How To Use Manilla In A Sentence
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-- 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
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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.
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The Akan melted the manillas down and recast them into objects for their own use.
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She sighed, restored the painting to its manilla cover and went to look for a phone.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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‘Here are your transcripts of the plan,’ he said, handing the them a Manilla folder.
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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.
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we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide
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Somehow she was not surprised when from under his sweater he drew a grey manilla envelope.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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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.
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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
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The latter, which was made of "abaca," the fibre of a banana, vulgarly called "Manilla hemp," although recommended on account of its great elasticity, was not of much use on board ship.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
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An early form of currency in West Africa, brass manillas or ‘bracelets’ like these would have been exchanged for slaves, with a King manilla being worth one slave.
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Manilla ( manilla.com ) replaces that inbox (or shoebox) that's overflowing with bills, frequent flyer updates, magazine subscription renewals and other boring-but-important pieces of information.
Dashboard Your Life
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The copper from these manillas brought to Africa from Europe was often melted down and remade into other metal objects.
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In West Africa, people exchanged manillas as currency from the late 15th to the early 20th century.
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In Benin the value deteriorated so much that in the 18th century no manillas could be sold there.
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Before she got into bed she touched it once, running her fingertips over the smooth manilla package.
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January 5, 2007 at 12: 23 am dell sucks ass. 5 hrs of phone hell to talk to some witch in manilla. cluelss as the tech guy they sent out to replace the keyboard who used no shit a screwdriver to pry off the top and damaged the whole laptop. the monkey in the us was as dumb as the bitch overseas. buy a mac.
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I love Post-It notes of every kind -- the giant poster-sized ones you can put on the wall, the classic yellow square one, the jazzy neon upstarts, the little inch-high ones, the brilliant tab-sized ones you can put on manilla folders.
Jennie Nash: The Making of a Novel: Do You Scribble in the Margins?
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This is not the case certainly with the fine ropes of Manilla hemp, which, though stronger than the best Russian hemp, are almost useless when worn out.
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Why should he not play dummy manilla, which is a silent game.
The New Book of Martyrs
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At that point Coyne came into the room, already in his dinner jacket, and with a thick manilla envelope in his hand.
A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
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We know that manillas were first imported into the delta around 1450 A.D.
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African money bracelets are variously referred to as manillas, bracelets, rings, bangles, etc.
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The former contain objects made locally, while the latter yield chinaware, square-faced gin bottles, copper manillas, and factory-made pipes in addition to locally manufactured goods.
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Today we had the conditions for which Manilla is known, with every pilot getting some airtime and plenty of happy faces tonight.
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John then reached into his coat again and patted a thick manilla envelope that was pressed against his chest.
The Swindler
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The iron manillas were found at a depth of 160 centimeters in association with fragments of an iron chain, while the copper ones were recovered at depths ranging from 120 centimeters up to the surface.
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The demonetization of cowries or manillas provoked strong protest from people whose savings were in these forms, to such a degree, indeed, that the British were eventually forced to offer conversion facilities.
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When enough has been collected in one neighbourhood to load a casco or other province boat, it is despatched to their camarine at Manilla, where after being taken from the original pilone, if it has come from Pampanga, it is mixed up together, and placed in another one, with an opening at the conical part, which is placed over
Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850
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Small manillas would often be amassed and then taken to the blacksmith to be melted and re-formed into a larger size.
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The natives used to bury these bronze manillas and after being in the ground for quite a long time they would quickly burnish up again.
