How To Use Hessian In A Sentence
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And the idea of the wind chimes, oiled, wrapped and protected in rolls of aromatic hessian sacking, lying up in the dark of the garage loft against some future need, is pleasing enough.
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Did you know that sacking-like scratchy large-weave fabric with vaguely hairy fibres, the stuff they put on display screens and trendy flower arrangements, is called Hessian?
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At one end green plastic sheeting and hessian cloth provided shade from the desert sun.
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To protect shrubs, erect a windbreak by inserting stout canes round the plant and then fixing several layers of hessian or netting to them.
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He tied his neckcloth, combed his fingers through his hair, and pulled on his Hessian boots.
The Year of Living Scandalously
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After the war, a good number of Hessians decided to live in America.
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In the corner to the right of the window, through which the moon pales, is a tailor's dummy in hessian.
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The suit - made from netting and hessian - took Karl, 16, an army cadet, more than 120-hours to complete.
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Patice is given a panga, ploughshare, planer, bag of maize, bag of beans and small packets of tomato, onion, pumpkin and cabbage seed and he puts all of these in a hessian bag.
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He wore hessian tunics and collected replica maces and battleaxes.
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With a polished heel and a hessian platform, these shoes are a structural work of art.
The Higher the Heel, the Harder the Fall
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The grand duke, who spoke English and whose mother was a British princess, showed deep interest in YMCA work and arranged for his adjutant to take them on a tour of Hessian prison camps.
Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
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Fred, 16, has spent hours in one of the outhouses getting the old cider press to work although the result, says Roger, did taste slightly of hessian.
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This one, however, dulcifies with water to yield camphor and a bit of Hessian from the bungcloth.
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According to some accounts, the expression "to fight like Kilkenny cats" dates back to a somewhat ailurophobic custom among Hessian soldiers stationed in Ireland: tying two cats together by the tails and hanging them over a fence or clothesline.
Undefined
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Hessians, but were now turned, in the retreat, upon the British -- and which our gunners defended "heroically" to the last.
The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn
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American army; while the Hessian columns, stretching across a chain of the "highland," attempted to turn Gen. Greene's flank, and storm the advanced redoubt.
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
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Today he was resplendent in a well-tailored riding coat of cobalt superfine, a figured waistcoat of sky blue marcella, white doeskin trousers, and highly polished black Hessians.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
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The children had a choice of fake fur, felt, hessian and netting to transform their bags and then added the finishing touches with buttons and ribbons.
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At 6.30 this morning we moved the rest of the carpet out (some via the window as the old hessian backing was so crispy dry that it wouldn't bend round corners).
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Alternatively, construct the chair's carcass like this but weave the seat from strips of hessian or wicker-type cane.
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Take your own tubs to health-food stores where dry goods are still in buckets and hessian sacks.
Fear of toxic green boxes
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The one major investment was the hessian for the curtains.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Hessians are a simple, kindly people, pleasant, and good tempered.
A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes
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Although Frederika was the wife of a Hessian general, she was adored by both sides and even befriended by Thomas Jefferson.
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It was at this point that a woman in a hessian pinny and a tape measure thrown round her neck walked in holding two hefty period garments.
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Scandatex is made from glass, woven into hessian or herringbone meshes.
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Theres only 5 stitches in the top of a hessian sack ….
Cheeseburger Gothic » Wish I’d taken a photo.
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The result is magical - part modern colonial, part traditional English conservatory, with hessian blinds to keep out the sun in the summer and screens and heaters to keep it warm and cosy in the winter.
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Sheldon's Horse ambuscaded a body of Hessians, only one of whom escaped.
The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five
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In a small tin in the bottom of the pillowcase she finds needles and cotton and between sips of her tea and another pipe, she darns the holes in the hessian bag with those same deliberate tiny stitches.
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Today he was resplendent in a well-tailored riding coat of cobalt superfine, a figured waistcoat of sky blue marcella, white doeskin trousers, and highly polished black Hessians.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
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Warrick Locke was very useful with his black-market connections, enabling her to get hold of all manner of goods that were otherwise unobtainable, having them shipped home in discreet parcels marked as "hessian," "beans," or "oats," or other things that were not in short supply.
Phoenix And Ashes
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To protect shrubs, erect a windbreak by inserting stout canes round the plant and then fixing several layers of hessian or netting to them.
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Garden rubbish is also collected in hessian sacks for a small charge.
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To break the deadlock, they sent an army of 9,000 men, British and German (known as Hessians to the Americans) to besiege Charleston, S.C. A few victories in the South, they hoped, would inflame Southerners loyal to King George III, causing them to rise up and allow London to "Americanize" the war.
Malarial mosquitoes helped defeat British in battle that ended Revolutionary War
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Other accessions included two 19th-century drug mills, an electric belt used in quackery, two medicine chests, three sets of Hessian crucibles used in a pioneer drugstore in Colorado, a drunkometer, mineral ores, and purely produced chemical elements.
History of the Division of Medical Sciences United States National Museum Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 43, 1964
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The German mercenaries, the "Hessians," of popular speech, are supposed to have brought it to this country.
Rural Hours
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Woollen kilts, Hessian full-length skirts, single shoulder organza tops and transparent trousers appear in earthy tones of brown and green.
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Many of these would not grant one dollar for the aid of that commerce on which the revenues of the country and their own real prosperity and wealth depended; but they were willing to suffer long and bleed freely at the old and just, though unrenewable war-cry: "The British and the Hessians.
Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post
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We shuffled inside and sat cross-legged on hessian mats, at least 1,000 people, I reckoned.
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Garden rubbish is also collected in hessian sacks for a small charge.
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You might replace the natural hessian and wooden beads with dyed hessian trimmed with gumnuts or shells.
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We've tried to store them in hessian and this was not very successful as they would green and sprout.
Today's Garden
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Fendi's cork wedges with turquoise, pink and aqua ribbon detailing (£635) are the best examples of the extreme wedge trend, along with Dior's "Eden" python and hessian wedges (£620) and Balenciaga's "Mamoulian" hessian and leather gladiators in navy and taupe (£485).
The Higher the Heel, the Harder the Fall
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Mattresses consisted of a hessian cover filled with straw.
John McWilliams
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Once you've got the idea, its simply a matter of sketching the outline with a felt pen on your piece of hessian, and you're away.
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As Protestants, the Hessian princes shied away from arranging marriages with Catholic rulers.
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Then, interrogated by Perker, he described the tenants of the inn by their boots -- a pair of "Hessians" in 13, two pair of "halves," with six "tops.
Pickwickian Studies
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These would be covered with layers of hessian sacking.
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But Washington was already planning a raid against the German mercenaries called Hessians who were stationed in the town of Trenton.
A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.
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IT'S A WRAPFor those growing exotic plants outside, protect the "hardy" bananas (Musa basjoo) and tree ferns by wrapping their trunks and crowns in straw or bubblewrap and hessian.
Gardening jobs for November
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England intended to crush the colonies and hired German troops, called Hessians, in addition to her own forces.
George Washington
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On the peaty hummocks of Yew Tree Heath in the north-east of the forest, where a few hessian-coloured fallow deer merge into the rust-tipped bracken, the only sounds are the wailing of a redshank and the hum of bees.
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These would be covered with layers of hessian sacking.
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As Julie was not royal, their marriage was considered morganatic, meaning that Julie and their children could not use Alexander's Hessian title.
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Surely one of the cheapest and plainest of fibres otherwise known as gunny sacking, or hessian, made from jute...
Archive 2007-08-01
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Combine any of these - the more the better - in muslin or hessian bags, and hang around the house.
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These are Germans, remember, not what we call Hessians; not the kind that are destined to make Pennsylvania a byword; not the kind that advance in clogs but retreat in seven-league boots.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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The Americans took Hessians prisoner, and treated them very well.
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A male medium contacted the owner in 1985 and disclosed that the dead Hessian soldier had visited him in a dream.
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In the evenings, she hoovered up sadza and milk or cream-laden bonemeal with an expression of unadulterated bliss, and then she’d climb into one of the hessian-padded tractor tires we kept under the carport for the dogs and sink into a coma, her beauty-queen eyelashes curling up from her cheeks.
Rainbow’s End
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Don't store them in plastic bags if you can avoid it, use paper or hessian instead.
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The presence of one of the 'Hessians' at Mrs. Dumars 'house gave it much the same attraction that is attached to a menagerie.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862
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Prior to that, paper was mounted onto stretched hessian and attached to the wall by wooden battens, the traditional way of attaching fabric to walls.
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A small plastic or wooden crate, covered with a sheet of plastic or damp hessian will do until you're ready to plant.
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Terracotta pots can be wrapped in hessian, or bubble wrap.
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Woollen kilts, Hessian full-length skirts, single shoulder organza tops and transparent trousers appear in earthy tones of brown and green.
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I squeeze between a motorbus and a stalled motorized taxi, am almost flattened by a horse-drawn cart laden with fat hessian sacks.
The House at Riverton
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From 1987 to 1991, Fischer served in various capacities in the Hessian State Assembly.
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How gloomy, bricky, hessianlined and poky it was.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sitting room had curtains made from the famous William Morris floral print in brown, and brown hessian wallpaper, which was very fashionable.
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Hessian fly, greenbug, and wheat stem sawfly are the primary insects that attack wheat fields.
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Today he was resplendent in a well-tailored riding coat of cobalt superfine, a figured waistcoat of sky blue marcella, white doeskin trousers, and highly polished black Hessians.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
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The boys scattered to get horses, and the stockmen were piling out of the jackaroo barracks, while Mrs. Smith unlocked one of the storehouses and doled out hessian bags by the dozen.
The Thorn Birds
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German soldiers, commonly called "Hessians," was sent to occupy New
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
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Burnished gold wallpaper, hand-made from silk and hessian, lines the walls on which are hung oil portraits of distinguished grand masters, including one by Raeburn.
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These are generally old fellows with white heads and red faces, addicted to port wine and Hessian boots, who from some cause, real or imaginary — generally the former, the excellent reason being that they are rich, and their relations poor — grow suspicious of everybody, and do the misanthropical in chambers, taking great delight in thinking themselves unhappy, and making everybody they come near, miserable.
Sketches by Boz
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In a small tin in the bottom of the pillowcase she finds needles and cotton and between sips of her tea and another pipe, she darns the holes in the hessian bag with those same deliberate tiny stitches.
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He defeated the British Hessians at Trenton.
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Among the Mercenaries, popularly known as Hessians, employed by England against America during the war of our Revolution, was Gottfried Brückmann.
Margaret
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The one major investment was the hessian for the curtains.
Times, Sunday Times
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Packaging methods such as hessian sacks, wooden boxes and baskets are generally inadequate in protecting dried fish from these causes of damage.
Chapter 5
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A Christmas crib with figures made from hessian was also a great attraction.
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A heavy little cast-iron pan with one of the hessian napkins folded around the handle contained a fistful of gorgeous, buoyant prawns that had been cooked off in arrack to leave a heady aniseed whisper in the flesh.
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If the Hessian musicians feel embarrassed by a single note of Antheil's music, they don't reveal it.
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There a French officer in Hessian boots, white trousers, blue uniform, and much-embroidered scarlet cuffs watched with amusement a slave carrying a goglet, or earthen jar, upon his head like an Egyptian, untouched by the hand, so adding dignity to carriage.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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On his big military map of that region (it is on the western edge of the Argonne) Foch would show his students how the Prussians, Hessians and some Austrian troops; under the Duke of Brunswick, crossed the French frontier on August 19 and came swaggering toward Paris, braggartly announcing their intentions of “celebrating” in Paris in September.
Foch the Man
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And so, pushing his handcart with a hessian sack or two on it, he would set off for Fluke Hall which was by the shore and was a journey of at least three miles.
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Washington's success in this affair of the surprise of the Hessians has been the cause of this unhappy change in our affairs.
The Campaign of Trenton 1776-77
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She'd washed her hair and was drying it on the hessian towel.
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There was a small boat, an improvised currach-type constructed from hessian stretched over a wooden frame and doused with pitch to make it waterproof.
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He designs the earthy-coloured clothing and uses printed hessian, synthetic leather and cottons to create stunning outfits.
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I take it Will, that you have two pairs of Napoleon boots, two pairs of Hessians and another two pairs of button boots?
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Here he was, improvising a remedy with fencing wire, here he was bent double under bulging hessian sacks.
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Protect frost tender young trees with tomato stakes and hessian.
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The germ line of every Hessian fly contains two sets of chromosomes, a germ-line-limited set called the E chromosomes and a set that is found in both the germ line and the soma, the S chromosomes.
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The British paid Hessian troops to help fight in the American Revolution.
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There was a small boat, an improvised currach-type constructed from hessian stretched over a wooden frame and doused with pitch to make it waterproof.
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Yeah they print one for the offworld colonies on the inside of some old boxes and hessian bags.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Sunday morning. Back at my desk.
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Every morning, she sat on the floor surrounded by brinjals, potatoes and greens bulging out of hessian bags.
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In Irving's short story, the Hessian was killed by a cannon ball rather than a bunch of puny colonials.
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Prior to that, paper was mounted onto stretched hessian and attached to the wall by wooden battens, the traditional way of attaching fabric to walls.
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A bold proceeding on the part of the bishop sealed the success of Christianity among the Hessians and Thuringians.
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If you've just spent time emulsioning your space in vogueish shades of cappuccino and hessian and are bewildered by this new passion for all things aquatic, blame him!
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Covering the pot in bubble wrap, horticultural fleece or hessian during severe weather should also help to prevent it from freezing.
