manilla

How To Use manilla In A Sentence

• -- This furnishes the fiber known as manilla hemp, and is cultivated in the Philippine Islands for this product. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
• Several kinds of the plantain tribe are cultivated for this purpose exclusively, the best known among them being the so-called manilla hemp, a plant largely grown in the Philippine Islands. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
• The Akan melted the manillas down and recast them into objects for their own use.
• She sighed, restored the painting to its manilla cover and went to look for a phone. DEATH OF A NYMPH
• ‘Here are your transcripts of the plan,’ he said, handing the them a Manilla folder.
• Luttrell, mate, one Portuguese seacunny, three Manilla and four Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.
• we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide
• Somehow she was not surprised when from under his sweater he drew a grey manilla envelope. DEATH OF A NYMPH
• From the cockpit of one of the allied air force's high-flying secret spy planes, the country stretches out like a postage stamp on a manilla envelope, its mountain ranges reduced to wrinkles.
• When I got there they had the bedroom door tied shut with a 1 manilla rope. True Story: Pugs Eat Owner, Now Up For Adoption