How To Use Hempen In A Sentence
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I will most certainly doll myself up in my best pleather pants and hempen baja (and if it's wet wintery day, my lush faux-fur-lined galoshes) to celebrate.
Warren Holstein: Che Gueverette: Rodizio Slayer
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In the meanwhile, I had sent two men down to the wreckage of the masts to cut away a couple of the hempen shrouds and bring them to the camp, and they, appearing about this time, I set to work to unlay the shrouds, so that they might get out the fine white yarns which lay beneath the outer covering of tar and blacking.
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
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He must be a bit of an embroiderer, to work fanciful collars of hempen lace about the shrouds; he must be something of a weaver, to weave mats of rope-yarns for lashings to the boats; he must have a touch of millinery, so as to tie graceful bows and knots, such as Matthew Walker's roses, and Turk's heads; he must be a bit of a musician, in order to sing out at the halyards; he must be a sort of jeweler, to set dead-eyes in the standing rigging; he must be a carpenter, to enable him to make a jurymast out of
Redburn. His First Voyage
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I know, I know, slippery slopes and hempen ropes and all that.
Archive 2009-03-01
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_Linsey_, a coarse cloth, was made of linen and wool, or occasionally of cotton and wool; _kersey_, a knit woolen cloth, usually coarse and ribbed, manufactured in England as early as the thirteenth century, was especially for hose; _lockram_ was a sort of a coarse linen or hempen cloth, and _penniston_, a coarse woolen frieze.
Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
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He had a stout length of hempen rope coiled about one shoulder, and two large packs and my satchel were at his feet.
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Pots, pans, and other household goods dangled from hempen and wire leaders like misshapen fruit.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson
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For centuries prior to about 1850, all the ships that sailed the western seas were rigged with hempen rope and sails.
Robbie Gennet: On Role Models and their Bongs
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Ye shall have a hempen caudle, then, and the help of hatchet.
The Second part of King Henry the Sixth
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Our only weapon is a simple sling with a hempen cord.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Where Is the Bird Of Fire? - Thomas Burnett Swann
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Aristocratic criminals were privileged to meet their deaths by the sword rather than the disgraceful hempen rope; gentlemen settled their differences and answered insults at swords' point.
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Unreckonable moments had passed, and he awoke to discover that he lay prone upon a hard, flat surface and that he was restrained once more with thick, hempen ropes.
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The only award they both deserve is a length of hempen rope and tall tree - are there still spikes on the Palace of Westminster where traitors' heads can be displayed?
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Wryly referring to the use of hempen rope for public hangings, Culpeper comments that the Saturnine plant is ‘good for something else than to make halters only’.
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When she felt a hempen rope digging into her right ankle, she accepted that she was indeed caught upside down in a rope snare, swinging from the branch of a tree.
Demon From The Dark
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Plant the crop such as wheaten, corn, potato, horsebean, hempen, cole aptly, a year one ripe.
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Plant the crop such as wheaten, corn, potato, horsebean, hempen, cole aptly, a year one ripe.
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I think, though, of clean sheets, soft and thin smelling, and towels that would fluff if we had the money to not hang them on the hempen line in the relentless sunshine.
Fighting Irish
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But Coutlass solved it in another way by jumping overboard, over his head in deep water, taking our hempen warp with him (I had made one end of it fast to the bitts, meaning to be able to find it in the dark).
The Ivory Trail
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I was seized, hauled aboard, sputtering and gasping and screaming in the rough hempen net, air chasing water from my lungs.
Valentines, part the first
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Just as in the days when Old Ironsides sailed the seas victorious with her hempen shrouds and hempen sails.
Robbie Gennet: On Role Models and their Bongs
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Groves of rigging were about the chains; and there, peering from behind a great stay, like an Indian from behind a hemlock, a Spanish sailor, a marlingspike in his hand, was seen, who made what seemed an imperfect gesture towards the balcony, but immediately as if alarmed by some advancing step along the deck within, vanished into the recesses of the hempen forest, like a poacher.
The Piazza Tales
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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.
In The Time Of Light
