White, thatch-roofed cottages sparkled in shafts of sunlight.

A dozen thatch-roofed cottages clustered, amid their pastures, on the bank of a winding and placid stream.

The settlers cut back the forest to build tiny thatch-roofed cottages and fishing boats.

In the early years, "thatch-roofed cottages" of the planters huddled along the bank of the river.

They saw the first house an hour shy of evenfall, a snug little thatch-roofed cottage surrounded by fields of wheat.

Lights flickered on in thatch-roofed cottages as the farmers made ready to continue their harvest of the wheat fields outside the walls.

At Higher Bockhampton outside Dorchester is the thatch-roofed cottage where the writer was born (open by appointment only; 0305 62366).

The thatch-roofed cottages weren't much different from the ones in the village where he'd lived till the impressers dragged him into King Swernmel's army.

The Thullish plain was dotted with villages, random collections of thatch-roofed cottages and dirt streets.

Guests stay in thatch-roofed, A-frame cottages, which face either the beach or the island's tropical rainforest interior.