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Tag Name "Thatched" (6)

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Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.
John Gummer
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We saw the children and the women with their babies and then I heard the poouff — the flame had broken through the thatched roof and there was a yellow- brown smoke column going up into the air. It didn't hit me all that much then, but when I think of it now — I slaughtered those people. I murdered them.
John Keegan
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I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.
Oscar Wilde
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It hurts the bald-head just as much as the thatched-head to have his hairs plucked.
Bion of Borysthenes
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An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage againThe birds singing gayly, that came at my call,Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.
John Howard Payne
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An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above.
Maria Mitchell