A young maid marry to an old man is like a new house thatch with old straw.
"In your sail-Boat of sweet cinnamon-wood You will float again toward your own thatch door, Led along by distant trees To a sunset shining on a far-away town."
Tess, being left alone with the younger children, went first to the outhouse with the fortune-telling book, and stuffed it into the thatch.
Not everyone sees America's fiery ambassador—with his remarkable white walrus moustache under a reddish-brown thatch—quite that way.
Her husband, a fisherman, is out at sea. His motorcycle is parked proprietarily under the thatch.
His lips trembled a little, so that the rough thatch of brown hair which covered them was visibly agitated.
Acrid fumes of still-burning thatch - hours earlier the rooftops of orderly houses - assaulted my eyes and nose as I stepped out onto a bed of ashes in a smoldering rice field.
The plants’ foundations have already been laid, their steel reinforcing bars pointing skyward, on a desolate landscape dominated by thatch-roofed huts and last season’s cornfields.
