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Examples
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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 2009
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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 Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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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 1982
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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 Tina Gaudoin 2011
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Mattresses consisted of a hessian cover filled with straw.
John McWilliams 2010
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Yeah they print one for the offworld colonies on the inside of some old boxes and hessian bags.
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Theres only 5 stitches in the top of a hessian sack ….
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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 Tina Gaudoin 2011
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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 Dan Pearson 2010
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Take your own tubs to health-food stores where dry goods are still in buckets and hessian sacks.
knitandpurl commented on the word hessian
"The walls are covered in hessian, once blue, now returned to an almost colourless condition except in the places where the furniture and the pictures have protected it from the light."
-- Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos, p 25
June 3, 2008
bilby commented on the word hessian
When on that field his band the Hessians fought,
Briefly he spoke before the fight began:
'Soldiers! Those German gentlemen are bought
For four pounds eight and sevenpence per man,
By England's king; a bargain, as is thought.
Are we worth more? Let's prove it now we can;
For we must beat them, boys, ere set of sun,
Or Mary Stark's a widow.' It was done.
- Fitz-Greene Halleck, 'Connecticut'.
September 16, 2009
sionnach commented on the word hessian
There's nothing to beat the ire of a square formation of second partials when aroused. I personally wouldn't want to tangle with them, not even in determinant form.
September 16, 2009
sionnach commented on the word hessian
But doesn't it seem like this word belongs in the same sentence as fustian.
e.g., "The Hessian troops were all decked out in these nifty fustian outfits, with epaulettes to die for. Think early Dior, with a hint of Balenciaga, mixed with the saucy androgyny of midcareer Mizrahi."
September 16, 2009