单词 | wattle and daub |
例句 | 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 It makes the stone houses drip and the wattle and daub houses look soggy. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Every house was roofed with thatch, and had walls of wattle and daub. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 So many weeks we spent cutting trees, splitting clapboard, tying thatch, making wattle and daub. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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) 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 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 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 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 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) The Church was very small wattle and daub. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales 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 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 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 During these early years—when the settlers were having such a difficult time staying alive—mud walls, wattle and daub, and coarse marshgrass thatch were used. New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America These trade goods they kept in a storehouse made of wattle and daub. Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement Originally they were built with timber frames, the panels being filled in with wattle and daub, but the storms of many winters have had their effect upon the structure. Vanishing England 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 As for "wattle and daub" I could wish that it had never been invented. The Ten Books on Architecture Huts--Log huts; underground huts; snow-houses; wattle and daub; palisades; straw or reed walls; bark; mats; Malay hitch; tarpaulin; whitewash; roofs, floors, windows. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Let not the Blessed One die in this little wattle and daub town, a town in the midst of the jungle, in this branch township. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow At the first glance, it is not always easy to distinguish between these huts of wattle and daub and those built with crude bricks. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt Here the evangelists possessed their souls in patience and built for worship a little shrine of wattle and daub, which was many generations afterwards found intact when fresh missionaries came to re-evangelise the islanders. Somerset We had a hurdle-maker in our company, so I gave him a brace of light-duty men as apprentices and they built a little hut of wattle and daub. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 21, 1919 The outer and inner walls were all made of that stuff known as wattle and daub—sort of earth-like plaster worked into and around hurdles. Bullets & Billets A rude platform was erected on these piles, and on this a wooden hut constructed with walls of wattle and daub, and thatched with reeds or rushes. English Villages The hut was very small and was made of wattle and daub. A Boy's Ride Calumbo is now a poor place, with a few dilapidated stone houses in a mass of wattle and daub huts, surrounded by large "arimos." Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 The dwellings, of which no walls remain, were evidently built of timber, the crevices between the wood being filled with wattle and daub. English Villages It is built of oak framework, filled in with “wattle and daub.” English Villages |
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