| 单词 | wattle |
| 例句 | So many weeks we spent cutting trees, splitting clapboard, tying thatch, making wattle and daub. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z It makes the stone houses drip and the wattle and daub houses look soggy. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He let her scold, shake her wattles at him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The women all stayed in the wattle huts, peering out the door, hiding their children behind their skirts, drawing back fearfully into the darkness of the huts as the strangers came up from the beach. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Nels Gudmundsson raised his chin, fingered his bow tie, and pinched experimentally the wattles of skin at his neck—a habit of his when he was thinking. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The wattle and daub cottages nearly always got burned, and had to be rebuilt afterwards with much profanity. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z His friendly old face was as red as a turkey gobbler’s wattle. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Every house was roofed with thatch, and had walls of wattle and daub. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He pinched the wattles of skin at his throat and turned his good eye on Judge Fielding. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Within moments it was little more than a heap of thatch, wattle, and clay. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Above and below the church were our dwelling places, some forty cottages and huts of wattle and daub, thatch and wood, dirt and mud, all in varying shades of brown. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z When he was a boy it had been timber and wattle, but Robert Baratheon had razed that structure to the ground. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z An even more spacious garden spread out in back, which boasted apple trees, a vegetable garden, a strip of flowers, and a patch of wattles. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z God, they’re ugly, with their plump white bodies and red heads and drooping wattles, which resemble inflamed scrotums, if she’s being honest. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He pulled the wattles of skin at his throat again and gazed at the ceiling for a moment. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Turkeys seem to be manic-depressive types, gobbling with blushing wattles, spread tails, and scraping wings in amorous bravado at one moment and huddled in craven cowardice the next. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a warm winter day, as warm as a spring day in England, and around the fort, men are outside, working on everything from repairing wattle and daub walls to shucking corn. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Someone’s rescued hen fluttered up to the bow of our boat and strutted placidly along the gunwale, its delicate wattles shaking as it plucked up ants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A bacon bouse of two-score ribs, A wattling of tripe—support of clans— Of every food pleasant to man, Meseemed the whole was gathered there. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Trump's guests dined on tables dressed in ombre yellow and green cloths — a nod to Australia's national colors, green and gold, drawn from the national flower, the golden wattle. Trump brushes off political controversy to wine and dine Australia at state dinner 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z There was other evidence of inattentiveness, like the oily mop of oversauced whole-wheat spaghetti with cabbage and red wattle pork. Restaurant Review: Little Park in TriBeCa 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Consider his description of the making of the traditional wooden fence called a wattle hurdle. Before Glitter and Glue Sticks, ‘Craeft’ 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Is it Mom — or you — who is worried by her wattle? Social Q?s: When Mom?s Weight Loss Leaves Floppy Skin 2012-04-05T21:39:57Z There are necks with wattles and necks with creases that are on the verge of becoming wattles. Nora Ephron, writer-filmmaker, dies at 71 2012-06-27T03:28:11Z If your lot is steep, you might need to install something horizontally across the slope to keep the mulch from slipping, such as straw wattles, which look like thick snakes of straw wrapped in mesh. Drainage and tree roots wreak havoc on stone walkway 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Old-timers called this Acadian building method “bousillage,” a country cousin to wattle and daub. At Home With Louis Michot: At Home With Louis Michot of the Lost Bayou Ramblers 2012-07-04T11:25:23Z At a larger pond just down the road, a dozen spectacled caiman lounged in the shallows, and a long-toed bird called a wattled jaçana waded alongside a roseate spoonbill. On a Colombian Savanna, Hawks, Caimans and So Many Stars 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z He went to Quebec and then the West Indies before applying for a job on a wattle plantation in Kenya. A Memoirist Remembers the Twinkle in Her Father’s Eye 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The seasonal link between, say, a wattle flowering and the arrival of fish species is breaking down. What planting tomatoes shows us about climate change 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Though popular in the British Isles, wattle fences are hard to find in the United States. Need a fence? Start weaving. 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Other species making use of color for courtship include the fan-throated lizard, with a wattle of iridescent blue and orange, and the Siamese fighting fish, its tail bristling with blood-orange finnage. Seeing Color: A Matter of Nature, or Culture? 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z For my wattles are up and I’m on my way To as many farewells as Caruso. Jane Sherman, 101, Dancer and Writer 2010-03-20T05:57:00Z And if he doesn't cite Yeats, with his clay and wattle cabin by "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", that's forgivable: nine bean rows and a hive for honey bees make no sense in ice-locked Siberia. Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson – review 2013-06-01T11:00:01Z Their combs and wattles are pruned to sleekness and their spurs are shorn down to make way for the knives cockers strap to either or both legs. Baby chimpanzee killed by adult at L. A. Zoo 2012-06-27T13:33:00Z Out of the three men positioned as the main catch, he fares the best in the masking department; the remaining lad is hidden underneath a rooster's beak, feathers and flaming red wattles. On "Sexy Beasts," love isn't quite blind – but it's an entertainingly shallow heavy petting zoo 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Think of staying resolute: Think of orange wattles in an orange suit. Style Invitational Week 1310: The Year in Redo, Part 2 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z At the top of the village, above the factory that processes wattle bark into tannin to cure leather, is our old house, a simple colonial bungalow, with a corrugated tin roof. Robert Mugabe's brutal 2008 crackdown: torture, death and a stolen election 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z Together, they almost look like the wattles of the two turkeys she pardons in grand, ridiculous, Thanksgiving presidential tradition. ‘Veep’ Season 5, Episode 5: The New Face 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Instead of vestments he wears rubber-toe shoes and a T-shirt that reads “Free Hugs”, his wattle and business end poking out from under the hem. Purists v partiers: the battle between two popular nudist resorts 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Cheese just scans the room, mouth open, wattle wagging. Becoming the National Thanksgiving Turkey, a slightly cheesy story They were often edged with small barriers such as low wattle fences made with pliant branches, or tiny living hedges of germander and trimmed boxwood. The key to growing healthy plants: Stay off the soil 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Titled “Immersion,” Clarke’s artwork is made of plywood paths set against straw wattles, with the coiled straw nodding to Cahuilla basket weaving traditions. Desert X Finds Roots in the Region 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z In comparison, carbon-capture plantations are usually monocultures and are dominated globally by just five tree species -- teak, mahogany, cedar, silk oak, and black wattle -- that are grown for timber, pulp, or agroforestry. Carbon-capture tree plantations threaten tropical biodiversity for little gain, ecologists say 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z The victims: Banksias, wattles, gum trees, and more. After Mass Killing of Trees on a Wealthy Waterfront, a Theory Takes Hold 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z The feathered and fidgety duo settled into their new pens, their vibrant red wattles jiggling with every step, a stark contrast to their icy pale faces. With a waddle, gobble and trot, turkeys pardoned by Biden return to NC to retire 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z The queen’s death on Sept. 8 came in the Southern Hemisphere spring when wattle blooms, its golden flowers and green leaves reflecting Australia’s national colors in what has become a symbol of unity. Australia holds national day of mourning for British queen 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Normally, turkeys top out around 20 pounds, with fleshy wattles that hang down their necks and another protuberance called a snood hanging over the beak. As wild turkeys grow in number, so do risky encounters with humans 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Jones said the hen - which has brown feathers and a red comb and wattles - is believed to be a Rhode Island red. Wandering hen taken into custody at Pentagon security area 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Jones said the hen — which has brown feathers and a red comb and wattles — is believed to be a Rhode Island red. Wandering hen taken into custody at Pentagon security area 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Crews were also placing straw tubing known as wattles along stream edges to prevent sediment from washing into the waterway amid rain or snowfall. After a devastating summer of fire, parts of California might get a break this fall 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z The practice, Rorke wrote in court papers, is done “to prevent injury during a cockfight, as a comb/wattle will bleed profusely when cut.” This Md. county — known for its lawyers, lobbyists and scientists — was also home to a breeding operation for cockfighting, police allege 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z “It’s realism on top, see,” he says as he shows off the ceramic lid with a perfect, proud chicken head, the comb, the wattles, the puffed breast. Perspective | Suburban Burning Man: A weird, art-encrusted cottage on an ordinary street 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z A computer that old may as well be made of wattle and daub. Perspective | I thought a new computer would improve my life. That was my first mistake. 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z Install straw-filled wattles horizontally across steep slopes that are newly planted. Your December garden chore list: Water wisely, plant liberally and beware of frosts 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z On the steep incline, workers were hustling to hammer in stakes to hold the wattles in place. Rain in forecast threatens wildfire recovery in Northern California 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Siegel said he knew of no reason to remove a rooster’s wattle. This Md. county — known for its lawyers, lobbyists and scientists — was also home to a breeding operation for cockfighting, police allege 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Compost “socks” are similar to wattles but are filled with compost. What to do in your garden in November? Plant, plant and plant - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z They warned that water losses due to invasive species could triple by 2050 because trees including black wattle and cluster pines are spreading. South Africa’s invasive species guzzle precious water and cost US$450 million a year 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z He depicted a countryside strung with wattle fences. Wattle fences: Weaving branches takes time, yields rewards 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Payo’s red comb and wattles shake as he jerks his head around like a robot and stares at his visitors. Rescued sacrificial rooster terrorizes a Miami neighborhood 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z To mitigate erosion and mudslide concerns, the county has added straw wattles to tributaries and K-rails to road shoulders. Rains finally arrive, bringing new danger in California's vast fire zones 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Numerous vulnerable and endangered species are threatened by the construction of the dam, including the Euphrates softshell turtle, the red‐wattled lapwing, and many other rare birds, bats and mammals. Turkey's 12,000-year-old Hasankeyf citadel faces obliteration 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z The iconography of Chicken Don is straightforward and compelling: he sports a shiny gold upswept hairdo, comically angry eyebrows, and a bright red wattle. Meet the Man Behind the Giant Inflatable Chicken Mocking President Trump 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z It was a eureka moment: A wattle fence is made of sticks driven into the ground and interwoven with twigs and branches. Wattle fences: Weaving branches takes time, yields rewards 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z The chicken sports a bright red wattle, the fleshy comb found below a rooster’s beak — echoing the president’s favorite color of necktie. Why Was There a Giant Inflatable Chicken Near the White House? 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z He is a colossus among men, with piercing eyes, large hands and an elegant wattle like a turkey prince. Opinion | ‘Killing Bill’ (in the style of noted historian Bill O’Reilly) 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z The backyard offers an experimental approach to a steep hillside with a gabion wall, hemp and wattle netting. Prepare to have garden envy at L.A.'s premier native plant tour 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Over time, they expanded the city with landfill and planted crops on floating gardens called chinampas, plots of arable soil created from wattle and sediment. Mexico City is a parched and sinking capital 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z The wattle fence, I learned, was an ancient technique in use until the 1900s. Wattle fences: Weaving branches takes time, yields rewards 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z It would be incorrect to think of him as an African well satisfied with a mud and wattle hut, and with crude sanitary conveniences. “A United Kingdom” Is Nourishing and Mild 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z They appeared on a giant rooster statue, just above some three-toed feet and a blood-red wattle that hangs below a gilded nose and mouth. China Warmly Welcomes a Giant Rooster With Trumpian Characteristics 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z “Maybe I have a bit of a turkey wattle under my chin now, from the weight loss; eventually, I may try to do something about that.” The Surgical Solution to Obesity? 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z These are made of woven branches called wattle, but apparently without daub, the mud or clay that usually seals such construction. Bronze Age inferno preserved an extraordinary view of life in the United Kingdom 3000 years ago 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z This year, I started a second wattle fence for an even larger section of garden. Wattle fences: Weaving branches takes time, yields rewards 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z The wattles of the local chickens turned from crimson to black. ‘We have a chance to show the truth’: into the heart of Chernobyl 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z The solution: Position water-absorbing fiber roll or lengths of straw wattle roll to act as a catchment. 7 ways to protect your drought-landscaped property from El Niño rain 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Animals are “sad to be themselves”: the prize steer is “humble in his stall,” and the turkey is “a turkey even to his wattle.” The Bards of Boston 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Lastly, her team studied a wild population of Gould's wattled bats near Melbourne, Australia, and discovered their life spans matched the data from their model. Meet the Microbats: Winged Creatures' Secrets Revealed 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Now, I’ve found that the diggings of wild pigs on our land reach my first wattle fence and stop. Wattle fences: Weaving branches takes time, yields rewards 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Our near silence left undisturbed an African jacana, whose long toes enable it to spread its weight over floating lily pads, and a rare pair of wattled cranes—birds that stand almost 6 feet tall. Into Canoeing? Try It on an African River Safari 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Lengths of water-absorbing "straw wattle" or fiber rolls, to edge soil beds, granite paths and perimeters. 7 ways to protect your drought-landscaped property from El Niño rain 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z They were used to weave long weirs used to catch fish, and in the old wattle and daub buildings, he said. Minnesota author wants the world to go nuts 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z Skirmishes between lovers and haters of the wattled invaders have existed since the ducks made their way here from South and Central America. Feed ‘em or fight ‘em: The Muscovy duck wars rage on 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z South Island saddlebacks are glossy black, with patches of rust-colored feathers around their middles and little orange wattles that make them look as though they’re smiling. New Zealand’s Crusade Against Mammals | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Taylor said that for her Old English chicken she was asked when the males are “dubbed,” which means when their wattles and combs are removed. From colorful coop come champion chickens 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z At 2 years old, if showing enough prowess, the rooster’s comb and wattles are removed, and he is sold into the cockfighting ring. Mass. woman seeks to expand rooster rescue mission 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Other walls are made of wattle and daub, a mixture of mud, clay, and straw stuck onto a woven frame. DJ's ship-shaped shed is UK's best 2013-07-04T07:20:13Z No cellulite, no body hair, no turkey wattle. Angelina’s Mastectomy: Altered Bodies Are Already the Norm 2013-05-15T20:23:12Z In the hamlet of Lakwèv near the border with the Dominican Republic, about 50 families live in mostly dirt-floored wattle and daub huts. Haiti's rush for gold gives mining firms a free rein over the riches 2012-05-30T14:17:50Z The Believers cut down twigs of "araq" which they wattled, and so set up a shelter thatched with sheaves of "surfah". The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z There they were built of wattles, with conical thatched roofs. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z The walls were made with wattle plastered with mud, and the work was accomplished in a couple of days. The Curse of Carne's Hold A Tale of Adventure 2012-04-06T02:00:24.610Z Tall, feathery-foliaged, golden-blossomed wattles rise side by side with the olive-green turpentines, and through them runs the mountain brook in cataract after cataract. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z The barbel, so called by reason of his barbs, or wattles in his mouth. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Two or three sides of a few of them should be wattled with twigs, and the tops partly covered, in order to shield feeble lambs from cold rains, piercing winds, and the like. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z This time, if the ear could be trusted, he was making directly for the place where they cowered beside the wattle fence. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z Out of sheer curiosity he stepped across, and drew from the interlaced wattles the head of a small axe. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z In England the young people can 'go a-Maying,' and in Australia they have no happier time than when they go 'to bring the wattle home.' Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z Female similar, but without the wattles on the head and neck. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z The Bankiva fowl is a native of Java, and is characterized by a red indented comb, red wattles, and ashy-gray legs and feet. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z For one lick of my hurding wattle Would lay him out like a showman’s bottle! The Mountainy Singer 2012-02-20T03:00:20.273Z The wattled walls, though they were ventilated by a hundred crevices, stifled her. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z The tall slender stem of the 'wattle'—as the tree is termed—supporting a feathery foliage is everywhere to be met with in the south-eastern colonies. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z Long avenues of bent wattles like straggling caterpillars of every hue crawled up the slope, covered with the spoils of Enniscorthy--patchwork-quilts, sheets, ripped sacks, rugs, blankets. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z Their combs are generally double—or rose, as it is sometimes called—and the wattles small. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z A gorse-bound bar, a wattled hurdle or common sheep hurdle are all equally good for the first attempt, care being taken not to make the leap too high. The Barb and the Bridle A Handbook of Equitation for Ladies, and Manual of Instruction in the Science of Riding, from the Preparatory Suppling Exercises 2012-02-13T03:00:14.370Z They had made him as comfortable as they could, screening the head of his couch, which was towards the hut door, with a screen of wattle. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z In a room the odour of a mere twig of the wattle will often be found to be overpowering. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z Formal flower-beds do not often occur, and, where shown, they are sometimes surrounded by a low wattled fence—a protection against rabbits, probably. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z They are of a black or dark auburn color, with very large, thick legs, single comb and wattles. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z At last, of snowy white, the gather'd flocks Are in the wattled pen innumerous press'd, Head above head; and rang'd in lusty rows The shepherds sit, and whet the sounding shears. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z In that hut of wattle, open to the sky, open in a dozen places to the curious eye, he had heard the voices, the cries, the threats of his pursuers. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z The wood is much used by the negroes in their wattled houses, as it is of a flexible nature. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z In this, was a rudely wattled pen some nine feet square; and in the pen were bunched six sheep. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z They have large and single combs and wattles, large cheeks, rather short tails, and small wings in proportion to their bodies. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z The station agent blew a little tin horn, green meadows and wattled fences began to glide past the car windows, and the interrupted discourse was resumed. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Then, while she clung cold, shivering, half fainting to the wattle, the darkness gave forth again that dull shuffling, moving sound, a little quickened perhaps, and a little more apparent. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z The palisades should be made of strong saplings, wattled together, say, ten feet high. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z The following morning the Prince recrossed the border, over a carpet woven of yellow wattle flowers. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z The comb is merely two or three spikes, and the wattles are rather small. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z In the midst of this platform a small hut gradually grew up, the walls of stout hazel-stakes wattled across with branches and willow-withs, while the roof was neatly thatched with reeds. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z The comb is high, its edge is deeply serrated, and the wattles are rather large. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z The simple shelters of cane and brushwood were soon replaced by huts of a neater pattern made of wattle and clay, with earthen floors, rounded porches and pent roofs. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z The houses were wattled, and plastered over with clay; and all the furniture and utensils were of wood. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z They have a small, double comb, and their wattles are also comparatively small. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z They were all busily engaged within the hut, nailing sheets of moss over the wattled walls, when a curious squeaking noise began to attract Peggy's attention. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z The form of the hen should resemble the above on a smaller scale, with small, fine comb and face, and wattles of a less intense red. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z Soon the town bristled with towers and turreted gateways, and the houses, no longer built of wattle and mud, began to foreshadow the strongly fortified palaces of a later date. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z The tembe is divided into apartments, separated from each other by a wattled wall. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z The legs are of a reddish flesh-color; the meat is delicately white, the comb large and single, wattles very full, wings good size. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z He was dressed in feathers from top to toe, with an immense bill, comb, and wattles, and acted his part well. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z The comb is thick and low, and destitute of serrations, appearing as if it had been partially cut off; the wattles are small, and the throat is bare. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z Frank, now in a state of collapse, was lifted from his kartel and carried into the back room of the only store in the place—a rude wattle and daub shanty thatched with grass. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z The road had been dug out, the pit covered with wattle, and the surface restored to its original appearance. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z Their combs are usually double, and very short, though sometimes cupped, rose, or single, with wattles small; and they are usually very red about the head. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z Sometimes the sides are enclosed with a rude wattle work of weeds and bushes, making a grateful shade, admitting air freely; screening those within from view, while permitting vision from within outward in any direction. Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona 2011-11-21T03:00:13.817Z The comb is merely two little points, and the wattles very small. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z They lived in a rough ‘hartebeest house’ of wattle and reeds in a magnificent kloof on a tributary of the Marico. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z By the roadside there was a patch of soft, green grass, and a wattle bush, yellow-crowned, beautiful. The Coo-ee Reciter 2011-11-20T03:00:16.890Z The wattles are very small; the comb, as in other high-crested fowls, is very diminutive; and the skin and flesh white. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z Sometimes after the vachtoe had been inclosed with wattle work the whole structure was plastered over with adobe mud and then became a caws-seen, or storehouse. Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona 2011-11-21T03:00:13.817Z The wattles are smaller than in the other breeds, and of a bluish tinge. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z It is exactly as Kwaneet remembers it, a low cottage of wattle and daub, neatly thatched. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z Oh the long, long way they had come, the endless stretch of red, red road that wound back to the gold-tipped wattles, the velvet grass, and their baby! The Coo-ee Reciter 2011-11-20T03:00:16.890Z In the female, there is scarcely any show of comb or wattles. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z The extremities, where the blood flows freely, as the toe of a man, the ears of a horse, or the combs and wattles of fowls, are its favourite spots. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z Their combs and wattles are liable to be injured by severe cold, from which these fowls should be carefully protected. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z The strawberry-red wattles under the turkeys’ chins and their iridescent feathers make them stand out from the Canada geese grazing nearby. Staten Island Journal: Wild Turkeys Are Nuisance on Staten Island 2011-11-05T01:29:35Z The baby was blinking happily up at a great fat golden beetle that was making a lazy way up the wattle. The Coo-ee Reciter 2011-11-20T03:00:16.890Z A large comb or heavy wattles are rarely seen on the hen at any age; but the comb of the male is high, deeply indented, and his wattles double and large. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z In Saxo the floor of the house consists of serpents wattled together, and the roof of sharp stings. Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland 2011-10-31T02:00:30.820Z The wattles are very small; the neck closely feathered, and like a rope, with a space for an inch below the beak bare of feathers. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z In the shepherd’s wattled house my mother stayed with me, a little infant, and in that house I grew from babyhood to childhood, and from childhood to boyhood. The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles 2011-10-31T02:00:27.780Z They had begun to climb the mountain pathway, a devious and stony track through wattle bushes and gum saplings, and it had grown almost too dark to see his face. A Humble Enterprise 2011-10-29T02:00:12.483Z The Residency then was a low and dark bungalow built of wattle and daub, and thatched. My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills 2011-10-26T02:00:28.847Z I can sniff now the delicious air, rain-washed to more than even its accustomed purity, the scents of gum and wattle and fresh-springing grass, the atmosphere of untainted Nature and the free wilds. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z To save the bird from excessive loss of blood his wattles are usually cut off a week later. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z The silver wattle of nursery catalogues is named for its abundant, silvery-pubescent, feathery foliage. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z That is a house, sir, built yn yr hen dull in the old fashion, of earth, flags and wattles, and in one night. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z Inland, the wattled huts of the negroes had outlasted the great manor-houses. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z The hives were made of rushes, straw, osiers or of wattled hay. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z Accordingly, he built a coracle of wattle covered with hides tanned in oak bark and softened with butter. Minor Poems Little Classics, Vol. 15 2011-09-29T02:00:16.533Z He seemed to have been immured within its walls of mud and wattle for days, rather than hours. Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z For them I builded a hut Of saplings and wattles, And she with her fingers Fashioned bowls from the clay. The Piper and the Reed 2011-09-10T02:00:23.967Z He and his mother greeted us, and with beaming courtesy we were led to their wattled hut, where a timid sister gave us grapefruit. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z He stared, when he looked for the little wattled cells of the Sons of Patrick. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z In other words, the stockade comprised "puncheons" which were matted and "wattled"—"wattling" being the term for the basketry type of weaving of branches and bark strips. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z This wall, some eight feet in height, had been built by erecting two walls of stout wattle and posts, two feet apart, and then filling the space between these two with earth. Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z Yet that same bosom babe Moses did bare Safe in his cradle of wattles! The Piper and the Reed 2011-09-10T02:00:23.967Z One thought kept recurring—of the little girl far back in the dark depths of the wattled hut. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z The roof was of wattle and reed, the thatching of which had been done entirely by native women because in Nel’s opinion they understood the work thoroughly. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z When the posts of a fort were wattled six inches apart, it was comparatively easy for the defenders to shoot through cracks in the wattling. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z Bertram entered one of the least burnt of the well-made huts of thatch and wattle. Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z There were several other houses of sorts; they were rough wattle and daub erections which were called houses, as an acknowledgment of pretensions expressed in the rectangular shape and corrugated iron roof. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z There's more — and sometimes less — to aging than jowls, wattles and crow's-feet. For President Obama and other boomers, what's in a face at 50? 2011-07-30T23:35:04Z There he crouched down under a wattle, and hid and concealed himself. Tales from the Old French 2011-07-09T02:00:12.200Z Then the interstices were closely woven with branches—that is, wattled,—and were plastered with mud. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z It had been so riven by the spectre that it was made firm by wattles only, and the moon glinted athwart the crevices. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z The throat, also, is sometimes ornamented with a beard, or with wattles or caruncles. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z An outshoughi consists in a barrier of stakes planted across the river, and sometimes wattled. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z They saw no one, and no one seemed to see them, though it is hard to say in India what eyes may not be peering through wattle screen or heavy barred door. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z The usual fence was a row of irregular pales, but sometimes it was made of wattles. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z Then the wattles slip from their places, and a dark arm rips them out in bunches, and flings them away. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z Old Dogolwana and the women could hear the low click, click of the steel on the flint through the “wattle and daub” wall of the hut. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z After this he hurriedly put on his best suit of clothes, and took down his trusty double-barrelled gun and its appurtenances from where they hung to the wattled roof. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z The Colonel darted a fat forefinger at his host and then drew back, and settled his purpled chin and wattled cheeks conclusively in his enormous shirt collar. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z The Britain of 1600 was a country of fortified manors, battlemented castles, thatched and wattled farmhouses, picturesque chimneystacks, half-timber work, winding tower staircases, and tracery-windowed abbeys, minsters, and little parish churches. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z The volunteers helped construct the wattle walls by threading the willow into the struts of the frame. In pictures 2011-06-05T03:24:50Z Then he tied it up again and hung it to one of the wattles of the hut. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z Small houses built in this “wattle and daub” fashion have been known to last hundreds of years. The Childhood of Rome 2011-06-02T02:00:22.297Z They built their own little huts of clay and wattles in the surrounding meadows, and took their turn at herding the sheep and grinding in the quern, or handmill, the corn for the daily bread. Life of Saint Columba Apostle of Scotland 2011-05-10T02:00:58.153Z In connection with this wattling and daubing of Virginia buildings, the two early churches on Eastern Shore are believed to have been puncheoned edifices. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z One taught the Irish monks to build their wattled cells. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z These poles are connected by horizontal pieces of wood, across which wattles are laid. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z Australia, again, has its own particular flora of eucalypts, of which some two hundred species have been distinguished, as well as wattles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z The building was of wood and wattles, and the work proceeded rapidly. Life of Saint Columba Apostle of Scotland 2011-05-10T02:00:58.153Z "Buildings were constructed of timber frames infilled with wattles and clay but in order to inhibit decay, the walls were raised above the ground on low sandstone foundations." Experts recreate Cumbrian Roman settlement 2011-04-17T14:11:18Z So I got down and drew this wattle from the side of a turf creel,—you see it is a strong blackthorn, and good stuff too. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z Mrs Howard said Gertie then developed wattles and her comb became much larger and more distinctive than it used to be. 'Sex-change' chicken shocks owner 2011-03-31T09:35:20Z This differs remarkably from the others in not possessing hackles, and in having a large unserrated comb of red and blue and only a single chin wattle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z There was a palaver house at the end of the village, a thatched little wattle hut perched on a tiny hill, and the Lord Elebi gathered there his captains and the chief of the village. Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z The situation had changed but in this—that no wolf now yapped about that wattled hut. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z Now it would be the winding wash and the wattled huts beside it, now the mottled skin of the rattlesnake or the curled plumes of the quail. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z "An increase in testosterone will result in a hen growing an extended comb, exaggerated wattles, and cockerel-like behaviour including strutting and crowing," explained Mrs Ford. 'Sex-change' chicken shocks owner 2011-03-31T09:35:20Z Probably the walls were wattled and the roofs were certainly thatched, for the urns show plainly the long beams fastened together at the top and hanging from the ridge down each side. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z He threw his face to the forest, as the natives say, and laughed, and the people of the village of O'Tembi, standing before their wattle huts, watched him in silent wonder. Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z I hid her in this wattled house, I served her water and poor bread. Poems & Ballads (First Series) 2011-02-28T03:00:30.587Z The valley lay below them full of purple mist, and away by the creek of Tres Pinos the brown, wattled huts of the campoodie like great wasps' nests stuck in the sage. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z The houses are constructed upon a circular plan of wattle and thatch. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Now this thin wall of wattles shall alone divide us. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z The whole fabric had been run up within six weeks, despite untoward weather; a few days of sunshine made the little habitation of wattle, clay, thatch, and whitewash fit for the reception of his family. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z If the theory be correct, there would be four distinct species of turkey—the American, the Mexican, the ocellated, and the tame—to say nothing of the queer tallegalla, or “wattled” turkey of Australia. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z All have single upright combs, which, with the wattles and the ear lobes, are bright red, a large bright eye, and yellow legs. A Guide for the Study of Animals 2011-01-18T03:00:14.913Z A little man, with neck wattled blue and red with queer suggestion of a turkey’s characteristics, lurched out of a group and came at Pulaski Britt with a meek and watery smile of welcome. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z While the words were on his lips the wattle door was shaken and a soft voice called. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z Subsequently it was a lodge made of earth, of stone or wattle work or adobe. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z He made a stubborn resistance from behind a wattling fence, on a hill thickly covered with pine. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z The comb is most commonly single, falling to one side in the hen, the wattles long and pendulous, the ear lobes white, and the legs yellow. A Guide for the Study of Animals 2011-01-18T03:00:14.913Z T. Stat. c. timber 12 Brown, lined white; quills lined, tipped white; tail tipped white; throat whitish; no wattle; f., smaller. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z It was her lips that Madeleine placed to the hole in the wattle wall. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z It was the highway when roads were only tracks and the boats in which men voyaged were of wattle covered with hide. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z And between the diaphanous foliage of the bamboos there appeared a small house, built half of stone, half of wattled bamboo, surrounded by a little garden containing a few white pots of roses. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z The Minorcas are glossy black in color, with a large drooping comb in the hen, and long, thin, pendulous wattle. A Guide for the Study of Animals 2011-01-18T03:00:14.913Z It has a small wattle of naked red flesh hanging at the side of the neck, hence the name. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z He advanced to the wattled door, prepared to receive an attack. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z Fifteen Years After A boy pushed the bracken and ferny grey and green wattle sprays from before a lichen-grown wooden cross. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z As is well known, over the bill of the common guinea-fowl rises a singular warty membrane like a casque, while two carunculated wattles hang from the lower mandible. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z The Black Spanish resemble the Minorcas, but are distinguished by the white face and cheeks and the white on the inner edge of the wattles. A Guide for the Study of Animals 2011-01-18T03:00:14.913Z Stat. c. timber 14.5 Brown streaked, lined white; red wattle ¼in.; whitish below eye, between shoulder and gill; wing quills and tail tipped white; centre abdomen yellow; f., smaller. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z I am passing a coil through the hole in the wattles. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z The creek banks on either side were fringed I with wattles and light-woods. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z The main tomb, which was made out of wood, thatch, reed and wattle, had burned to the ground, and supporters of the Buganda king, whose title is the kabaka, said the fire was arson. Fire at Tombs Leads to Deadly Clash in Uganda 2010-03-17T22:06:00Z Head covered with spongy caruncles; the throat with a longitudinal membranous wattle: 3 species. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History It is seen fairly often in small companies, especially on wattles and eucalypts, the wood of which it tears to pieces with its powerful bill to get the insect larv� feeding there. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z The walls were of wattle, closed up with clay to keep out the weather; the hearths were of stone slabs, and the floors of clay well trodden down. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" He traces out each of their halting-places, and finds the hut of wattles which Dermot has made for their shelter, and the bed of soft rushes, and the remains of the meal they had eaten. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race The wattle or acacia includes about 300 species, some of them of considerable economic value, yielding good timber or bark for tanning. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Palm branches and the like, woven in wattles, form the dwellings, of the poorer classes in the southern districts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" Miles and miles were passed of houseless monotony, the land often denuded of trees, and showing only a low growth of wattle, or some small shrub of the eucalyptus family. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands Under the cloudless curve Of a wide remorseless sky Sleeps the patchy scrub of the sweeping veld And the slim blue gums, and the wattle belt Where the shrike broods watchfully. Provocations There the poorer people lived on the marshy land near the Thames, huddled together in huts built of mud and wattle; and in such homes there must have been plenty of sickness and misery. Stories of London Huts of wattle and hurdle work dating from prehistoric times have also been preserved, some rising from the ground, others from platforms resting on piles sunk in the beds of lakes. Architecture The silver wattle grows freely in shifting sands and by its means waste lands, e.g. the Cape Flats, have been reclaimed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" In a brown coal deposit of Tertiary, or at least of "interglacial" age—whatever that may mean in Switzerland—he found some fragments of wood so interlaced as to resemble wattle or basket-work. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Behind the wattles rose the circled moon, Splashing her silver over poort and track. Provocations Ducks do not show any comb or wattles as in chickens. Ducks and Geese The building was a fair-sized oblong one, constructed of the usual wattle and “dagga” as to the walls, and with a high-pitched roof of thatch. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising Then he went in succession to some half-dozen tiny peep-holes, which he had diligently bored through the wattle wall of the hut. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War They described it as in all respects a serpent, but with a very curious shaped head, and with wattles on each side of its jaws. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series But what pleased Nod most to see, as he peeped stealthily down through the thorny wattle window, was an old grey Burbhrie cat, which sat washing her face in front of the fire. The Three Mulla-mulgars Strips of “limbo,” white and dark blue, concealed the wattle and thatch, giving the interior something of the aspect of a marquee. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland Remains of huts of logs, or of wattled work, are often found within the enclosure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Holding it firmly in his hand, he swept it slowly and in a circle over the wattle wall, his fingers following the cut. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War His surprise was greatly increased on perceiving that it was crested, and that from the side of the cheeks depended some red-coloured flaps, like gills or wattles. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series The construction was little more than a colossal hurdle, having beams for rods and chains in the place of wattles. Toilers of the Sea They were circular in shape, and were made of wattles or wood, and sometimes of stone. Women of England Each night's frost hardens the plastered clay till the conical wattled roof—never more than two feet thick—will support the weight of a moose. The Story of the Trapper Like all the habitations in Kumasi, the prison in which he was incarcerated was built of wattle, woven roughly together, and plastered with mud to fill the interstices. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War A familiar expression among sportsmen for a hare is “Wat,” so called, perhaps, from its long ears or wattles. Folk-lore of Shakespeare The elders, in charge of a shkando, or deacon, who directs them, are gathering bundles of long reeds and wattles, which they weave quickly and deftly into a sort of basket work. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations Buildings of this character can be made to look rather attractive, and, if neatly constructed, are very much superior, both in appearance and comfort, to slabs or wattle and daub.” Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) Having found the wattled homes of the beaver, the trapper may proceed in different ways. The Story of the Trapper He had crept across the open space between the two huts, and was now close against the wattle wall behind which James Langdon was sleeping. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War Sheep in the wattled folds Dreamily bleating, Dim on the thistled wolds, Where, glad with meeting, Morn the thin Night enfolds. Blooms of the Berry It looked strange enough to see all this wealth in a nest upon a cliff-side, wattled about growing trees. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) Some of these are of studwork and plaster, some of wattle and daub, but many are built of clay made up into lumps, sun-dried, and built into the walls with a soft clay-mixture as mortar. Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) It is the wreck of a wolverine's ravage—a little wattled dome-shaped house exposed to that arch-destroyer by the shrinking of the swamp. The Story of the Trapper The wattle when first uncovered is as good to all appearance as the day it was made. The Christian Church in These Islands before the Coming of Augustine Three Lectures Delivered at St. Paul's in January 1894 Imagine a hut whose walls are made of wattled twigs plastered with clay. Minor Poems by Milton It is made of cedar shakes stuck up in the ground crutchwise and wattled with mud. Through Our Unknown Southwest When a native habitation is deserted, the superstructure—pandanus thatch, wattle, unstable tropical timber—speedily rots, and is speedily scattered by the wind. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) London, still a mere cluster of wooden and wattled houses, was almost entirely destroyed by a fire. Old and New London Volume I Hence, perhaps, the preservation of the old wattle church, the conquerors being now Christians. The Christian Church in These Islands before the Coming of Augustine Three Lectures Delivered at St. Paul's in January 1894 Later, when they went back to the jacal of wattled cane, there was great rejoicing among the older folk that Pepe’s suit had sped so well. Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 When the clay has hardened they are held quite firm and you can make a wattled hut by weaving long straws or grasses in and out to form your walls. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes He lived in a little house woven of reeds and wattles, for his attraction was towards everything poor and humble. A Calendar of Scottish Saints The cable, for its preservation, was also carefully served or wattled with pieces of canvas round the windlass, and with leather well greased in the hause-hole. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) It led us through little mud villages with houses of mud and wattle, and some of stone with tiled roofs and rafters, and beams showing through the cement. With the French in France and Salonika Inside it was seen to be constructed of the branches of trees, twisted together or wattled, the interstices, or rather the whole surface, being covered with clay. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century He was born in a little hut consisting of “wattle and dab,” and as soon as he could make himself heard was sent into the fields to “mind the birds.” The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit Perturbéd at dews that drip from dome As wattling apes their horrors groan, The witch forsakes each glozing gnome, Affrighted at this gurgling vale. Betelguese A Trip Through Hell In the breeding plumage they have red comb-like wattles over the eye. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The motley of display seems endless, beautiful plumes, elongated feathery tresses, neck-ruffs, breast-shields, brightly-coloured cowls and wattles occur with marvellous richness of variety. The Truth About Woman I have seen his likeness enshrined in wattle huts at Omdurman and Wadi Halfa. With Manchesters in the East The varieties of the wattle are especially beautiful. Six Letters From the Colonies Gathering courage as the darkness deepened, the field-vole rustled from his lair, ran quickly down the slope, and crept through a wattled opening into the wood. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain The walls were five feet high, being neatly wattled with split bamboo, above which rose a pointed thatched roof. Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island His comb and wattles were of a bright crimson, his wings and feathers of a brilliant black and red, and his long, arching tail feathers were remarkably graceful and glossy. Harper's Young People, June 15, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Sassy did not pay any attention to the apron, but shook her wattles crossly, "k-r-r-red," and held her head so that one white ear lobe lay questioningly uppermost. The Biography of a Prairie Girl With fowls which have large topknots and beards the comb and wattles are generally much reduced in size. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) Between the trunks of the wattles they could see the forms of a party of blackfellows, watching them intently. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 On its beginning to rain while we were in the garden, he invited us into his house, which, from the walls being of wattled cane, looked like a large basket. Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island The duck has no comb or wattles on its head, and its long bill is broad and blunt at the end. Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors For Young Folks They live, these Arabs, in tents: the sides are made of straw and wattle hurdles; over the top is stretched an immense piece of brown or black camel's-hair cloth. In the Tail of the Peacock With the carrier-pigeon, by increasing, through steady selection, the wattles on the upper mandible, he has greatly modified the form of the lower mandible; and so in many other cases. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) Suddenly a spear came whirling out of a growth of wattle beside the pool. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 To hold the stakes all the more firmly, large stones were piled up against them, and the uprights themselves were closely wattled together by the broad flat branches of the spruce pines that grew near. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Under the bill on each side there hangs down a wattle of red flesh that looks very much like the comb. Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors For Young Folks Ossaroo stated that it is usually cultivated under a shed made of bamboos, and wattled all around the sides to exclude the strong rays of the sun. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains After having followed Don Estevan, at the invitation of the latter, inside the hovel, Cuchillo closed behind him the wattle of bamboos that served as a door. Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora Wattles, so named originally, I conceive, from several of the genus being much used for `wattling' fences or huts. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia “But for what purpose have you designed this hole?” inquired Ivan, pointing to the little aperture that had been left in the wattled enclosure. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt The wattled starlings whistled to each other, or fought as starlings will. The Dop Doctor Meryl sat on the little bed, in the round wattle and daub hut, and pressed her fingers against her eyes to still their throbbing. The Rhodesian Well, sir, I came to the first pitfall—and, lo and behold! something had been and taken the bait and got away with it without so much as putting a foot through the wattling. It, and Other Stories The mimosa, or wattle, . . . ushers in the Spring with its countless acres of charming and luxuriant yellow and highly scented blossom . Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia He had already got the barrel through the wattles, and was endeavouring to level it upon the bear—seeking for a mortal part at which he might aim. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt There were some clumsily indicated buildings, possibly sheds and stables of daub and wattle, eking out the ramshackle house. The Dop Doctor Walls of baked mud, which had fallen in places, laying bare the wattle stems, and a door made from packing-cases which fitted badly, and was fastened only by a string and a nail. The Rhodesian There I was at the bottom of the pit, with half the wattling on top of me. It, and Other Stories Buller says, "from the angle of the mouth on each side there hangs a fleshy wattle, or caruncle, shaped like a cucumber seed and of a changeable bright yellow colour." Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia How complex and lovely the bare lane of wattled dry reeds—the ineffable exquisiteness of patches of green corn, of a few scant pink blossoms, of the shoots of elder! The Spirit of Rome A wattled hut of brush, made by planting willow poles about a pit four or five feet deep and six to eight feet in diameter. The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts For ceiling long, thin wattle stems converging upwards, and outside a thatch of dried grass. The Rhodesian Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill; Go, shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes! Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold Under the eye, on each side, is a kind of wattle of an orange colour. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia The narrow track, which the wounded tiger had followed, led on towards the river bank, and presently the high wattled bamboo fence of a native compound became visible through the trees. In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula The uprights were interwoven with osiers or stout vines and, on these wattles, was daubed the clay and mud found in the surrounding area, which the colonists had mixed with reeds from the marshes. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century "I bet I have caught a wattle," said M. Guignolet, regretting that he couldn’t rub his hands together to testify his satisfaction. The Story of a Cat Up the roadway Lascelles must ride his horse past four men that bore a litter made of two pikes wattled with green boughs and covered with a horse-cloth. The Fifth Queen Crowned He will see, too, the purple of the sarsaparilla on the hill-sides, and the golden bloom of the wattle on the flats, forming a beautiful contrast in tint. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia But Haji Äli had a fine new house of his own, brave with wattled walls stained cunningly in black and white, and with a luxuriant covering of thatch. In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula Behind the wattled hedges the fruit-trees were reddening and all around the trees were red or golden. The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories They saw the huts of the native town, wattled and thatched, nestling close together; and below them was a fleet of native craft. The Explorer It was literally covered with bush of various descriptions, from the dwarfish wattle to the lofty gum, and iron bark; presenting to each other, in their various tints of foliage, a relieving contrast of colour. Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter The walls of the dormitory were constructed in what is well known as "wattle and daub." Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 Red as a turkey's wattles did he flame, and said I'd insulted him; and now, when he hears the secret, I can't for the life of me guess how he'll take it.” Humorous Ghost Stories There were twenty-five or more low huts of wattle and mud, roofed with leaves and grass. The Pools of Silence The wires should be made fast to the pickets after the wattling is done. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition When Angus and Grania had left him, Diarmid girded his arms upon him, and standing at one of the seven wattled doors, asked who stood behind. The Book of Romance The mass of wattles, usually so gray and shrunken, is now of most vivid hues—scarlet, blue, vermilion, green,—the fleshy tassels and swollen knobs making him a most extraordinary creature. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year A further characteristic of the Celtic Church was the rudeness and smallness of its buildings, which were of three styles—wattle and daub, timber beams, and unhewn stones. Chronicles of Strathearn In the centre stood the misnamed guest house, a large mud and wattle building, with a veranda gone to decay. The Pools of Silence If brush is scarce, gabions may be made with 6 ins. of wattling at each end, the middle left open. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition Their walls seem to have been of mud and wattle, or of some unsaleable stuff, and these, no doubt, served for a time for the lay brethren, after a little trimming and thatching. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England And taking his lasts, his awls, and his golden leaf, he left the wattle hut and went to tell the villagers. Granny's Wonderful Chair When the tide flows the fishes swim over the wattles, but are left by the ebbing of the water. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. An introduction to an Australian home—Off to a picnic—The wattle, the gum, the waratah—The joys of the forest. Peeps At Many Lands: Australia If the brush is small, uniform, and pliable, pairing will make a better wattling than randing. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition Barry coolly placed his foot on the stone, hauled Little away, and fell to work with his knife on the wattles which bound together the bamboos of the stockade. Gold Out of Celebes They were wattled with branches which projected a foot or so above them. The Long Portage First we drove strong stakes into the earth round about, which we wattled with boughs as thick as might be, beating them down very 37 close. Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages Past the little wattle grove there is a hill covered with the white gums. Peeps At Many Lands: Australia Three men should make a hurdle in 2 hours, 2 wattling and the third preparing the rods. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition Houses were rapidly erected; most of them consisted of posts stuck in the ground, interwoven with twigs of wattle trees, and then daubed over with mud. History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 The old wattled hall was blazing with torches and a crowd of eager listeners hung intent on the teaching of the Christian missionaries who had just arrived. The Gospel of the Hereafter Different from our trench, which was protected from enfilading only by cross walls at intervals, this trench zigzagged; moreover, its parapet was wattled. At Plattsburg The rooks were busy building in the great elms by the river; the wattles just below the lambing-pens were already turning red. 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers Hammer the wattling down snug on the pickets with a block of wood and continue until the top is reached. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition At night they slept beside the falls, where the air was fragrant with the sweet scent of the wattle trees just bursting into bloom. History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 I skulked in the scrub as he came up—just behind a clump of wattle. Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush The besiegers now let down quantities of stiff clay rolled up in wattled reeds, which could not be thus pulled away. Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality He must weigh fifty pounds ef he weighs an ounce, an' his wattles are a wonder to look at. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods The colours were the prevailing white clay, and red ochre plastered upon the wattle and mud pillars. The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason Above these, among the branches, the Tekeneeka hunter constructs a sort of wattle staging or nest. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Mean a man as ever God ever wattled a gut in I reckon. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 And in a minute the Acadian and half a dozen Spaniards, with axes, were chopping away at the palisades, and severing the wattles which bound them together. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 I kin fly low over your head, so low that I'll brush you with my wings, and with my red wattles, which are a wonder to see, an' you dassn't fire. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods The houses were wattled structures with alcoves and stuccoed façades, embellished with Moorish designs and coloured with red ochre. The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason I have seen, and do not hesitate to say, that most of them are better housed, better clothed, and better fed than in their own homes of wattle and daub, and mud floors.' The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct English Dragon differs from the improved English Carrier in being smaller in all its dimensions, and in having less wattle round the eyes and over the nostrils, and none on the lower mandible. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Under the chin he was pouched like a pelican and about the jowls was wattled like a turkey gobbler. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights The wattle hanging from the neck is of a light orange at the tip. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America These trees were a species of wattle, and were just opening out their yellow, sweet-smelling, downy flowers, which the beautiful birds were devouring eagerly. "Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging In The Pacific 1901 Among the wattles another time, and the wattles just in bloom. In the Mist of the Mountains Spanish Breed.—Tall, with stately carriage; tarsi long; comb single, deeply serrated, of immense size; wattles largely developed; the large ear-lobes and sides of face white. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Down in the gully where the growth was thicker, and where the wattles and willows made many a fairy grove, a small creek ran. An Australian Lassie As the breeding season approaches the males appear, uttering strange cries, puffing out these wattles, ruffling their feathers, and erecting their neck-tufts, as if wishing to appear to the greatest advantage before their mates. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Acacia dealbata.—The silver wattle tree of Australia. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture The first Tasmanian house stood on land adjoining the Macquarie Hotel: it was built by Lieutenant E. Lord, of wattle and dab—its windows, like the port-holes of a vessel. The History of Tasmania, Volume I Dorking Breed.—Size great; body square, compact; feet with an additional toe; comb well developed, but varies much in form; wattles well developed; colour of plumage various. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Betty stooped, grasped another stone, took aim at a distant wattle in sheer desperation, and caught Brown on the hand. An Australian Lassie On another occasion I accompanied the Maryborough doctor into the bush to shoot wattle birds for a pie; but we did not succeed in getting a pieful. A Boy's Voyage Round the World Acacia mollissima.—The black wattle tree of Australia, which furnishes a good tanning principle. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture He doctored it in the usual aboriginal manner: first powdering it with wood ashes, and then plastering the whole side of his face with wattle gum. Tom Gerrard Silk Fowls.—Feathers silky, with the primary wing and tail-feathers imperfect; skin and periosteum of bones black; comb and wattles dark leaden-blue; ear-lappets tinged with blue; legs thin, often furnished with an additional toe. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Against this tree upright stakes rested; and these again were wattled together, and firmly bedded in rocks that had been collected around their lower ends. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness They are very peculiar looking, grey in the body, with a black dab on the head, and a large bright yellow wattle just behind the eye. A Boy's Voyage Round the World These trees were first called wattles from being used by the early settlers for forming a network or wattling of the supple twigs as a substitute for laths in plastering houses. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture Remains of weirs, consisting of wattled work of reeds or saplings, are found in the rivers of northern Europe. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals The wattles, also, vary much in size, being small in Malays and some other breeds; they are replaced in certain Polish sub-breeds by a great tuft of feathers called a beard. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. "Maybe he won't touch us if we don't look at him," began the older sister; but the old gobbler, with ruffled feathers and wattles flaming, came straight toward them, and Peace stopped with a jerk. At the Little Brown House The first is easily identified by means of its white waistcoat, a patch of white on the thighs, and large red wattles that hang down like the ears of a blood-hound. Birds of the Indian Hills For holes in the thatch roof were stopped with heather, or mended with broad slabs of turf held down with stones and laboriously strengthened with wattle—a marvel of a roof. The Dew of Their Youth Toby and I built a wattle hut, and a shelter for the pony. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer Although the fence was but about three feet in height, the rabbits never attempted to leap over, but rushed head foremost against the wattles, and were either caught or knocked over with sticks. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Their rough and wattled farm-houses were being superseded by dwellings of brick and stone. History of the English People, Volume IV The combs and wattles of domestic and wild fowls cannot by any common process be prevented from shriveling and discoloring while drying, but when dry they may be restored by careful modeling in colored wax. Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration I came to the great holly, a cave of green shade in summer, and now a warm shelter in these tall solitudes of wattled branches standing purple and black against the winter sky. The Dew of Their Youth Their dwelling consisted of a row of huts which were connected with each other by means of wattled passages. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer That the snare may not be blown out of its proper place by the wind, or carried astray by the current, it is attached to the wattles of the hedge by some strands of grass. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire He next tore off several bundles of the tillandsia, and placed it over the spot thus wattled. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Their most common way is to make a number of hedges or wattle fences projecting into the water at right angles to the edge of the lake, or, it may be, river. The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Small rods are then wattled in so as to make it symmetrical and strong. The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions Frequently we entered extensive prairies, covered with blades of sword-grass, tall as our heads, whose jagged edges tore us like saws, though we protected our faces with masks of wattled willows. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver It was a mere tumble-down hut, with wattled sides, and a rotten thatched roof, containing two rooms, one small enough to serve as a bedroom. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands The walls were a wattle of vines and slender poles bent around the uprights, and daubed carelessly with a lining of mud. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico To keep the snare in its place, it is secured to the wattles of the fence with tender strands of grass, that of course give way the moment the fowl becomes entangled. The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Behind him, in a wide semicircle against the wattled walls, sat his black councilors, war captains, and wives, their eyeballs and teeth agleam in the light cast up by the embers. Sacrifice The Church was very small wattle and daub. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Following the windings of the creek, he came to the little mill, where, attracted by the shade, he seated himself close to the wattle fence of Polly’s little yard. Plantation Sketches The surrounding country is pretty, albeit rather bare; nor is the Australian wattle, of which there are now large plantations in the neighbourhood, a very attractive tree. Impressions of South Africa We gathered in a cluster near the wattle gate, the minister perhaps the only man who had the wit to acknowledge the reality of the vision. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn They were round him now, aligned against the wattled walls, behind the film of wood smoke; breathlessly awaiting the sound of his deep voice. Sacrifice We had a glorious service in a quaint church of wattles and earth and grass on a hill-top. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales The thatch had half blown off; the adobe-plastered stone fireplace and chimney had tumbled down, and sand had drifted in past the broken wattle door. Bloom of Cactus She stepped within the house, pulled out the wattle door and between it and the fir post stuck a disapproving face. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure The house receded from the passes and lay back in a plcasance walled by whin or granite, having a wattled gate at the entrance. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn The wattled walls hurled back a deafening chorus of war cries. Sacrifice The buildings, both ecclesiastical and civil, of the early Christians of the North were, as we have seen, made of wattles or wicker-ware. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author It happened through mischance that fire broke out in the abbey, and the flames were spreading so fiercely from one wattled cell to another that there was great danger of the whole monastery being destroyed. A Child's Book of Saints The General's voice in Gaelic rose over all but the river's murmur, as he called across the wattle gate to a herd-boy bearing in peat for the night and morning fires. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure "Well, wattle away then!" said the enraged traveller, as he threw himself back in the chaise, cursing all the postilions in Ireland. Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes There was a ruinous “wattle and daub” edifice which had been deserted by a Dutch Boer before the arrival of the settlers. Six Months at the Cape The biographer of Columba describes his followers as collecting wattles for the construction of their first edifice. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author They were in a cottage now, of the style familiarly known as “wattle and dab,” which was rather picturesque than permanent, and suggestive of simplicity. The Settler and the Savage All the early buildings, except the kiln, were of wood; the guest-chamber was wattled, Columba's cell was made of planks, and the church was of oak. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys But, as fast as these fell, fresh combatants took their places; and they continued hurling down stones, and blazing brands, upon the freshly-erected wattles round the battering ram. For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem The hut was poorly built, often of no better material than wattled sticks, cemented with mud, covered over with turf or thatch, usually without chimneys or even windows. Society Its Origin and Development The wattle, a tree of Australian growth, has been found to contain from twenty-six to thirty per cent of tannic acid. The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 That was the beginning of the Netherlands, as it was of Venice, and the fugitives built as the Venetians built, on piles, with wattles. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon The houses were built of lime and wattle, each about forty feet long, twelve high, twenty wide, and divided into three or four rooms. The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific They swept the Romans before them; and set fire to the engines, the wattles, and the palisades, and even to the woodwork of the embankment. For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem Though the dwellings of the native inhabitants are composed merely of wattle and daub, from the sea they present an imposing appearance. Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley The wattle will readily grow on the treeless plains of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, the bark of which ought to yield five dollars per acre counting the fuel as nothing.”—Invention. The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 Our road lay through a lightly timbered country, and here and there patches of scrub consisting of a sweet-scented wattle. Adventures in Australia It was built in a frame, a hundred and forty feet long and forty-five feet wide, filled up with wattle and lime plaster, white as snow. The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific Then, too, they will be sending great numbers of men up the hills, to cut timber and branches for their embankments, their breastworks, and the construction of the wattles to protect their machines. For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem There are about thirty European houses; the rest of the buildings, inhabited by the natives, are of wattle and daub. Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley When they ask where he is we’ll tell them, and then some of the shepherds can come with wattle hurdles and get him out.” The King's Sons They were not gone, but clustered together just on the other side of the water-hole, some sixty yards away, right in sight as he peered between the thick branches of the wattle. First in the Field A Story of New South Wales Along the inner edge were the crumbling remains of little mud and wattle huts that had been occupied by people a long time before. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country This was pushed forward by a great number of men; being covered, as it advanced, with a great shield constructed of wattles and hides. For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem The huts of the poor are formed of upright poles, with branches of trees wattled between, and covered and lined either with cocoa-leaf mats, or clay; the roofs are also thatched. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 This is an Australian sketch: you see those curious-looking trees, they are blue and red gums: there is the wattle, too, with its almond-scented flowers, and the native lilac. Nearly Lost but Dearly Won We built ourselves a hut of wattles, thatched with palm leaves, that kept us dry and comfortable when it rained. The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn Within the wall were a number of low houses, six feet high, built of mud and wattle; and within the houses, spilling over plentifully, were large numbers of children and babies and a few women. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country I raised my head, and by the glare of the lightning, I descried a tiny hut, in the center of a spacious yard, surrounded with wattled hedge. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections Down in the arroyo was the little fenced patch where corn and chile and beans were raised, and behind the house was a round goat corral of wattled brush. The Blood of the Conquerors His ears showed red as a turkey's wattles. Major Vigoureux The village, which had been started only a year or two, was laid out in the characteristic Mormon style with wide streets and regular lots fenced by wattling willows between stakes. A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 We were only there for a week, but into that short time was crammed an immense amount of work both in training, and in cutting wood and making wattle hurdles in Lucheux Forest. The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion In a few minutes he had a cheerful fire, and then he untied his little three-legged pot from where it hung from one of the wattles of the roof. Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories When this full throat shall wattle fold on fold, Like some ripe peach left drying on a wall, Or like a spent accordion, when all Its music has exhaled—will love grow cold? Custer, and Other Poems. You would hardly have recognized in this shrunken figure and wattled face the spruce and dressy old man whom Ma Minick used to spoil so delightfully. Gigolo Over the boardings let there be placed wattles very closely woven of thin twigs as fresh as possible. The Ten Books on Architecture Halstead chose a large speckled gobbler with heavy purple wattles and a long "quitter" that bothered him in picking up his food. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's In a few minutes the hut, being built of wattles and grass, all now as dry as tinder, blazed up. Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories These articles, being generally light and portable, and constructed of delicate parts, can as well be classed with basketry as with wattle work. Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3-46 My dramatic announcement, that where now rises the solid gray mass of old Edinburgh once crouched the wattled houses of the first inhabitants, scarcely caught her attention. The Heather-Moon It seems better, therefore, to spend on walls of burnt brick, and be at expense, than to save with "wattle and daub," and be in danger. The Ten Books on Architecture Houses.—Owing to the fact that houses were built entirely of perishable materials, wood and wattle, we are necessarily dependent almost wholly upon literary evidence for knowledge of this subject. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Their houses are not like those of other parts of Russia—log huts, full, generally, of vermin and cockroaches; but wattled, thatched, and whitewashed cottages, surrounded by gardens, and kept internally in order and cleanliness. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers The processes employed are known by such terms as wattling, interlacing, plaiting, netting, weaving, sewing, and embroidering. Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3-46 They are throwing down hurdles, and wattles, and crossing on them! The Long Night As for "wattle and daub" I could wish that it had never been invented. The Ten Books on Architecture With beam, and wattle, and thatch, floor of mats and window of latticed paper, with walls made tight because well daubed with clay, he built the room apart. Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know The hut was a tiny, wattled shed, and the light we'd seen came through the low, open doorway. Set in Silver The term wattling is applied to such constructions as employ by interlacing, plaiting, etc., somewhat heavy, rigid, or slightly pliable parts, as rods, boughs, canes, and vines. Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3-46 On the other, and within the palisadoes everywhere, were soldiers' huts, built of mud and wattle, thatched with palm leaves, "after the manner of the Indians." On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. The Black Spanish Hen said it made her wattles tingle to hear him find fault with them. Among the Farmyard People The walls consist of poles and saplings from 8 to 10 feet high, firmly planted in the ground, wattled with short branches and twigs with leaves. The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 With fine quarries close at hand, they must build with mud mixed with stones, or plastered on wattles, like the Druses of Mount Lebanon. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America Slender poles set in the shallow water are held in place by wattling or interlacing of pliable parts. Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3-46 He shot up in the air, described a beautiful half-circle, and sailed through the barrier of wattle like a human projectile. The Lost Valley The long, limp red wattles that grew out between their eyes became redder and redder as they swung to and fro under their short, thick bills. Among the Farmyard People But the bird was now tethered behind a log, so that only his head and red wattles could appear. Sergeant York And His People The Indian encampment lay in a hollow, the small wattled huts gathered on both sides of a runlet that oozed from the slope and slipped between a line of stepping stones. The Emigrant Trail Another somewhat usual use of wattling is mentioned by various authors. Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3-46 The lame animal had quite recovered from its fright, and suffered its owner to lead it up the slight rise to the wattles, though there it drew back as if conscious of the drop beneath. The Lost Valley It is plaited of serpents' backs, wattled together like wicker work, whose heads turn inwards, vomiting poison. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The scaled and wattled creature who crouched beside her thigh turned his reptilian head so that golden eyes met the aquamarine ones set slantingly at a faintly provocative angle in her smooth ivory face. The Gifts of Asti The Indian village was deserted and he wandered through its scattered lodges of saplings wattled with the peeled bark of willows. The Emigrant Trail With the barnyard fowl the male has the long spurs and the showy comb and wattles. The Last Harvest The time was early December, and the golden wattle in full bloom. The Lost Valley He led the way through a reptilious swamp and into the fringe of a nispero forest, where they came upon a hut with a roof of corrugated iron and walls of wattled bamboo. Never-Fail Blake I began to notice that the eggs grew smaller each day and I felt starvation again taking me by the wattles. In Macao The information thus secured probably led us to a tiny cottage of mud-daubed wattles. Eating in Two or Three Languages The schoolmaster, Mr. Sego, lives in a house hard by; and the adjacent school, a wattled cottage, echoes to the voices of some thirty to forty scholars. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Across the smoky sea of timber they caught sight of the long line of golden wattle through which they had broken their way the previous evening. The Lost Valley Of oaken twigs and arbutus they wove A wattled bier. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor That unpleasant wattle of armored flesh which necklaced the serpent throat of the devil Dalgard had picked as his target was thin, not the thick roll of fat such as distinguished its two companions. Star Born The lady in her curtain'd bed, The herdsman in his wattled shed, The clansman in the heather'd hall, Sweet sleep be with you, one and all! The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century The outer walls are whitewashed on both sides, and between them and the two wattle squares is a space of 6 to 8 feet, adding to the disproportionate appearance of the interior. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Both sides of it were lined with thick bushes of golden wattle that shut out all view on either hand. The Lost Valley This species may be readily distinguished from the other vultures, by its large size, its white thighs and the red wattles that hang down from the sides of the head like drooping ears. A Bird Calendar for Northern India Beaver came splashing down-stream to plaster up their wattled homes before frost. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark For instance, in the British Isles, the building in earliest times was with wattles: practically walls of basket work. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance It is hedged in, like a true Russian village, but with trees and bushes well trained instead of with a wattled fence. Russian Rambles The fire cleared out all the trees and forced the wattle on in their place. The Lost Valley The inside of the slab walls and chimney we wattled with mud and laths, which we split up, and plastered over with mud and chopped grass. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 The houses are mostly mere wattled wigwams, without chimneys; a patch of garden, rudely hurdled in, with the addition of a high stockaded enclosure for cattle. Round About the Carpathians The door stood wide, and a thin wreath of blue smoke curled upward from the mouth of the wattled chimney. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady Behind, in a wattled inclosure, were the animals and farming implements. Russian Rambles That's why wattle always springs up in profusion after there's been a bush fire. The Lost Valley It was a quaint old homestead of two stories, with black, oaken interlacing beams in its wattled walls and mullioned windows, retaining the small diamond, leaded panes, long ago discarded by more pretentious contemporaries. Up in Ardmuirland They were merely two light poles, with a wattle work formed of giant creepers worked for some six feet in length between them. The Queen's Cup Work was not too hard, and our chief labour was making wattle revetments in the forest—a good task for a hot day—and practising musketry on a home-made rifle range outside the village. The Fifth Leicestershire A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During The War, 1914-1919. They employ themselves, in their tiny wattled lean-tos, in plaiting the low shoes of linden bark, used by both men and women, in making carts, or in some other simple occupation. Russian Rambles He emerged quite unexpectedly into a tangled mass of wattle. The Lost Valley We came to a little village where every house was surrounded by high walls made of wattle. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia It is a specimen of Osman Pacha's handiwork, and is raised considerably above the surrounding fields, the sides of the road being rivetted, as it were, with wattles. Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels If Miss Lucy say yes, when sun jumps up to-morrow you take Wallaroo down by wattle track, gib her horse, come back sit down by me. In the Roaring Fifties |
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