Ye shall have a hempen caudle, then, and the help of hatchet. From Wordnik.com. [The Second part of King Henry the Sixth] Reference
The clothes-line was a new hempen one, and strong as could be. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
Manufactures of serge and of hempen cloth have been introduced. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation] Reference
There was a hempen carpet, inch deep with mud and dust, on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference
Oh! they will cost me an estate in hempen collars if fair weather hold. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
“Stand by to sway me up!” cried Ahab, advancing to the hempen basket. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
Who can wonder that men swing themselves off from beams in hempen lassos?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
Here the word probably means the thread from which hempen ropes are made. From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
Its motion is transmitted by means of ten hempen cables, 3.5 cm. in diameter. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884] Reference
They grabbed the slipping hempen strands, and thus checked the falling craft until. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone or the Picture That Saved a Fortune] Reference
The soil was clay, and there was sure to be a great destruction of the hempen shoes. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
We asked them why they treated these worthy persons with such a choking hempen salad. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Behold also, O son of Gandhari, my mace decked with gold and twined with hempen chords. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
“I dare say she has deserved them both as well as ever thief deserved a hempen collar.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth] Reference
She wandered about, summer and winter alike, barefooted, wearing nothing but a hempen smock. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
Lead him by the hempen halter, or else the horse will begin to neigh, and will waken the guards. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Fairy Book] Reference
A hempen cloth, so loosely woven as to leave interstices between the threads, in little squares. From Wordnik.com. [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.] Reference
Then the dismounted bummer would coolly remove his hempen bridle, shoulder his drum, and seek for another steed. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
The dead woman had been so poor that she was wearing an undyed hempen-cloth taloos, not even a coarse silk weave. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
He caught at the hempen cable, swarmed up it, and, the gallivat having but little freeboard, soon reached the bulwark. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
The man, who wore a plain hempen cloak and hood, and carried a thin wooden walking stick, fell in beside him. From Wordnik.com. [The Saturn Game]
The poor man, so laid, was bound around the arms and legs with hempen cords, each of them encircling the limb eleven times. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
Queequeg was my own inseparable twin brother; nor could I any way get rid of the dangerous liabilities which the hempen bond entailed. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Strong, the Boy Fish or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank] Reference
Property of electric Virtue, which is that the approach of a Tube of electrified Glass communicates to a hempen or silken Cord an electric. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
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