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1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. i. f. 96/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I In some places it [sc. malt] is dryed with woode alone, or strawe alone..but of all the strawe dryed is the most excellent.

1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. ii. 14 So rides he mounted on the market-day Vpon a straw-stu'ft pannell, all the way.

1613 A. Standish New Direct. 21 Cottages and such like Straw-thatched houses.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 773 Thir [sc. the bees'] Straw-built Cittadel. View more context for this quotation

1738 P. Whitehead Manners 4 'Midst the mad Mansions of Moor-fields, I'd be A straw-crown'd Monarch, in mock majesty.

1746 J. Warton Ode to Fancy 30 Where never human art appear'd, Nor ev'n one straw-rooft cott was rear'd.

1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas II. iv. xi. 114 We quitted the hermitage, leaving,..two old straw-bottomed chairs.

1751 T. Gray Elegy v. 6 The swallow twitt'ring from the straw-built shed.

1820 J. Keats Cap & Bells xxix Many as bees about a straw-capp'd hive.

1824 T. Campbell Theodric 501 Till reaching home, terrific omen! there The straw-laid street preluded his dispair.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xli. 445 Had he been inspecting a wooden statue, or a straw-embowelled Guy Faux.

1899 W. D. Howells Ragged Lady 286 The tubes of straw-barreled Virginia cigars.