A second row of thatch overlaps the top of the first, and thus a waterproof covering is provided.
A closely woven mat of bamboo strips, or of bamboo beaten flat, covers each side of the roof, and on this the thatch is laid.
As old as the Hall, too, were the barns that clustered around it, the thatch of whose pointed gables was weathered to every shade of brown and grey, green with moss and golden with clinging lichens.
To add to the dreadful condition of the Bolands, the assailants had now succeeded in igniting the thatch of the dwelling-house, and it was immediately in a blaze.
I wished I could see the thatch that the chapel had for two hundred years.
Some years after we bought another pair, not nearly so tame as the first, and sometimes flying on to the cottage roofs and scraping holes in the thatch in which to bask in the sun.
The buckles are the wooden pins made of a small strip of withy, twisted at the centre so that it can be doubled in half like a hairpin, and used to fix the rods which secure the thatch by pressing the buckles firmly into it.
Edwin saw it also, and seizing a loosened tie-beam, he gave the great heap of thatch before him a tremendous heave, and sent it over.
The gruff rabbiter, who had been the first to come to Mr. Lee's assistance, followed her for a fork to move the heaps of thatch which hemmed Edwin in.
But the weight of the falling thatch kept the door from opening.
He sat on the ridge of the roof with the fidelity of a dog, howling and wailing, only pausing to bury his head in the thatch to listen to the faint and feeble sounds within.
The bang and crash, followed by a heavy thud just overhead, made Edwin and his father start back to opposite sides of the room as the roof gave way, and a ton weight of thatch descended on the bed Edwin had just vacated.
He found himself a pole among the broken arms of the trees, and set to work tearing away the thatch until the starlight waned, and the darkest hour of all the night put a stop to his efforts.
Meanwhile Edwin was tugging at the bulrush thatchwith all his might.
They eat and devour all that they can come at; as besides food, Cloth, Wood, Thatch of Houses and every thing excepting Iron and Stone.
Hickanella, much like a Lizzard, venomous, but seldom bites unless provoked, these ly in the thatch of the houses.
There is the Carowala, about two foot in length very poysonous, that lurks in the holes and thatch of houses.
The disappearance of the tobacco-box troubled him, for on seeking it under the thatch it was no longer there, and the discovery by his wife of a skeleton buried near their cabin caused him still greater uneasiness.
She accordingly went out and thrust the box up under the thatch of the roof so that it was impossible to suspect that the roof had been disturbed.
Its jungled banks were without a break, for the one or two clusters of thatch and reed huts along the way are but a part of the living vegetation.
Suppose a representative of that unsympathetic government came snorting down upon you one day in a wild fearful invention they called a motor-boat, as you were lolling under the thatch roof your grandfather built, and cried: "Come on!
On this side of the water, a diminutive shrine, red-painted, with columns and architrave of many colors and a roof of thatch all green, out of which are growing the small stems of young trees.
Some heads were bare; that is to say, their thick black thatch was bound with a long handkerchief, which otherwise hung on the shoulders or danced around their necks.
If I ever become a rich man, Or if ever I grow to be old, I will build a house with deep thatch To shelter me from the cold, And there shall the Sussex songs be sung And the story of Sussex told.
He gave no explanation even when he returned; but the next morning, at daybreak, three bodies were found hanging by the neck from poles stuck into the thatch of one of the unconsumed cottages.
Large, heavy, roughly hewn rafters appeared above, with the inside of the thatch visible between the beams.
The first thing he did on coming home was to buy up his mother's croft, re-thatch the old house, and put in a poor person to take care of it.
Still she trembled, for the eager beasts had ripped the thatch from the canopy, and their inthrust jaws made short work of the few leaves on her screen.
Finding that they could not break down the barrier, they began to scratch and tear at the thatch which covered the frame.
The leaflet of the sago folded and tied side by side on the smaller midribs form the "atap" or thatch in universal use, while the product of the trunk is the staple food of some= hundred thousands of men.
The rooms were all boarded, and had ceilings, which are a great nuisance, as there are no means of hanging anything up except by driving nails, and not half the conveniences of a native bamboo and thatch cottage.
At one end of this piece, separated by a thatch partition, was a cooking place, with a clay floor and shelves for crockery.
Our crew consisted of four men, whose pole accommodation was about three feet by four in the bows and stern, with the sloping thatch roof to stretch themselves upon for a change.
The houses in Timor are different from those of most of the other islands; they seem all roof, the thatch overhanging the low walls and reaching the ground, except where it is cut away for an entrance.
One day a man was caught in the act of stealing a piece of iron from Herr Warzbergen's house, which he had entered by making a hole through the thatch wall.
It was entered by a low sliding door of thatch on one side, and had a very small window on the other.
He was thrown off--a piece of the thatch struck upon his head--the child uttered a sharp cry and fell.
The men began their odious work--the straw bands were cut, the heather thatch thrown in pieces on the ground.
The hut was a structure made of poles and a thatch of brush and grass that was of about the shape of a Yankee haycock, and only a little larger.
For the roof, a thatch of the long pampa grass is also common.
They also make a capital thatch for sheds, a thatchnearly a foot thick, warm in winter, and cool in summer, and durable, for if well made it will last for forty years.
When the thatch is all in place the whole is "drove," that is, beaten up close with a wooden bat that strikes against the ends of the chips and drives them up close, jamming them tight into the fastening.
But the accusing voice still went on: "And when the good old shepherd went to sleep a second time, then the naughty little boy climbed on the table and picked a hole in the thatch and got out and ran away.
The exterior with three roofs of mossy thatchsupported on bamboo poles, offers a shelter from the sun on a flight of crumbling steps, overshadowed by the spreading eaves.
The houses are very inferior, consisting of thatch and mud.
The other huts were made somewhat of a similar construction, as they are represented in Woodcut 5, but all differed in shape: it did not appear that they had been very recently inhabited for the greater part of the thatch was burnt.
Upwards of a hundred of these reeds of thatch will be required for a single row running from the eaves to the ridge pole; then they do another row, and so on all round the house.
The child in his bed suffers similar fears when he covers eyes and ears that he may not see the strange shadow of the wardrobe, or hear the stifled cries of the thatch on the roof.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thatch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
