well-thatched

As rain does not break through a well-thatched house, passion will not break through a well-reflecting mind.

The Dhammapada 2003

Lying on the front seat, when I went round there, was a large glossy magazine entitled American Hair Club, with a young well-thatched model-type man smiling broadly on the cover.

Decider Francis, Dick 1993

If you had said of him, "He is well-fleshed, well-groomed, and intellectually well-thatched," you would have voiced the opinion of most of his acquaintances.

The Darrow Enigma Melvin Linwood Severy

The neat white walls, well-thatched roof, and clean casement-windows, ornamented as they were with honeysuckles and roses, attracted the admiration of a few strangers, who, from the uncommon beauty and grandeur of the scenery, were tempted to turn off the direct road from

The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People

Dick stared at the pile of unlit logs in the fireplace and felt the rhythmic strokes of his mother's hand upon his well-thatched head as she watched him in sympathetic silence; but he saw the eyes of his fellow classmen and felt their good-by hand-clasps.

Jewel Weed Alice Ames Winter 1904

In it we found some well-built, well-thatched farm-buildings: a sheepfold, a goatpen, a cowshed, a strongly built structure like a granary or store-house, another like a repository for wine-jars and oil-jars; hovels such as all mountain farms have for slave-quarters and a house or cabin little better than a hut, mud-walled, like the other buildings, but new thatched.

Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900

The houses of San Pedro are well constructed of stone, set in adobe, and have well-thatched roofs.

In Indian Mexico (1908) Frederick Starr 1895

The roof of the log lean-to can be either of boards or well-thatched poles which have first been overlaid with bark.

On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls Lina Beard 1888

Slight rainstorms are likely to be encountered in a trip round the mountain, but one may easily find shelter beneath well-thatched trees that shed the rain like a roof.

Steep Trails John Muir 1876

As rain does not break through a well-thatched house, passion will not break through a well-reflecting mind.

Dhammapada, a collection of verses; being one of the canonical books of the Buddhists 1861