1 The thatch had fallen in, the walls were unplastered, and the door was off its hinges.
2 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.
3 The firelight flickered on the hewn logs that supported the thatch overhead.
4 Highest of all Manlius, warder of the Tarpeian fortress, stood with the temple behind him and held the high Capitoline; and the thatch of Romulus' palace stood rough and fresh.
5 Behind the church a long village stretched in two rows, with chimneys peeping out here and there above the thatched roofs.
6 Beside it, in a young birch copse, could be seen a small house with a thatched roof.
7 The horses also had been fed for a fortnight on straw from the thatched roofs and had become terribly thin, though still covered with tufts of felty winter hair.
8 He was perfectly at home in the thatched cottage and in the mountains.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS 9 Only two visitors, the bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques and Marius, were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF 10 The farmhouses were my delight, with thatched roofs, ivy up to the eaves, latticed windows, and stout women with rosy children at the doors.
11 On the outskirts of the town, within the verge of the peninsula, but not in close vicinity to any other habitation, there was a small thatched cottage.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE 12 Presently, against one of those banks, I saw a sort of shed, thatched with the same wine-coloured grass that grew everywhere.
13 Behind the white palings was a little garden; behind the garden an old, irregular, thatched house, facing the heath, and commanding a full view of the valley.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer 14 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.
15 The house was encrusted with heavy thatchings, which dropped between the upper windows; the front, upon which the moonbeams directly played, had originally been white; but a huge pyracanth now darkened the greater portion.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight