| 单词 | hempen |
| 例句 | When she rode close, she saw dead men hanging from the battlements, slumped at the ends of long ropes with hempen nooses tight around their necks, their faces swollen and black. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They brought forth the King-Beyond-the-Wall with his hands bound by hempen rope and a noose around his neck. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z On the Shy Maid, he made his bed atop the roof of the cabin, with a coil of hempen rope for a pillow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He had fashioned the wooden hilt himself, and wound hempen twine around it to make a grip. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A cracked wooden begging bowl and belt of hempen rope completed her garb. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z All about the yard, dead men hung half-frozen at the end of hempen ropes, swollen faces white with hoarfrost. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A robe of undyed wool belted with a hempen rope marked him far one of the begging brothers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Holly’s cloak was fastened with a silver clasp, and Frenya had a girdle of hempen rope wound about her middle from her hips to breasts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Flowers weren’t available at sea and so the koumbaros, a guy named Pelos serving as best man, switched the king’s hempen crown to the queen’s head, the queen’s to the king’s, and back again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Fire in the hole booty hempen halter tackle chantey swab furl. Prod-5806 Test 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Right glad would I be to see Falmouth once more other than with a hempen rope round my neck, or with gyves and manacles to prevent my full enjoyment of my native place. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z These swabs were, however, always termed “hempen tangles”—so much does science dignify every object it touches! The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z A nondescript being—faded red cap on head, bare feet thrust into hempen sandals—summoned by the landlord, appeared from the outer darkness and, shouldering our baggage, passed out into the night. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z We might be dangling from the Palace windows in an even line, suspended by elegant hempen ropes; or our heads might be decorating spear heads and our bodies God knows where. The Making of a Saint 2012-03-16T02:00:25.243Z With him—he was a sailor and his similes were nautical—it was a hempen cable which held him to her like a ship to a bower anchor. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z With a rush and a roar the stout hempen cable ran through the hawsepipe, the vessel snubbed, swung round, and the next moment the cable parted as if made of pack thread. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z It will be observed that there is a wide groove around the bucket, which is filled with hempen rope or gasket. An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design 2012-03-06T03:00:25.777Z The Box hedges were also in constant use to hold the bleaching webs of homespun and woven flaxen and hempen stuff, which were often exposed for weeks in the dew and sunlight. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z With our chains we found it safe; but the bottom, being rocky, would probably do much injury to hempen cables. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z On the evening in question it seemed that she had gone quite too far, and that even the hempen cable would not stand the strain which tautened it. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z Our best bower anchor, with its great twenty-inch hempen cable, was carried out towards the centre of the harbour, the tail of the cable remaining on board. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z There's a hempen neck-cloth to fit my pipes in Queen Street," he said, plaintively, "and I desire it not, having no mind for flummery. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z The chevaux-de-frize at one end of the bridge was blazing; but beyond it on the bridge the Austrian engineer and his men were scattering combustible material, and with hempen torches touching the new-pitched timbers. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z Oh! my sort don't die; we are tough as hempen cloth. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z Chain cables had not been invented, and hempen ones, as thick as the mainmast, held the ship at her anchors. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z The speech of the Lords Justices shows the extent of this engagement, and promises the encouragement of England “to the linen and hempen manufactures of Ireland.” The Commercial Restraints of Ireland 2012-02-13T03:00:20.483Z At the end of the hempen string was tied a key, and in a convenient shed was a Leyden jar in which to collect some of the electricity from the clouds. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z It is hempen ropes the poor gentleman travels in, and never was a man so eager to fit them to his own neck.' Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z Take care that the geese cannot get at the label, for they will eat it, and also devour the hempen fastenings if within their reach. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z At first he dismissed Mazzini as “deserving a hempen collar with Nana Sahib and the King of Delhi,” an opinion which the experience of later years compelled him to reverse. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z But bating the baths and wash-houses, hempen girdles, and hairy garments, we quarrel still with the animus of Diogenes and his train. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z He insulated his wire as well as he could with hempen strands well covered with pitch, tar, and india-rubber. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z Gray even succeeded in transmitting a charge of electricity through a hempen thread over 700 feet long, suspended on silken loops. Hawkins Electrical Guide, Number One Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A Progressive Course of Study for Engineers, Electricians, Students and Those Desiring to acquire a Working Knowledge of Electricity and its Applications 2011-12-24T03:07:54.823Z A few paces in the rear came the bugler, a standard-bearer, and five young men walking abreast, carrying either in their arms or suspended from a hempen cord the fowls collected from the farmhouses. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z Riding closer he saw that two poles were set close to the wall of the gully, and from one of them dangled a short, frayed hempen rope. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z With a sullen splash the anchor plunged beneath the waves, the stout hempen cable flew through the hawse-pipe, and the Golden Hope brought up head to wind in the sheltered anchorage of Treasure Island. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z Now, Baker, let's understand each other, you and I. I flatter myself that I've saved more than one poor chap from a hempen collar, and I'd like to save you. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z The boys, and several men who had taken hold of the hempen cable, braced themselves. Fenn Masterson's Discovery or, The Darewell Chums on a Cruise 2011-11-07T02:00:19.467Z It manufactures buttons, chemicals, starch, leather, tobacco, silk thread, paper, and hempen goods, as well as beer and wine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z His fingers encountered nothing but the hempen strands. Ned Wilding's Disappearance or, The Darewell Chums in the City 2011-10-11T02:01:05.260Z The hempen cable was rushing through the hawse pipe. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z He set up a line of hempen thread six hundred and fifty feet long, and with an electrical machine at one end of the line electrified a boy suspended from the other end. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z In an incredibly short space of time, communication was established between the two battleships; but, just as the Tremendous gathered way, a shell severed the stout hempen rope. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z You shall sooner meet your deservings," said Rob, "on the foal of the acorn, with a hempen string, than find grace with the Collector's child. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z These were covered with a strong, pure-white hempen cover corded down strongly at the sides and ends. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z Giovanni, who had sprung up from somewhere, was making a harness-like contrivance of hempen cords, iron hooks and rods, and wooden pulleys. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z Gray discovered further that contact is not necessary, that a hempen thread or a wire will carry an electric charge from one object to another. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z Fastened to the top of the flagpole of the club's boathouse was the end of a piece of hempen twine. St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886 an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-07-18T02:00:22.977Z The simplest way of roasting a fowl or joint of meat was to suspend it in front of the fire by a hempen string. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z When I did this, a Kalmuck captive brought a hempen shirt to me, and Sukyman commanded me fiercely to carry water to the cattle. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z Where the hempen string terminated a key was fastened. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical 2011-06-08T02:00:20.907Z So she worked on secretly and steadily, playing her part well, and biding her time till the long hempen rope was made, the sharp file procured unsuspected, and a boat ready to receive the fugitives. Spinning-Wheel Stories 2011-05-28T02:00:23.707Z It required only the hempen halter which each wore around his neck to complete the picture of misery. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z He was not hard to identify for he bore on his back, by means of a harness of strong hempen webbing, two oblong trunks of thin metal, probably tin. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z It, or the hempen strand it controlled, had primarily served as a link between the sequestered dwellers, and the flesh-pots and material comforts of the lower world. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z As her crew stretched out the new yellow hempen running-gear, they smudged everything with the pigment. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z Another order, and the anchor with its hempen cable fell with a sudden plunge into the water; the ship snubbed at the tautened rope, swung round and brought up, riding easily to wind and tide. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z The latter, three or four fathoms high, is made of hempen cord, as thick as a goose-quill, each mesh being two spans wide. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland 2011-05-10T02:01:00.460Z And as he spoke there was a splash of water at the ship's bow, followed by the familiar rumbling noise of her hempen cable as it tore through the hawse-pipe. The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR 2011-04-25T02:00:10.333Z The hempen strand, however, proved sound; held its human freight; but another danger pressed near. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z Long Jack and Uncle Salters slipped the windlass-brakes into their sockets, and began to heave up the anchor, the windlass jarring as the wet hempen cable strained on the barrel. Captains Courageous 2011-04-22T02:00:10.677Z Riding easily at her hempen cable, on the first of the ebb tide, lay the staunch vessel that was to carry them across the Channel. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z It was formerly noted for the manufacture of 'Suffolk hempen cloth', worsted yarn, and knit hosiery. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Their nets and fishing-lines are made of willow-bark and nettles; those made of the latter are finer and smoother than if made with hempen thread. Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II 2011-03-24T02:00:13.247Z He also foretold his death in a year's time from a certain herb, and so it fell out, for he was strangled with a hempen cord by order of the Caliph. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z The peasant took the front seat, untied his hempen reins, and gave the horses a cut with the whip. More Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:01:05.113Z Here is a stout hempen cord with nearly all its strands severed as if with a razor, and the other torn asunder. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z "I wish they 'd go out with hempen ones, then," muttered Repton. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z He wore no robe of state, but merely a cotton shirt over one of linen, cotton pantolones, or wide trousers, and hempen sandals, called alpargatas, on his feet. Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa 2011-01-02T03:00:18.200Z The stout hempen rope was next thrown to the ground, after which the terrified sharpshooters waited for the succeeding order. Where Duty Called or, In Honor Bound 2011-01-01T03:00:22.753Z As soon as it showed itself, they dived upon it, and seizing it with their hands, fastened it with large hempen stoppers, which were quickly attached to five-inch ropes. The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph 2010-12-29T03:00:29.577Z You were doomed to end like that, with a hempen tie around your neck. 813 2010-12-28T03:00:13.553Z It is true that Saint Francis was ceint by a hempen girdle, and, moreover, was clad in a habit of gris. A Cursory History of Swearing By the aid of the light which streamed through the open door he could discern dimly the rows of blackened rafters overhead, from which broken bits of hempen strings hung desolately. The Man from Jericho Life or death hung on the strength of a rusted piece of chain and a half-rotten hempen rope. The School by the Sea Besides, three kinds of herbs always grow with war; these are, sharp rule, fifty forbidden articles, and severe judgment with speedy sentence, which fits many a neck with a hempen collar. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. At the same time the principle of using hard metal wire instead of flexible hempen thread is essentially vicious, and should only be used as a temporary expedient for publications of little value. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" The crushed mass is then placed in hempen cloths and pressed in a screw or hydraulic press. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Most notable was the neckcloth in this unhappy reign, which went by the name of Judge Jeffreys’ hempen cravat. English Costume In old times, I still remember them, a commoner did not dare to drive out in a coach and four, or, if he did, the horses had to be put in hempen traces. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Cotton thread lace is also made here, and no inconsiderable quantity of hempen cloth. A Concise History and Directory of the City of Norwich for 1811 The margin of safety of steel wire rope is much larger than is that of hempen rope, a fact of importance both in towing in a rough sea and in hauling. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Three hempen ropes were tied to its rim, and were then cunningly interwound on a single-drum windlass of wood, which could be turned by two men even when the basket was loaded. The Thing in the Attic CRETONNE, originally a strong, white fabric with a hempen warp and linen weft. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Manna wore around her waist, beneath her clothes, a small hempen cord that a nun had given her as a perpetual reminder of her promise to assume in public the hempen girdle. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine The hempen tent must crush the tower of stone. Sónnica Galvanized steel wire with a hempen core was first used by Agassiz on the “Blake.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" In Belgium it was tried in a pit 940 metres deep, where it has been replaced by flat hempen ropes, and is now restricted to shallower workings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" Alexander had a double thorax of linen; and Iphicrates ordered his soldiers to lay aside their heavy metal cuirass, and go to battle in hempen armour. The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries Behind the second grated door stood two nuns in black garments with hempen cords about their waists. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Only the signature written grim At the end of the message brought to him— A hempen rope and a twisted limb. The Garden of Dreams He states that his wire weighed one pound per fathom, against two pounds per fathom of hempen rope, and had a breaking strain nearly twice that of hempen rope, which bore two tons. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" The light open-front workshops of the makers of hempen camel harness were hung with the twisted rope and tassel adornments of variegated colors with which the Bedouin delights to array his ship of the desert. A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise The master and mate were extremely anxious, however, to heave in the hempen cable, and see the state of the clinch or iron ring of the chain-cable. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) By using two marline-spikes, the hempen heart is removed and the ends of the wire strands forced into the place it occupied, making a very neat job when finished. Knots, Bends, Splices With tables of strengths of ropes, etc. and wire rigging He walked slowly across the open space, looking neat and slender; he had been for a good while carrying his books under his arm instead of in a hempen satchel. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 Our Martins, considered as birds, were often reminded that their proper food was “hempen seed,” which at length choked them. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors And round and round an oaken beam A hempen cord they flung, And like a mighty pendulum All solemnly he swung. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 The string was hemp with the exception of the part held in the hand, which was silk; at the end of the hempen string a common key was suspended. Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series Where the hempen string terminated, a key was fastened. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 His face was as white as paper, he wore a mourning turban on his head, his body was wrapped in hempen garments, and he wore straw sandals on his feet. The Chinese Fairy Book Ah, never have I adjusted a hempen cravat about the throat of any aspirant for such an honor with less pain than I shall officiate at the last toilet of Black Donald!' Hidden Hand One quiver of the hempen cord— One struggle and one bound— With stiffened limb and leaded eye, The pig was on the ground. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 Soon he observed the fibres of the hempen string to rise and separate themselves, as was the case of the hair on the head, when any one was placed on an insulating stool. Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series The energy now applied to the hempen strand sent the ferry many feet from the shore out into the river, where the current was much swifter than usual, owing to the heavy rainfalls. The Strollers The part of the cord held in his hand was of silk, and between this and the wet hempen cord a key was inserted and connected with a Leyden jar. Benjamin Franklin The hempen flame they fling from hand; they cast the dart afar Of wingèd steel, and Neptune's lea reddens with death anew. The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse Amid the hail of hempen missiles the white flag was hoisted, and the enemy surrendered. The Tale of Timber Town I may be accused of spying about, and I am not over anxious for a hempen necklace, nor lodgings in Walnut Street. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia They had pushed up the outer silk covering of the rope—covering put on for ornamental purposes—and Tonzo was pouring something from a bottle on the hempen strands. Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer Then they bound him hand and foot with hempen ropes, but, to their amazement, he burst them as if they had been threads of wool. Tales From Scottish Ballads The clothes-line was a new hempen one, and strong as could be. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 His bare chest, covered with gray hair, could be seen under his hempen shirt. The Brothers Karamazov I knew we had wick—I remembered the long hempen string which Ossaroo has got, and I knew that that would serve admirably for the purpose. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Every individual blade of grass seemed to be invested with the toughness of a hempen cable, and to trail directly across their path for the express purpose of retarding their progress and tripping them up. The Voyage of the Aurora The soil was clay, and there was sure to be a great destruction of the hempen shoes. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 It is on record that he himself actually joined in the manual labour of dragging stones and timbers into position, and that, clad in hempen garments, he led the labourers' chorus of "Kiyari." A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era She wandered about, summer and winter alike, barefooted, wearing nothing but a hempen smock. The Brothers Karamazov It passed a cart drawn by two horses whose hempen harness told of the back country. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere The rustic beauties with their snowy rebocillos, their hanging braids, and white hempen sandals, attracted the immaculate and lordly Febrers with an irresistible force. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan If I could only hang that restaurant man—and the others like him—in a rope of his own hempen griddle cakes! Free Air By way of giving point to his ordinances inculcating frugality, he himself made a habit of wearing cotton garments in winter and hempen in summer—a custom habitually practised by the lower orders only. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era By hand-labor also to plough the sea; both for food, and in commerce, and in war: not with floating kettles there neither, but with hempen bridle, and the winds of heaven in harness. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing Faith, I think Craven has the right of it: the hempen noose is yawning for such fools as you.” A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 The elder rustic wore white hempen sandals, above which hung the broad bell of a pair of blue trousers. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan "Your cabin-boy," I answered; "bound to fetch and carry: hempen wages, and not much better treated than a dog." The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... He kept those ministrations against such time as the Cart was ready, and the Tree decked with its hempen garland. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... Her hempen running rigging had been consumed; sails, gaffs, and booms lay smoldering on her decks; above the hull only her masts and bowsprit were outlined in fire against the blackness behind. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good At the termination of the hempen cord dangled the key, and the silk end was wound around the philosopher's hand. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin In a moment the entire open space before the musicians was covered with heavy skirts, beneath whose rigid and multiple folds moved the small feet in white hempen sandals or yellow shoes. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Also, "look out for a bender," or "strike out for a bend," applied to coiling the hempen cables. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. A hempen string, whipped in the middle with colored silk, to mark the place for your arrow nock to be put, in shooting, will make a very good string. Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls The fresh young pine-wood boards were a welcome prize to their sharp teeth, and so too the strong hempen ropes. The King of Root Valley and his curious daughter The air seemed electrified, but no electricity appeared in the hempen string. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin Beneath her skirt peeped forth feet shod in hempen sandals, with coarse white stockings. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan The space in a ship where hempen cables were coiled. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. And he held out an end of the thin, strong hempen cord which ran through a pulley at the top of the pole, and to which the flag was always attached. The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War A long and mighty pull on the hammock almost landed Sary out in the grass, but she clung like a vise to the hempen ropes. Polly and Eleanor The hempen string began to bristle like the hair of one electrified. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin Having nothing else to do, Jaime started for the pueblo, walking along the paths in the red earth which stained his white hempen sandals. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan The old well-known term to draw the bight of a hempen cable towards the opposite side, in order to make room for the bight being twined to coil it in the tier. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. She was so nervous and out of spirits that she positively had not courage to open a dirty wooden box, tied round with a bit of hempen cord, and fastened with a few rusty nails. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 They brought him to the WatergateB Hard bound with hempen span, As though they held a lion there, And not a fenceless man. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 There stood a large, rudely-shaped tent, constructed out of the covers of the despoiled packages—pieces of coarse hempen canvas and sack cloth, woven from the fibres of the maguey. The Tiger Hunter His feet, shod in hempen sandals, crunched on the gravel at the edge of the wash from the surf. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan A method by which the operation of coiling is facilitated; it alludes to hempen cables, which are now seldom used. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. There could be no harm to the diver in this, Joe reasoned, since the men up above were putting a much greater strain on the hempen cable. Joe Strong, the Boy Fish or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank These consisted of long thongs of reindeer-skin, and also hempen cords of the manufacture of civilized men, for noosing the reins, and of bowls, kits, &c., to receive the milk. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 We were much interested in going into the rope manufactories, where ropes and hempen cables are spun in rooms twelve hundred feet long. A Yacht Voyage Round England Fishing accustomed him to wearing hempen sandals for climbing rocks and for walking along the beach. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan To a sheet anchor a stout hempen cable is generally bent, as lightening the strain at the bow, and being more elastic. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Some spare hempen cables were got up from below, and made fast to them; when hove overboard they checked her way. The Three Midshipmen The men wore their hair long and unkempt, they were naked save for a goatskin tied across the torso with a hempen rope and their shins were encircled with leather bands. "Unto Caesar" He would have challenged any man who counted him, Father Johannes, in his hempen garment studded with thorns, among the rulers of men! The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus With his white hempen sandals, his collar minus a cravat, and his hat thrust back, he entered the caf�s and clubs, being received with profuse manifestations of friendship. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan A hempen cable used when riding in deep water, where the weight of a chain cable would oppress a ship. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Sometimes the cut work done in this way is framed, as it were, with an edging either in plain or gilt leather, hempen or silken cord, like the leadings of a stained-glass window.” Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them “Good diamond king, With hempen string This haughty knave destroy, Then may your queen, With mind serene, Your royal love enjoy.” Harry's Ladder to Learning Stranger than all, round his neck was tied a hempen rope. The Red Romance Book The rumbling of the great hempen cable out through the hawse-pipe served as a signal to some dozen or more of poor scurvy-stricken wretches who lay gasping in their hammocks in the stifling forecastle. Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess Those for a hempen cable are fitted as a ring-stopper, only a larger rope. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. For his first twenty cases Mr. Wood used strong hempen thread for the stitches; of late, however, he has proved the greater advantage of strong wire. A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Fifty or sixty yards of strong hempen line were attached to the plate. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The hempen tangles were used, and brought up a very abundant yield of large, beautiful animal forms, a large number of asterids, Astrophyton, Antedon, &c. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II He remembered her vividly, the grave, gray, comprehending eyes, the long braids of hair which lay like thick new hempen rope upon the white counterpane. The Man from the Bitter Roots A rope 6 or 8 fathoms long, with a hook and thimble spliced at one end, and whipped at the other: it is used in coiling hempen cables in the tiers, dragging chain, &c. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. With this we may compare the metaphorical use of home-spun— "What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here, So near the cradle of the fairy queen?" The Romance of Words (4th ed.) We had brought with us some strong, light, hempen rope for the purpose of lowering our swags down steep and difficult places. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer The hempen tangles and the trawl-net were put out and yielded a very rich harvest. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Mary's white dress rustled as crisply as did her mother's petticoat and her hair, crimped and ironed until it was fuzzy as a bushman's, drifted out behind her, a hempen whirlwind. Carl and the Cotton Gin Two small ropes for lashing the end of a hempen cable to its own part, in order to secure the clinch by which it is fastened to the anchor-ring. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Over them all was stretched a strong, white, hempen cover, well corded down at the sides and ends. Home Life in Colonial Days All set to the work; they fix rolling wheels under its feet, and tie hempen bands on its neck. The Aeneid of Virgil Their spare time was constantly occupied in the manufacture of hempen twine and sacking, which was much superior to that obtainable in towns. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II Then the dismounted bummer would coolly remove his hempen bridle, shoulder his drum, and seek for another steed. Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 The old word for hempen canvas; but many races, even the Chinese, make sails entirely of cane. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The hempen fetters really hurt him a little, but it was partly because of the chair. Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way From "canabis," the Latin name for hemp or flax, we have the word "canvas" to mean any texture woven of hempen thread. Textiles and Clothing Yet it seemed scarcely possible that iron anchor and hempen cable could prevent a ship forced by those furious billows from driving onward to the shore. The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham We shall want it at least;” and as he spoke the words he pulled out of the chest over which he had been stooping a coil of hempen rope. Will of the Mill There is something stronger than hempen rope to hold him, George, evidently. Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah Then paddles, and bundles of hempen garments were carried down, with other objects of value in the savage eye. The Adventures of Don Lavington Nolens Volens Before daybreak the huge surf-boats had been drawn down from their moorings, and with long hempen hawsers attached to the ships and steamers. The Rifle Rangers A plunge was heard, and the hempen cable flew quickly out. The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham “Yes, sahib, I have,” briskly replied the shikaree, at the same time drawing a roll of hempen twist out of the breast of his cotton shirt, and holding it out towards the young hunter. The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" We have festooned it full oft with a big hook and hempen line. The Singing Mouse Stories O did he come alone from Jem, And not from our father the Pope, I’d bring him into Copmanshurst, With the noose of a hempen rope! The Bon Gaultier Ballads I think of hempen fields, where I Once played with insects floating by, And joyed alike in sun and rain, Unconscious of approaching pain. Custer, and Other Poems. About a quart of the ounce balls were hastily wrapped in the canvas, and lashed up with the hempen twine. Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' Anita leaped into action, to kneel at Fairchild's side a moment later with a hempen strand, as he tied the man's hands behind his back. The Cross-Cut Caius brought the horses to the trough in pairs, each with a hempen halter. The Mermaid A Love Tale The law’s grim finisher to its boughs ascended, And fixed the hempen bandages, while he Bowed to the throng, then bade the cart go free. The Bon Gaultier Ballads The stout fellows stood forward with their madaké; those thin slips of rattan, two feet in length, wrapped into a bundle an inch in thickness with stout hempen cord. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 Iron cables are also handier and cleaner, an offensive odour being exhaled from dirty hempen cables, when unbent and stowed inboard. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" On came the hempen breastworks, while Price's artillery continued an effective fire. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Slip the hempen bridle over the Horse's head and lead him quietly out of the stable. The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales Sure enough, there on the road was the truck with its great coil of hempen rope and its big pulleys, accompanied by two men in overalls. Tom Slade at Temple Camp The rope turned and twisted like a snake, a loop of it wound around the Elephant's neck, and a moment later he felt himself being lifted off the barn floor in the hempen coils. The Story of a Stuffed Elephant The length of a hempen cable is 101 fathoms, and a cable's length, as a standard of measurement, usually placed on charts, is assumed to be 100 fathoms or 600 ft. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Because of these hempen leaves it was formerly called "Holy Rope," being thus named after the rope with which Jesus was bound. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure He took the golden bridle instead of the hempen one and put it over the head of the Golden Horse. The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales When the huge hempen cables were ready to be conveyed to the frigate, the workmen hoisted them upon their shoulders and in procession marched to the music of fife and drum. The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 Forty hempen inches Borrowed from a friend; Rafter at the upper, Neck at lower, end. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 In vain he disciplined himself with his hempen girdle until the blood came; the vision would not depart. Life of St. Francis of Assisi With lance and shield and hempen coat3 they start off on the raid. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir When you reach the Golden Horse you will see hanging beside him a golden bridle and a common bridle made of hempen rope. The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales All set to work, and to the feet below 262 Fix wheels, and hempen ropes around the neck they throw. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor At last the hempen rope was almost worn out. Fifty Famous Stories Retold Hemp and hempen cords and ropes came from the Greeks. Hebrew Life and Times His chief riches were obtained by dark and murderous transactions; and had he a score of necks, with hempen necklaces well adjusted, I doubt whether he could pay the full forfeiture to the law. Secret Band of Brothers A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United States. Janko reached over to take the hempen bridle and then he paused. The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales I have seen the hempen cord by which he shall hang. The Black Douglas I could not tell his order, though from his well-worn cassock girded at the waist with a frayed bit of hempen cord he might have been a Little Brother of the Poor. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady In fact on washing these slightly with a little rum they had every appearance of hempen rope. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 Why did he cast its inseverable hempen cords about his throat and limbs? Atlantis "The like of him gets to Heaven with a hempen cord!" I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross They also applied their hempen cords thoroughly, and this course of treatment soon reduced Rabelais to a very weak condition. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business With a new strength born of hope he flung up his feet, shooting them through the hempen rungs; and there he stayed for a while—it seemed almost an eternity. Dan Merrithew A hempen cloth, so loosely woven as to leave interstices between the threads, in little squares. A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. The former of these are made of the bark of a pine-tree, beat into a hempen state. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 You show more consideration to the feelings of a hempen widow, than there is any need to show. Jack Sheppard A Romance It slopes upward into the center of the room, and from its upper end a hempen cord is suspended. Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 Is there never a tear to be shed for me, As I swing by a hempen string? Judith of the Plains Behold also, O son of Gandhari, my mace decked with gold and twined with hempen chords. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Accordingly he dignified his theme by speaking of a net as the "sportsman's hempen toils," and of a gun as the "—fell tube Whose iron entrails hide the sulphurous blast Satanic engine!" A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Herodotus speaks of the hempen robes of the Thracians as equal to linen in fineness. The Spinners They plat a long rope, to which they fasten, like bells, a number of hempen baskets, with an open entrance to admit the animal, but which does not allow of its egress. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. Crib the stockbroker meets Horns a fellow-labourer in the same hempen walk of life. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 18, 1841 There was a hempen carpet, inch deep with mud and dust, on the floor. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 The schooner's kedge to a rocky ledge, By a hempen cable tied, With silent stealth, for the raiders' health, Was lowered overside. The Last West and Paolo's Virginia A broad, braided, hempen band, usually worked in a tasteful pattern, is also passed round both gunwales; and secured to the ship's bulwarks, firmly lashes the craft to its place. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I "In tough Welsh parsley, which in our vulgar tongue, is Strong hempen altars."—Beaumont and Fletcher, Elder Brother, Act. Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850 Not long afterwards he was dragged through Boston streets by a hempen rope about his body, and was assigned to a prison cell, as affording the most available protection from the mob. The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights He had built a scaffold, fastened his ladder to the broach-post, put a hempen ring on it, attached his tackle to the ring and hung his swinging-seat on the pulley. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig They brought him to the Watergate, Hard bound with hempen span, As though they held a lion there, And not a fenceless man. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 His shattered arm in a hempen sling, Samoa stood at the helm, the muskets reloaded, and planted full before him on the binnacle. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I The servants on guard at the entrance porch should wear their hempen dresses of ceremony. Tales of Old Japan What hempen homespuns have we swaggering here, so near the cradle of the Fairy Queen? A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare (1763) Nicolas asked, as he passed over a small coil of stout hempen cord. The Young Engineers in Mexico Or, Fighting the Mine Swindlers His cowl was closely drawn, and a black robe, of the coarsest serge, was secured round his waist by a hempen cord. The Vale of Cedars For lately I have dreamed of high And hempen dissolution! Shapes of Clay The condemned man, attired in his dress of ceremony, and wearing his wings of hempen cloth, sits in the centre of the mats. Tales of Old Japan The total imports of woollen, cotton, and hempen goods together, in the same year, were to the amount of L.155,000. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 Its motion is transmitted by means of ten hempen cables, 3.5 cm. in diameter. Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 I've spent my whole life for a bit of hempen cord. Master Skylark And how long would a hempen cable hold the ship in a place like this, where every time the vessel lifts to a sea, the clench is chafing on a rock? The Crater On the death of a parent, the mourning clothes worn are made of coarse hempen cloth, and during the whole period of mourning these must be worn night and day. Tales of Old Japan And presently a halter got, Made of the best strong hempen teer, And ere a cat could lick his ear, Had tied him up with as much art As Dun himself could do for's heart. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook At last, when he was about to give up the experiment, Franklin saw the loose fibres of his hempen string begin to move. Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans There is the tree where seven fellows have married the hempen maid, and now swing to and fro. Grimm's Fairy Stories A quiet land is this—a land where the slow-moving Basque, with his flat biretta-cap, his red sash and his hempen sandals, tills his scanty farm or drives his lean flock to their hill-side pastures. The White Company The condemned man, dressed in his robes of ceremony and wearing his wings of hempen cloth, sits in the centre. Tales of Old Japan When I took out my knife to cut their hempen bonds, the heads of the family seemed to divine my friendly intent. My Garden Acquaintance More than one person who has since tried to draw electricity from the clouds has been killed by the lightning that has flashed down the hempen kite string. Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans It is the best hempen cord," said Villiers, "just as it used to be made for the old trade, the man told me. The Great God Pan And in that castle also was a despised and hunted outlaw, with a price upon his head, for whose neck the hempen noose has been yawning these many years. The Outlaw of Torn Even Billy had to admit it, and when the prosecuting attorney demanded the death penalty the prisoner had an uncanny sensation as of the tightening of a hempen rope about his neck. The Mucker Here he stumbled over what he had been seeking, a great coil of one-inch hempen cable, from which he measured off roughly what he would require, if his calculations were correct, and something over. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf I am sure they were arms, for there was written in Roman letters round about the hempen collar: Given by the worthy valiant captain, Master Fraud, the ostler. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 I suppose the rocks and this sawing together, parted our hempen cable, and away we went towards the shore, broadside-to. Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast Should I stick my head into London town, it would doubtless stay there, held by a hempen necklace. The Outlaw of Torn The kite was sent up in season for the coming storm to catch, and, with intense anxiety, Franklin held the string, which was hempen, except the part in the hand, which was silk. From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin "I for one have no need of a hempen collar." The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages He had already girded his sides with a hempen rope, but this was only half of his vow; now it was necessary to fulfill the other half which was more difficult. The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy As the gale increased, however, it was thought necessary to let go the sheet-anchor, which had a hempen cable bent to it. Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast He had the good taste to make one of them substitute black crape for the ordinary hempen rope he was about to tie one of them to the frame-work with. Roughing It, Part 7. Another moment, and he beheld the fibers of the hempen cord rise as the hair of a person does on the insulated stool. From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin The bed was not soft, and the hempen sheets were as coarse as canvas, but these trifles did not trouble me. Two Summers in Guyenne He began to bellow: "Who will sell me any … slippers … pants … hempen sandals … old shoes … secondhand clothes … syringes … urinals and even chemises." The Quest Unfortunately, most of the chain was out before we let go the sheet-anchor, and there was no possibility of getting out a scope of the hempen cable. Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast Here the word probably means the thread from which hempen ropes are made. Filipino Popular Tales Eagerly he applied his knuckles to the key, attached to the extremity of the hempen cord, and drew a spark therefrom. From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin Coarse hempen sheets and a coloured coverlet completed the bedding. Two Summers in Guyenne Oh! they will cost me an estate in hempen collars if fair weather hold. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 We asked them why they treated these worthy persons with such a choking hempen salad. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 It is in this case a hempen rope of perhaps two inches in diameter through its greater length, but tapering off at either end like a snake. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series After a stay of about two weeks, the Irrawaddy had her heavy Indian spars replaced with Canadian pine, and her kayar shrouds with hempen ones. Redburn. His First Voyage "I dare say she has deserved them both as well as ever thief deserved a hempen collar." The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day Uncle Chirgwin trusted Providence and his hempen ropes and clothesline; but it was a childish hope, and, gazing open-mouthed upon that swelling, hurtling cataract of roaring water, none shared it. Lying Prophets There was a hempen string, and on this, next his hand, he had tied a bit of ribbon and an ordinary iron key. Steam, Steel and Electricity Only the signature, written grim At the end of the message brought to him— A hempen rope and a twisted limb. Poems At other times, they set me to picking oakum, like a convict, which hempen business disagreeably obtruded thoughts of halters and the gallows; or whittling belaying-pins, like a Down-Easter. Redburn. His First Voyage The friars of the Franciscan order, perhaps of all others, wear a hempen cord for a girdle. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies They brought him to the Watergate, Hard bound with hempen span, As though they held a lion there, And not a 'fenceless man. Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems Smith was feathering a nest for himself--feathering it with steel and stone and a possible coil of hempen rope. The Centralia Conspiracy The circus newspaper mail was ready tagged in a hempen sack. Andy the Acrobat A swab is something like what a birch-broom would be if its twigs were made of long, coarse, hempen yarns. Discourses Biological and Geological Essays Man's justice had to take its course, And tie the fatal hempen knot, For vengeance cried from out the ground, Where lay the blood of murder'd Scott. Canada and Other Poems In the bonny cells of Bedlam, Ere I was ane-and-twenty, I had hempen bracelets strong, And merry whips, ding-dong, And prayer and fasting plenty. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 From his robe he drew a number of bags of coarse hempen cloth, and a broad white napkin. The Prince of India — Volume 01 The Rossberg I will undertake to scale, I have a sweetheart in the garrison, Whom with some tender words I could persuade To lower me at night a hempen ladder. Wilhelm Tell "Stop a moment till I bind you," Luc said, taking a hempen cord from about his waist. Annette, the Metis Spy He was thickset, and burned to the color of a ripe olive; his long, drooping mustaches, tobacco-stained at the centre, were bleached at the extremities to a hempen hue. Going Some Many of these yellow-brown roots, tough as hempen rope, descended quite to the bottom of the arroyo, for the greasewood perseveres astonishingly in its search for moisture. The New Boy at Hilltop Manufactures of serge and of hempen cloth have been introduced. The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation A few great families - cotton, linen, hempen, woollen, silk, mohair, alpaca - into what an infinite variety of genera and species do not these great families subdivide themselves? The Note-Books of Samuel Butler That was the first squeamishness the Pathan had shown of any kind, but men of his race would rather be tortured to death than hanged in a merciful hempen noose. King of the Khyber Rifles But moreover, in front of all was borne a great staff with the cloth of a banner wrapped round about it, and tied up with a hempen yarn that it might not be seen. The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale The ‘Granville,’ having still on board her cargo of coals for Algeciras, lay low in the water with both her anchors out and the tide singing round her old-fashioned hempen hawsers. In Kedar's Tents This case, however, was not reported because nobody cared by so much as a hempen rope for the life or death of Little Tobrah. Life's Handicap The poor man, so laid, was bound around the arms and legs with hempen cords, each of them encircling the limb eleven times. Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal We even had hempen cables instead of chain ones! Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville A man who was hanged is said to have died of a hempen fever; and, in Dorsetshire, to have been stabbed with a Bridport dagger; Bridport being a place famous for manufacturing hemp into cords. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue She took her hands from the yellow meal and dusted them on a hempen towel, and was ready to go forth beside him. The Maid of the Whispering Hills I noticed then for the first time that a short hempen rope hung suspended from the largest branch, with a noose in the end. The Ivory Trail It was skillfully done, and the prongs caught on some part of the barge, low enough down so that the hempen strands would not burn. The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem Major Parr is of the same opinion; Clinton sees the importance of this, having had the sense to learn of Amherst how to stop the Seneca demons with a stout hempen rope. The Hidden Children There the beggar lay, already insensible or at the last gasp, on coarse thatch, on the ground, covered by an old hempen sack. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Whether immense sums are not drawn yearly into the Northern countries, for supplying the British navy with hempen manufactures? Querist They grabbed the slipping hempen strands, and thus checked the falling craft until Koku could get a better grip. Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone or the Picture That Saved a Fortune All destinies are for ever commingling; and the adventure is rare in whose web the hempen thread blends not with the golden. Wisdom and Destiny It has a fibrous, woolly structure, a little like the loose end of a much-worn hempen rope. Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science Sailcloth was scarce; hempen ropes were rarities in Khartoum, where the wretched cordage was usually obtained from the leaves of the date-palm. Ismailia And whether there should not be great premiums for encouraging our hempen trade? Querist The network that supported the car was made of very strong hempen cord, and the two valves were the object of the most minute and careful attention, as the rudder of a ship would be. Five Weeks in a Balloon The nobleness of this thought stirred Dan greatly; his eyes wandered back to the silken rope; but now it seemed to him an emblem of voluntary suffering and self-sacrifice, like a devotee's hempen girdle. April Hopes My tools are but common ones, Simple shepherds all - My tools are no sight to see: A little hempen string, and a post whereon to swing, Are implements enough for me! Wessex Poems and Other Verses While he was speaking Hans had stripped off his peddler's leathern jacket, and there, around his body, was wrapped coil after coil of stout hempen rope tied in knots at short distances. Otto of the Silver Hand There was one thread of silk woven into the coarse hempen nature of Cadet. The Golden Dog There is the lovely "hempen widow," quite as interesting and romantic as the famous Mrs. Sheppard, who has at the lamented demise of her husband adopted the very same consolation. George Cruikshank One really must behold the grimace of an honest man above the hempen collar now and then; that renders the thing honorable. Notre-Dame De Paris This young man was dressed in a threadbare blue cloth coat lined with fox fur, that had once been smart, and dirty hempen convict trousers, over which were pulled his thin, dirty, trodden-down boots. War and Peace Here, to begin with are three shirts, hempen but with a fashionable front.... Crime and Punishment The floor of this prison lay hidden beneath thick, hempen matting that deadened the sound of footsteps. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Thus by late afternoon I had coiled and stowed safely away more good hempen rope and cordage than I could ever want. Black Bartlemy's Treasure The thief hath not stolen the beautiful hempen rope. Notre-Dame De Paris Seizing the hempen strands, he ground his teeth deeply and with scientific skill, into their fraying recesses. Further Adventures of Lad Long Jack and Uncle Salters slipped the windlass brakes into their sockets, and began to heave up the anchor; the windlass jarring as the wet hempen cable strained on the barrel. Captains Courageous If I spend the last shilling of my fortune and the last ship of the Jamaica fleet, I'll have that rascal in a hempen necktie before I rest. Captain Blood She was making sacks out of coarse hempen stuff. The Witch and other stories That bit of paper would have been enough, Dunn thought, to place a harsh hempen noose about the soft white throat he watched where the little pulse still fluttered up and down. The Bittermeads Mystery Then, while the collie was still toiling over the hempen mouthfuls, the bear seemed to recover his own wonted cleverness; and to realize his whereabouts. Further Adventures of Lad Thither all had gone, save three men alone: then Middleton gripped his man, Halyburton felled the sergeant lad, Dunbar seized the gunner, Swan; Roy bound their hands, in hempen bands, and the Cavaliers were free. Ban and Arriere Ban By the mass, that thou shalt; a good pair of hempen sheets, were never lain in: Come. Sir John Oldcastle AN exceedingly lean little peasant, in a striped hempen shirt and patched drawers, stands facing the investigating magistrate. The Witch and other stories But Jonathan recovered, and Molly, his wife, was destined a second time to win the conspicuous honour that belongs to a hempen widow. A Book of Scoundrels They may tug in line at your hempen twine, They may flourish with axe and saw; But your taproot drinks of the Sacred Springs In the living rock of Law. Poems The tightness of a hempen rope Their bodies got; but laundry soap Not handsomer can rub the skin For token of the washed within. Poems — Volume 3 In that building, long and low, With its windows all a-row, Like the port-holes of a hulk, Human spiders spin and spin, Backward down their threads so thin Dropping, each a hempen bulk. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow And there, in the patio, Ali had hung a swing of hempen rope, suspended from a bar thrown from parapet to parapet, and on this Naomi would sport with her little ones. The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable I, who had never been married, was already a hempen widow; but I was too hopelessly heartbroken for my lover's fate to think of my own paltry hardship. A Book of Scoundrels The chairs are broken-down invalids; the wretched little hempen mats slip away from under your feet without slipping away for good; and finally, the foot-warmers are miserable wrecks, hingeless, charred, broken away about the holes. Father Goriot A ring of gold and a milk-white doveAre goodly gifts for thee,And a hempen rope for your own loveTo hang upon a tree. Ballad of Reading Gaol And as one sees most fearful thingsIn the crystal of a dream,We saw the greasy hempen ropeHooked to the blackened beam,And heard the prayer the hangman’s snareStrangled into a scream. Ballad of Reading Gaol The loftiest place is that seat of graceFor which all worldlings try:But who would stand in hempen bandUpon a scaffold high,And through a murderer’s collar takeHis last look at the sky? Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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