tall haystack, and between it and the house was a small shed with a thatched roof.
I have no doubt that you have been in the country and seen a very old farmhouse, with thatched roof, and mosses and small plants growing wild upon it.
They are all woven of silk or cotton, or of silk and cotton mixed, by the native women, and no attap-thatched home is complete without its hand-loom.
She was not quite fifteen when she became mistress of her own little palm-thatched home.
Under the heavy green and yellow fronds of a cocoanut grove were a half-dozen picturesque palm-thatched houses.
The wedge-shaped tops of some palm-thatched and palm-shaded huts could just be seen, set well back from the shore.
The low, cool bungalows with their wide-spreading lawns gave place to the grass-thatched huts of the Chinese coolies, and the omnipresent eating-stalls.
They bask in the sun with their brown babies on their laps, or wander among the cocoanuts that always surround their palm-thatched homes, happy and contented, with no thought for the morrow.
He slunk away with a low salaam, muttering something about the Heaven-Born being all wise, and later I saw him in deep converse with his first-born under a palm-thatched cadjang on the bow.
Even the sharp, insistent whir of the cicada ceases when the thermometer on the sunny side of our palm-thatched bungalow reaches 155°.
At evening, when the fierce sun went down behind the great banian tree that nearly hid Mount Pulei, the kateeb would sound the call to prayer on a hollow log that hung up before the little palm-thatched mosque.
Theresa Toodles Thatched a Trumpery Tipperary Theatre Three Thousand and Thirty-Three Times, and Then Took To Table-Turning and Table-Talking.
The Kadu Gollas are said to have originally immigrated from Northern India, and are still a nomadic tribe, living in thatched huts outside the villages.
At Kallampalla temple is a thatched building, containing a stone called Mariamma, the well-known goddess of small-pox, worshipped in this capacity by the Irulas.
The roofs are of bamboo framework thatched with palmyra palm leaves.
The temples are generally low thatchedbuildings with a front porch, an enclosure wall, and a grove of trees.
The home of the Cheruman is called a chala or hut, which has a thatched roof of grass and palm-leaves resembling an immense bee-hive.
The dance was performed in front of a little thatched shed, which, we learnt, was their temple.
The madams are very poor huts, supported on four small posts, and thatched with leaves.
Beyond it, the tower of Garthmyle Church rose in the middle distance, a few thatched roofs peeping through the half-leafless trees about it.
Here are bright villas, covered with flowering rose-trees, and a thatched cottage swathed in ivy.
Usurers have been driven out of business and the peasant's house has ceased to be a mud hut with a straw-thatched roof.
The house itself was sinking into the surrounding mire, the thatched roof was falling in on one side and sliding off on the other.
Between the forest and the dun, close to the latter, was the little town, or burgh, with its thatched houses, in which dwelt the artificers of the king.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thatched" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
