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Definition of the day : « hemp »
- noun plant
- Old Noll had a noose of hemp ready for horse-stealers, were they for King or for Parliament.
- Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- As to hemp, it grows so strong as to be much fitter for making cables than cloth.
- Extract from : « The History of Louisiana » by Le Page Du Pratz
- It wouldn't be very hard; I could plait you one myself if I only had some hemp.'
- Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
- Or sow with hemp all the borders where cabbages are planted, so as to enclose them, and not one of these vermin will approach.
- Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
- She will remember now that a skein of hemp thread is not the thing to line her nest with.
- Extract from : « Tales From Two Hemispheres » by Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen
- Sheets and table-cloths were of flax or hemp; dishes were of brass or pewter.
- Extract from : « William Shakespeare » by Samuel Levy Bensusan
- In practising knot-tying a short piece of hemp rope may be used.
- Extract from : « Boy Scouts Handbook » by Boy Scouts of America
- Hemp plantations and a large number of cattle were destroyed.
- Extract from : « The Philippine Islands » by John Foreman
- I grind at mill Their malt up still; I dress their hemp, I spin their tow.
- Extract from : « Welsh Folk-Lore » by Elias Owen
- Yet how will it dilate on the Odyssean smell of hemp and tar!
- Extract from : « Journeys to Bagdad » by Charles S. Brooks