thatch the roofs. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The thatch is watertight and snug, though it must be replaced every few years. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture of Mexico: coastal architecture] Reference
No moss ever grows on the thatch, which is brown, with white ridges. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from the Cape] Reference
He listened attentively when I suggested a roof of palm thatch, which is much less likely to be damaged and more easily repaired. From Wordnik.com. [Veracruz: traveling the Central High Plains of Mexico] Reference
Follow local custom when using materials such as thatch, mud, or tile. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
Light roof materials, such as thatch or bamboo, are the best to use with either rammed earth or adobe brick walls. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
Where steepest thatch is sunk in flowers. From Wordnik.com. [A Hopeful New Year] Reference
And the straw of the thatch is eaten away. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale] Reference
Thomas, arise! yon thatch is now in flames. From Wordnik.com. [The Farmer and Labourer] Reference
'How beautiful the thatch looks!' cried one who saw it. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
She turned to rumple the smooth light thatch of his hair. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
It is all wrong, a spikey brown thatch tipped with white. From Wordnik.com. [Post] Reference
Celia's thatch of black hair fell untidily across the pillow. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Where is the thatch-roof village, the home of Acadian farmers. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
Behind her, in a thatch of long reeds, she heard Bug struggling. From Wordnik.com. [Country House] Reference
Presently the sun shone out, and the old thatch looked bright and fair. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
Shake felt as drunk as his red head, whiskers and thatch ever let him get. From Wordnik.com. [One Night Below Climax] Reference
The flame burnt orange and calm as she held it over the thatch of dead grass. From Wordnik.com. [Whatever Happened to Sue Ellen?] Reference
"A wonderful scholar art thou, Gargoyle with the wiry thatch," was the cutting comment. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
The patriarch led me at once to a hut, whose miserable thatch was supported by four posts. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Like many of the other Furnace Room Romeos, Ten-till-six wore a thatch of man-made hair on top. From Wordnik.com. [In The Land Of Sonny Bono] Reference
They are little more than prayer halls made of wood and thatch, and they are always undefended. From Wordnik.com. ['A Free Reign Of Terror'] Reference
Many of the homes don't even have roofs, just some thatch covering a corner of a walled in square. From Wordnik.com. [From the Twin Towers to Fallujah] Reference
In a fairytale picture book you live in the forest under the dripping gables, your roof is thatch. From Wordnik.com. [Hilary Mantel Comma] Reference
Their painting showed two tall thatch-roofed mud huts and a bird gently swooping down to hit them. From Wordnik.com. [Indian graphic artists draw outside the box for nonfiction 'Bhimayana'] Reference
Mitt Romney good looks with those fudgy brown eyes, determined jaw, and thick thatch of wavy hair. From Wordnik.com. [My First Serial Killer] Reference
The natives of Ceylon build houses of the trunk, and thatch roofs with the leaves, of the cocoa-nut palm. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
I watched him draw the Gypsy's skirts up over her hips, revealing the black curly thatch between her thighs. From Wordnik.com. [Small Victory: the realm of pawns] Reference
Terracotta in the shape of an animal would have decorated a grand tiled roof at a time when most people lived under thatch. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval roof finial found beside Thames] Reference
"An instant later, the huts beneath it exploded, mud and thatch and branches and bodies being thrown into the air," she writes. From Wordnik.com. [Piercing the Silence] Reference
She came out quickly, waving her fists, with a dense thatch of hair starting at her chin and patterning into spirals at her brow. From Wordnik.com. [Beautiful Ape Girl Baby] Reference
Then he thought he'd better water the cow before he turned her out on the thatch, and he took up a bucket to draw water out of the well. From Wordnik.com. [East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon] Reference
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