38 examples of burlaps in sentences

The Boy dropped exhausted on a ragged bit of burlap by the bunks.

One had a scythe and the other a long pole with a wet burlap bag tied on one end.

silk, satin; muslin, burlap.

I MIND SO MUCH AS THE SUSPICION THAT I CAUGHT IT FROM THAT BEASTLY SNOB, BURLAPS, WHO OCCUPIES THE ROOMS OPPOSITE.

A wet coffee-sack of burlaps was spread over the oysters, which, when steamed sufficiently, were opened by a colored man and served gratis to all who cared for them.

The janitor's burlap sack yawns for this morning's mail; last year's gown has long ago met its end at the hands of the ol'-clo'es man or the wash-woman's daughter.

What?" The three boys lying, half covered with empty burlap bags, on the bare earth at the back of the apartment chuckled softly as Jimmie's face brightened at the small picture he drew verbally, of the luxurious Boy Scout clubroom in the City of New York.

What about it, Gulf of Pechili and the Peiho river Ned?" he added, turning to a youth who lay at his side, almost shivering in spite of his shaggy burlap covering.

" Ned took a handbag from under the burlap.

The visitor nodded; glanced sharply about the apartment, where the motorcycles were still lying, and then squatted on one of the burlap bags.

Ned looked at the man, now lolling back on the burlap, and for a moment made no reply.

There were other hillocks and mountains with shadowy valleys betweena mountain of waste paper, partly baled, partly stuffed into bursting bags of burlap, partly loose and scattered over the grimy floor; a hill of rags, all colours fading into sombre shadows....

Hobbling on a broomstick, with, no doubt, the same weird, wizened face as now, an innate sense of the fitness of things must have suggested the kerchief tied around her big head, and the burlaps rag of an apron in front of her linsey-woolsey rag of a gown, and the bit of broken pipe-stem in the corner of her mouth, where the pipe should have been, and where it was in after years.

"Some rightly toned burlap on the walls and ceiling,"he pointed out,"with floor covering and rugs in harmony; there"rolling back the big door as he spoke"your north light; some hangings and screens to hide the stairway to the loft, and the stable door; your entrance over here in the corner, nicely out of the way; and the window looking into the gardenit's great man, great!"

As we mounted the veranda, the loose boards creaked hollowly under our tread; the doorway, from which depended a tattered curtain of coarse burlap, gaped black and empty.

Between book niches above and wainscoting below, the walls were paneled in green burlap with brown rope for molding.

Boxes of groceries came up from Norfolk or down from Richmond by steamer; and also every few days a big cake of ice arrived in a travelling suit of burlap lined with sawdust.

SEE DEMING, HORACE G. DENNIS, MARGARET. Burlap.

DENNIS, MORGAN. Burlap.

Instructions for using and adjusting Singer sewing machine 157-4 for medium burlap bags, automatic oiling system.

SEE DEMING, HORACE G. DENNIS, MARGARET. Burlap.

DENNIS, MORGAN. Burlap.

Instructions for using and adjusting Singer sewing machine 157-4 for medium burlap bags, automatic oiling system.

Across the narrow street with its water-filled gutters, barefoot children in holey sweaters or with burlap tied about their shoulders, slapped their feet as they jigged, or jumped at hop-scotch.

A woman staggered by with a burlap bag of coal on her shoulders.

38 examples of  burlaps  in sentences