The cook-house is a small attap shed, in a place cut into the hill, and an inclosure of attap screens with a barrel in it under the house is the bath-room.
These wooden bungalows are hot, for the attap roofs have no lining, but they are also airy.
He has scarcely left me since, except to go out to sleep on the attap roof.
They are all conical buildings of wood and attap raised on wooden pillars, and are usually on small knolls a little way from the kampongs.
Above this is a large wooden bungalow with an attap roof, which is the British Residency.
It is not far from the Court House to the prison, a wholesomely situated building on a hill, made of concrete, with an attap roof.
The house consists of two attap roofed bungalows, united by their upper verandas.
I left Mr. Justice Wood's yesterday, and his servant dispatched me from the jetty in a large boat with anattap awning and six Kling rowers, whose oars worked in nooses of rope.
There is a deep veranda under an attap roof of steep slope, and at either end a low bed for a constable, with the usual very hard, circular Malay bolsters, with red silk ends, ornamented with gold and silk embroidery.
In the centre of the plantation we found a huge wedge-shaped attap house for drying pepper, and there we rested.
A gray lizard darted from out its hiding-place in the attap at a great atlas moth which worked its brilliant wings; clumsily it tore their delicate network until the air was full of a golden dust.
Hamet, and drawing Ned's arm out to full length, he made him stoop a little in the black darkness, with the result that the boy's hand rustled among the leaves of the attap covering.
The common houses are of bamboo, with attap roofs; some are built of wood, and few of brick; but with few exceptions, they all stand upon high piles.
Three fourths of two sides of the room were open to the air, protected from rain only by the long projecting attap roof--we were guarded during the night by soldiers and excessively annoyed by moschetoes.
It must be through the roof, for the attap is only soft and the strings thin.
Drawing herself quickly up, she passed through the hole in the attap roof, crawling right out; and directly after, having turned, Helen saw her leaning through.
The shell makes good charcoal; the leaves are scarcely put to any purpose, the nipah or attap being a superior material for thatching.
But Luang Nai Sit did all he could to make us comfortable on deck, spreading a double awning over us, one of thin canvas, and the other of attap leaves.
The roof is made of attap leaves, which rattle like hail in the wind.
Curtains of plaited bamboo are hinged to the attap roof above the helmsman, and when shut down will keep out rain or sun.
The helmsman has a slightly raised attap roof over his head, and he (or she, for the wife and the children down to six years old can steer as well as the father) looks out from under this and over the long low roof in front.
Their watching in the verandah came to an end on the appearance of the little party, and they were posted ready to rush in to the attack of the reptile if it should be shot and come wriggling down off the attap thatch.
He will die now," said the man, and the long, lithe body was dragged to the bottom of the garden and stretched out on the bamboo landing-stage beneath the attap roofing.
Then the attap will all fall back again, and no one will see as the place has been disturbed.
Here's poor Mister Archie lying down below badly hurt, and me stretched on the top of this attap roof, pinned out like a jolly old cock butterfly meant for a specimen.
As he spoke he raised his leg up, holding on to the attap roof the while, gave two or three sharp kicks, and threw his leg off the spear-shaft and let it fall free upon the slope, where he lay now upon his back shaking with laughter.
He began thrusting the attap thatch a little upward, and there was a loud scuffling and beating of wings.
There was a few moments' hesitation, and then the revolver fell softly upon the earth just beyond the shelter of the attap mat.
Then Dula said I must lie under the attap mats, as they were going to pretend that they did not hear the call.
A faint cry escaped from the young officer's lips as he grasped at the brittle attap mat, which gave way at once.
Why, my lads could knock up a better palace in no time with some bamboo poles and attap mats.
Yes, Pete," replied the subaltern in a voice that he hardly knew as his own; and rising clear of the bushes, he made his way to where he could dimly make out the figure of Minnie kneeling beneath the attap roof.
For the plashing of poles reached his ears, and the dark form of a good-sized sampan came round a curve, with its attap awning glistening softly like dead silver in the moonlight.
Along each bank are the floating houses made of teak and plaited bamboo, and thatched with the long spear-like leaves of the attap palm.
Along the river banks and near water generally, the attap palm grows in abundance, and its long fibrous leaves make an excellent thatch.
It was very dark, for the holes in the roof had become choked with creepers, which had formed a new thatch in place of the old attap top.
There are narrow passages five feet wide at the right and left of these rooms, which are simply enclosed verandahs, with each an attap roof, leading to a narrow room of the same width and kind in the extreme rear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "attap" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
