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And when the leaf from the oak-tree falls, And winds blow rough and strong, With the carles of the woodland thorps and halls They dwell, and fear no wrong.

From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by Morris, William

Dorf, village, is especially common in the eastern counties "By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges."

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest

Then the brother pointed aloof with his finger and said: "Lo you! fair lord, how bale speaks to bale all along the headlands of the down-country, and below there in the thorps by the river!"

From The Well at the World's End: a tale by Morris, William

By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred� bridges.

From New National Fourth Reader by Barnes, Charles J.

Thereafter he had returned to Greenford, and gathered his folk, and got him gone, under the guidance of Habundia’s folk, by castles and thorps and towns the nearest way to the edge of Evilshaw. 

From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by Morris, William