For the time of going back drew near, and he did not dread it, though loving Thatches and all it meant more and more with every day.
Guy was glad to have escaped the rectory tea, though he did not say this in assuring Mr. Haseltine that the entertainment offered at Thatches was absolutely to his taste.
Some of it went in building; and bygone beauties of old ripe thatches and cob walls that crumbled their native red through many coats of mellow whitewash, now vanished, yielding place to bricks, blue slates, and staring iron.
Here cattle-byres and shippons ranged snugly on three sides of an open space, their venerable slates yellow with lichens, their thatches green with moss.
Beneath the thatchesof their hovels small The terror dwells of feeling It is nigh.
Most quaint and ancient was this habitation--of picturesque build, with tiny granite porch, small entrance, and venerable thatches that hung low above the upper windows.
The horse in his freedom, like the pig in his confinement, lolled upon the ground, and the thatches rustled with the melodies of sleep.
Their ribs, moreover, are stout tree-trunks instead of slender saplings, while the thatches are partly of rushes and partly of broad strips of bark.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thatches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
