daub-and-wattle

Behind them, narrow streets and lanes are tightly packed with squat, daub-and-wattle houses, some admittedly squalid, set among a sea of church spires.

Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

Behind them, narrow streets and lanes are tightly packed with squat, daub-and-wattle houses, some admittedly squalid, set among a sea of church spires.

Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

Communist-era apartments, drab as prison blockhouses, brooded over medieval daub-and-wattle farm buildings with thatched roofs.

The Black Madonna Davis Bunn 2010

Jecks surveyed the small daub-and-wattle dwellings at the edge of the town, and then the wood-and-brick ones nearer the center of the hamlet.

Darksong Rising Modesitt, L. E. 1999

Chandalen's eyes ignored the bodies that lay everywhere and watched instead the shaded openings and alleyways among the small daub-and-wattle houses that were homes to the farmers and sheepherders who worked the land closer to the city.

Stone of Tears Goodkind, Terry 1995

There was a road between tall black cypresses, leading to the sea, and by it a little wineshop, such as peasants seek at evening when they unyoke their teams, a mulberry tree above the benches, hens scratching, a couple of goats and one young heifer; and a little house of daub-and-wattle, old and tottering, all drowsy in the quiet sun.

The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962

In the afternoon of the day following our arrival there was a heavy rain-storm which drove into the unglazed windows, and here and there came through the roof and walls of our daub-and-wattle house.

VII. With a Mule Train Across Nhambiquara Land 1914

The one-story, daub-and-wattle houses have low eaves and steep sloping roofs of palm-leaves or of split palm-trunks.

II. Up the Paraguay 1914

There was a child in the tavern on the veld; it lay in an old orange-box, half-filled with shavings, covered with a thin, worn blanket, in the daub-and-wattle outhouse, where the Hottentot woman, called the chambermaid, and the Kaffir woman, who was cook, slept together on one filthy pallet.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

Even before the feint sputtered out the rush had been made, the stratagem had developed, and at the bidding of twenty incendiary torches, the daub-and-wattle huts of the Barala town leaped skyward in one roaring conflagration.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897