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‘It was an old building, thatch on the roof and lots of old wood in the construction … a bit of a fire trap all round
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He lived in a one room cabin of roughly piled stone chinked with whitewashed mud and roofed with thatch
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Two roads of thatch cottages, a plant nursery and an antiques store
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“Where’d he go!” The startled men looked around, but all they could see was a falcon sitting on top of the thatch roof
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Half an hour later, they came to a wooden farm house topped with thatch
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The thatch gave off a reek long past musty, the walls sagged inward, and the lintel above
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pubic thatch seemed almost like a fist that grabbed her throat
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They stumbled upon the Witch, and her cottage repaired with sticks, mud and thatch
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Nisaba screamed her delight as she raced past with some of the lighter thatch coverings
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You don’t have to go far to find a little thatch bar or restaurant with great sunset views, wonderful fun atmosphere and at less than half the price
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There were ruder houses of mud and thatch barely visible along side streets and the numerous canals
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The latter was a round structure with a conical thatch roof on top of an elevated platform
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On the eastern side of the plaza there were palaces and a temple all of finely fitted stones with thatch roofs
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On the northern side of the plaza, there was more housing, but this was of stone set in mud, also with thatch roofs and in varying stages of completion
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All the thatch roofs had been burned and the insides of the houses were a mess
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We then went down a barely perceptible trail to a small round hut made of wood with a thatch roof
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We followed this path for some distance arriving at a tiny thatch hut in the twilight
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It was also made of stone with an elevated thatch roof, but it took a while to dig the snow out of it
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Most of the houses were now made of the dull red rock called tezontli, but there were still some simpler reed and thatch houses on the periphery
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The houses were made of bundled grass with thatch roofs
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Their houses were large dome-shaped structures made of poles driven into the ground, bent, and bound together at the top with sticks extended between the poles and reed mats or thatch fastened over them
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Their houses were large and square with a nearly flat roof and all made of thatch
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On closer examination, it proved to be made of logs covered with thatch and then covered with sand
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Also there had been gold thread woven into designs on the thatch roof of the temple
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Although not used, the temple was kept clean and the thatch roof replaced as necessary by the locals
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It was made of wooden walls with a high thatch roof reaching nearly to the ground and a central hearth made of stones, with a smoke hole above it in the roof
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We were taken to guest caney, as they called their thatch huts, and all our needs were tended until Behechio returned from a trip
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traveling down to the junction of her thighs, to the thatch of auburn curls that barely
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Some of the houses were up on stilts—built of vertical stakes like bamboo, and roofed with thatch
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What would you prefer—these people attacking us? Torches thrown on the thatch, wagons busted up? Having to kill a dozen to protect ourselves?"
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Removal of the wrestling gear that had until then covered his thighs and most of his abdomen, revealed a chest covered in tight brown curls that continued in a line down to the thick pubic thatch that ran between his legs and spread over his bum, which was as hairy as his thighs
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the evening? He pricked into the thatch wall, and was
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Unbuttoned overalls revealed curly black thatch from neck to navel
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Built of native bluestone, it had been half-dug into the hillside and roofed with grass and thatch
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Thatch buildup should be controlled
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It is important to control the buildup of thatch in your lawn
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Thatch is actually the above-soil runner accumulation, which is propagated by the lawn’s grass
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The layer of the thatch should not go beyond half an inch
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It is important to control it, since thatch can become a barrier between the grass roots and the nutrients
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Broken door frames, worn out roofs, and decaying thatch told the story of this forgotten dwelling
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‘’The Thatch Weave? I never heard of that tactic, Lieutenant
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Knowing that her salvation would be in the mutual protection given by the Thatch Weave maneuver, she did her best to ignore her fear and continued towards Jesus, who was also approaching her
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Both Ingrid and Jesus then reversed their turns in order to continue using the Thatch Weave
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Frontal passes seemed to work well against Japanese bombers, while the Thatch Weave certainly had proved its value as a defensive tactic
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‘’And the Thatch Weave worked like a charm, Ingrid
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The diminutive young Filipino pilot then spent a minute describing the Thatch Weave to Brereton and Clagett, along with the results it gave in combat
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assegai and shield, sported a neat cut of thatch and stretched over the gates from one
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bar and restaurant, then offices above, and beneath the peak of the thatch a single room
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beneath the thatch eaves, and saw Bob limping down the stairs into the ambient light of
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under a thatch lean-to
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watching Mosh arranging the cane rat behind a stand of thatch grass down near the
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vertical walls of crumbling clay, with treacherous overhanging thatch
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fours to squirm through the tunnel under a thatch of wise old yellow-wood, and felt
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Nice tasteful rock, thatch
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The thatch had come off in clumps, and a section of the wall had caved in a few feet from the battered wooden door
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He looked up and saw the moonlight streaming down through a large hole in the thatch, illuminating a pile of straw on the floor beneath
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And all this framed by a thatch of black
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The hotel has wheelchair access throughout and all bedrooms are linked to the main hotel buildings by way of thatch covered walkways
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Loki isn’t thinking about magical color, or paying attention to the denizens of the thatch
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The structure of his game was much like thatch
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Where before there had been only a sea of tents, now there were substantial-looking houses, constructed of timber with roofs of corrugated iron or thatch
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At the far end of this spacious tent Shukra was enthroned on a thatch yoga mat elevated by a small dais
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Macleary closed the thatch work and re-joined his son
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jumped adroitly and scrambled up the wall into the thatch
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house as the palm thatch was ten years old, or more, and the
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began a perilous slide down the thatch, finishing off with a ten
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The stems of sugar cane plants are so rigid that they have been used since time immemorial to build thatch houses with and as punishment rods to beat slaves, women and children with… The practice of caning servants or children still exists today in some parts of the world
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many rope bridges and Elowen saw wood and thatch buildings,
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Long fingers, a thatch of thinning hair beneath his cap
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earth, the walls unfinished wattle-and-daub, the ceiling nothing more than the underside of the thatch
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He was standing in the cool granary, still fragrant with the leaves of the hazel branches interlaced on the freshly peeled aspen beams of the new thatch roof
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Here, under her few square yards of thatch, she watched winds, and snows, and rains, gorgeous sunsets, and successive moons at their full
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Joan stated that they were in dreadful difficulty; the autumn rains had gone through the thatch of the house, which required entire renewal; but this could not be done because the previous thatching had never been paid for
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Tess, who continued to live at the cottage with the warm gable that cheered any lonely pedestrian who paused beside it, awoke in the night, and heard above the thatch noises which
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They were busily "unhaling" the rick, that is, stripping off the thatch before beginning to throw down the sheaves; and while this was in progress Izz and Tess, with the other women-workers, in their whitey-brown pinners, stood waiting and shivering, Farmer Groby having insisted upon their being on the spot thus early to get the job over if possible by the end of the day
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mid-pasture; the high bank where the ash-trees grew; the sudden slope of the old marl-pit making a red background for the burdock; the huddled roofs and ricks of the homestead without a traceable way of approach; the gray gate and fences against the depths of the bordering wood; and the stray hovel, its old, old thatch full of mossy hills and valleys with wondrous modulations of light and shadow such as we travel far to see in later life, and see larger, but not more beautiful
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The mossy thatch of the cow-shed, the broken gray barn-doors, the pauper laborers in ragged breeches who had nearly finished unloading a wagon of corn into the barn ready for early thrashing; the scanty dairy of cows being tethered for milking and leaving one half of the shed in brown emptiness; the very pigs and white ducks seeming to wander about the uneven neglected yard as if in low spirits from feeding on a too meagre quality of rinsings,—all these objects under the quiet light of a sky marbled with high clouds would have made a sort of picture which we have all paused over as a "charming bit," touching other sensibilities than
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Ben stood under his thatch of black and felt himself being categorized and discarded, sectioned off into a group of losers, druggies, wimps, fags
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” When the dark triangular Thatch of Hair appear’d, the Witches chanted, “She is born
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A third section scattered through the village arranging quarters for the staff officers, carrying out the French corpses that were in the huts, and dragging away boards, dry wood, and thatch from the roofs, for the campfires, or wattle fences to serve for shelter
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The latex- processing plant of one stood near at hand and by it was a sort of palm thatch barn, used normally for smoking sheets of the raw rubber hung on horizontal laths
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place was a typical Malay village, the houses built of wood and palm thatch raised about four feet from the ground on posts, leaving a space beneath where dogs slept and fowls nested
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But it was only a boy from town, who had a random thatch of straight black hair and was grubby, gangly, dressed in a torn linen smock, barefoot, and one of his spies
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For a moment he hung there, clawing with his feet like a cat on a clothesline, but presently a piece of the thatch came away, and Mr
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The thatch had fallen in, the walls were unplastered, and the door was off its hinges
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Handfuls of decaying straw, the broken and trampled remnants of former bivouacs, or thatch torn from the roofs of what few huts remained, furnished all their provender, and they perished in the camp by thousands
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Grass afield wears silver thatch,
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The roof was bigleaf shaftwood fronds thatched six inches thick
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John awakes on a cot in a thatched hut somewhat Gilligan’s Island-esque
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tiled roofs of the thatched houses
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However, we eventually found a small hotel with a thatched roof and they were open – so many of the hotels we saw were still closed for the winter
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were shaped like ears and the roof was thatched with fur
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We stood in a large courtyard just inside, with spacious thatched alcoves opening all round, in which a couple of hundred slaves and attendants lay in silent rows, resting on their mats
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Pressing forward to the outposts on June 26th, we camped just above El Pozo, in a snugly thatched hut considerately erected by the Cubans
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The boma at the centre, a thatched roof open on all sides, was the focus of activity
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I stopped over what looked like a huge city with a very high terraced mound and many lower ones, most topped with houses with thatched roofs
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It was a small but well-maintained thatched hut with a small corral in back
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We climbed into a small house with a thatched roof
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Little cottage thatched houses
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The palace had the massive stone walls and high thatched roof favored by the Inka
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Then it closed on a white cottage with a thatched roof on the slope of the volcano, above the tree line
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of the thatched huts, furthest from the clutter of the other
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The roofs were thatched
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The flames had spread rapidly, and now the thatched farmhouse roof was ablaze
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loincloths were cooking over an open fire next to a smal thatched hut
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Near a post-card village called Chipping Sudbury we stayed in a four-hundred year-old thatched farm house owned by a jolly farmer and his wife who served lashings of bacon and eggs for breakfast
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They lived in a little thatched cottage that was untouched by time
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The building was one of those delightful looking thatched roof types that had been extended with a modern conservatory to provide the seating needed to house the bulk of the restaurant customers
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The roofs were all thatched and smelled fresh
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the village remained, and the mist from the sea, and the common, thatched huts of
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With a thatched roof and lots of flowers and plants…”
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It was a very modest thatched roof cottage with elderberries in the front and a
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Faramdoula had his practice and where the family lived in airy comfort under palms in a large thatched bungalow raised off the ground on chest high posts
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ever, several of these two-legged creatures in thatched, open caves, moving slowly
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Mosh waited in the shelter of the thatched stoep of an unused unit, watching over
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stick thatched huts inched into view, and she rested under a ravaged witch-hazel, bag
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Most of the buildings were low, wooden structures with thatched roofs, but the occasional stone building could be seen
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Each was pretty basic, with circular mud walls topped by thatched roofs
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Rectangular, thatched roof, walls
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A lovely quaint cottage with a thatched roof
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headed up IBM in South Africa, spent the entire afternoon on his thatched roof with
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thatched roof of the inn
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pelting the thatched roof on the little House of God
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It was to be lashed to the raised floor in the center of the raft and be about four body lengths wide and four body lengths long and one body length high, with a thatched roof
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The self-contained, free standing thatched cottage provided the finest accommodation and they found delectable fare and sumptuous banquets at the hotel
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‘It looks like life is closer to nature in these tiled houses and thatched huts, with cattle for company!’ Sandhya wondered aloud
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Aylesham was not as you might imagine a Kent village to be, an idyll of thatched cottages with
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The picture showed a thatched cottage with a front garden full of flowers, a little over
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A cornucopia of all manner of plants were impeccably arranged around a large central patio topped with a thatched roof
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The arrow left his bow and he watched it rise past the pigeon coops and descend towards the thatched roof between the abbey nave and the tower
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As we pulled up once more outside the small thatched cottage I now called my home I just stare blankly out of the window
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The three-legged dog, the blacksmith shop spouting flames and sparks (something she couldn’t believe the fire marshal would allow), the three story-buildings and thatched roofed cottages, well, those were all things she hadn’t noticed before when she’d been preoccupied with Kyle and his supposed prom invite
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Wishing there was a sign that said Royal Oaks, Petra tramped after Emory past black and white timbered cottages with thatched roofs, millponds and barns
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They stopped at ‘Inga’s bar,’ that had small bamboo sides and a thatched dried banana leaf roof
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thatched cover, fi ghting to gain inroads against the tangles of ivy
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It really was something special with its thatched roof, and small garden with cats lazing around
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A hundred yards or so ahead of them was an old stone farmhouse with a thatched roof
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(thatched sloping-roof kitchen) caught fire and his whole
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I followed the path, winding past thatched huts,
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Looking forward I saw a structure of stone that had a roof thatched with bundles of dry grass
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village of scattered thatched roofed cottages, with wispy
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The thatched roof of
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Soon, the thatched roofs of the village by the river appeared, with its cultivated firan cane fields spreading out and around it
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The next scene was of a whitewashed country cottage with a thatched roof basking in a summer afternoon
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But of course, naturally everything changed, for now the eccentric creature laid kaput on a mangy thatched carpet
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My father, Iya Muatombo, had been born in a grass thatched hut made of mud in Ethiopia
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African rondavel style with round white stucco walls and thatched roof
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say the least; a cottage-chalet constructed of a bluish granite rock with a thatched roof and
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The rain taps at the thatched roof and drips off into the mud
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Thatched roofs covered each of them
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The escort were so wretchedly clothed, that they twisted straw round their bare legs, and thatched their ragged shoulders to keep the wet off
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The thatched roofs, like fur caps drawn over eyes, reach down over about a third of the low windows, whose coarse convex glasses have knots in the middle like the bottoms of bottles
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Past thatched wayside cottages whose inhabitants came out to wave their hands in friendly greeting
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There was a hole in the thatched roof to let out the smoke of the fire in the middle of the earth floor
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Not to inherit by right of primogeniture, gavelkind or borough English, or possess in perpetuity an extensive demesne of a sufficient number of acres, roods and perches, statute land measure (valuation 42 pounds), of grazing turbary surrounding a baronial hall with gatelodge and carriage drive nor, on the other hand, a terracehouse or semidetached villa, described as Rus in Urbe or Qui si sana , but to purchase by private treaty in fee simple a thatched bungalowshaped 2 storey dwellinghouse of southerly aspect, surmounted by vane and lightning conductor, connected with the earth, with porch covered by parasitic plants (ivy or Virginia creeper), halldoor, olive green, with smart carriage finish and neat doorbrasses, stucco front with gilt tracery at eaves and gable, rising, if possible, upon a gentle eminence with agreeable prospect from balcony with stone pillar parapet over unoccupied and unoccupyable interjacent pastures and standing in 5 or 6 acres of its own ground, at such a distance from the nearest public thoroughfare as to render its houselights visible at night above and through a quickset hornbeam hedge of topiary cutting, situate at a given point not less than 1 statute mile from the periphery of the metropolis, within a time limit of not more than 15 minutes from tram or train line (e
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Beyond those, ringed by bare dirt, stands a pretty cottage with a thatched roof and stucco walls
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They walked a quarter of a mile and came to a low building with a thatched roof
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Yet even without knowing his brilliant record one could not fail to be impressed by a mere glance at the man, the square, massive face, the brooding eyes under the thatched brows, and the granite moulding of the inflexible jaw
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Over his head was a thatched roof, about seven feet up
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Two more bounced off of the building’s stout walls, three buried themselves in the stable’s thatched roof, and two bounced off the closed stable door
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prompted the general's reminiscences, but a genuine love of that wild life which he had led in his young days before he turned his back for ever on the thatched roof of the parental tolderia in the woods
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Why? Did you think you could put a collar and chain on me as if I were one of the watch-dogs they keep over there in the railway yards? Look here, Padrona, I am the same man who came ashore one evening and sat down in the thatched ranche you lived in at that time on the other side of the town and told you all about himself
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their roofs thatched with straw
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The community of fowls to which Tess had been appointed as supervisor, purveyor, nurse, surgeon, and friend made its headquarters in an old thatched cottage standing in an enclosure that had once been a garden, but was now a trampled and sanded square
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Long thatched sheds stretched round the enclosure, their slopes encrusted with vivid green moss, and their eaves supported by wooden posts rubbed to a glossy smoothness by the flanks of infinite cows and calves of bygone years, now passed to an oblivion almost inconceivable in its profundity
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At this occupation they could shelter themselves by a thatched hurdle if it rained; but if it was frosty even their thick leather gloves could not prevent the frozen masses they handled from biting their fingers
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The dry winter wind still blew, but a screen of thatched hurdles erected in the eye of the blast kept its force away from her
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Under the thatched roofs her mind's eye beheld relaxed tendons and flaccid muscles, spread out in the darkness beneath coverlets made of little purple patchwork squares, and undergoing a bracing process at the hands of sleep for renewed labour on the morrow, as soon as a hint of pink nebulosity appeared on Hambledon Hill
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she could discern the outline of the house—newly thatched with her money—it had all its old effect upon Tess's imagination
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Progress had looked on as tracts of jungle and thatched huts disappeared beneath a carpet of flame
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Across the road stood a stable with a thatched roof
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The thatched roofs, like fur caps drawn
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They soon came to a wooden gate, high and broad, beyond which they could see gardens and a cluster of low wooden buildings, some thatched and made of unshaped logs; barns, stables, sheds, and a long low wooden house
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Fire leaped from thatched roofs and wooden beam-ends as he hurtled down and past and round again, though all had been drenched with water before he came
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more than built imitations of smials, thatched with dry grass or straw, or roofed with turves, and having walls somewhat bulged
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Water dripped down from the thatched eaves above
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'Dotard! What is the house of Eorl but a thatched barn where brigands drink in the reek, and their brats roll on the floor among the
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'Think you that Wormtongue had poison only for Thjoden's ears? Dotard! What is the house of Eorl but a thatched barn where brigands drink in the reek, and their brats roll on the floor among their dogs? Have you not heard
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She knew no such troublesome thoughts ever disturbed the brains under the four flaming thatches in the carriage and, as always when she felt herself different from her neighbors, an irritated confusion fell upon her
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They were far less prone to fire than the thatching used throughout Ionia
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To dream that you are thatching a roof indicates that you are putting up a barrier between your conscious and subconscious state
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The ground groaned; I ran behind a heap of thatching bracken next to the cowshed
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'The thatching is temporary, Master Vowell
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walls of the priestess’ hut, making random designs on the thatching
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‘Well, you should have taken some men from the thatching
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Joan stated that they were in dreadful difficulty; the autumn rains had gone through the thatch of the house, which required entire renewal; but this could not be done because the previous thatching had never been paid for
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Three-lobed leaves or leaves cut in this fashion (e) can be locked over a thatching frame without any other fixing being necessary to hold them in place (f)
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Long broad leaves can be sown along the thatching battens with vines (h)
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"Well, you should have taken some men from the thatching
