I had a good supply of tackle, and I chose a beautifully straight and tapering bamboo that had been brought down by the river floods.
I set to work at daybreak to make a raft of bamboo and inflated skins.
Without a halt, about a hundred yards of line were taken at the first rush towards the middle of the river; he then stopped, and I waited for about a minute, and then fixed him with a jerk that bent my bamboo like a fly-rod.
The extreme end of the short harpoon is fixed in the point of a bamboo about ten feet long, around which the rope is twisted, while the buoy end is carried in the left hand.
I now put so severe a strain upon him, that my strong bamboo bent nearly double, and the fish presently so far yielded to the pressure, that I could enforce his running in half circles instead of straight away.
She rolled, which made it precarious for things on the bamboo staging, but still a legitimate motion, natural and foreseeable.
I being very lazy, did not go ashore, but watched the pantomime from the bamboo staging.
The native treatment of this pest is very cautiously to open the skin over the head of the worm and secure it between a little cleft bit of bamboo and then gradually wind the rest of the affair out.
This made my home, the bamboo staging, about as reposeful a place as the slope of a writing desk would be if well polished; and the rough and choppy sea gave our vessel the most peculiar set of motions imaginable.
My informants say, "No white man ever live for this place," so I suppose the ducks and bamboo have been imported by some black trader whose natal spot this is.
Obanjo and almost all the crew stayed on shore that night, and I rolled myself up in an Equetta cloth and went sound and happily asleep on the bamboo staging, leaving the canoe pitching slightly.
One stroke of the greater bamboois counted as ten; three with the middle-sized, and five with the smaller.
Here, it is a bamboo tube full of sticks, with numbers burnt into the concealed end, from which the customer draws; at another stall dice are thrown into an earthenware bowl, and so on.
The infliction of the bamboo is open to abuse in various ways.
In the latter case, cut a slip of bamboo and tap the parts; the tattooing will then re-appear.
Straighten the arms, let there be a free passage through the wind-pipe, and let two persons blow incessantly into the ears through a bamboo tube or reed, rubbing the chest all the time with the hand.
The ruling system of bribery has taken away from the bamboo its few remaining terrors for those whose means are sufficient to influence the hand which lays it on.
In China, a coolie's "load" consists of two baskets or bundles slung with ropes to the end of a flat bamboo pole about five feet in length, and thus carried across the shoulder.
In the reaches where the bamboo grew, flights of large vampires (resembling the Pteropus rubricollis of Geoff.
Upon a voyage they carry their water in bamboo joints, and coconut shells, as do the Malays.
They first cling to thebamboo by means of the long claw, or hook attached to the outer edge of the wing, and then gradually settle themselves.
Under his pilotage we ran in and anchored off a low sandy point, on which the traders establish themselves during their stay, by building very neat bamboo houses thatched with the palm leaf.
We landed on a beach, along which a luxuriant grove of coconut trees extended for more than a mile, under the shade of which were sheds neatly constructed of bamboo and thatched with palm leaves, for the reception of their canoes.
It is a piece of bamboo thinned from the inside, through which they blow with their noses.
His bamboo cane, thick as a stout thumb, rose and fell twice smashingly; Jovannic saw the second blow go home upon the hair above the prisoner's forehead.
An unshaded electric-light bulb filled the room with crude light, stripping its poverty and tawdriness naked to the eye its bamboo furniture, its imitation parquet, and the cheap distemper of its walls.
After a walk through flagrant aisles of shade and color, we came upon a wide sweep where the undergrowth had been cleared away; in its place was a cluster of huts made of bamboo and thatch.
The bambooraft which he and Christopher had made lay there.
The Banana,[160] like the Bamboo and most of the palms, is a cosmopolitan plant throughout the tropic world.
Fain would the horses escape their enemies' attacks, but the Indians drive them back into the water with stout canes of bambooand long whips.
The bambooalso proves serviceable in the manufacture of mats and cordage.
It was a very different affair from fishing with five ounces of split bamboo on a Long Island trout-pond.
I remember a pair of good trout that rose together just as we were going through a boiling rapid; and it tried the strength of my split-bamboo rod to bring those fish to the net against the current and the motion of the boat.
On the day that you take up your command, block the frontier passes, destroy the official tallies, [These were tablets ofbamboo or wood, one half of which was issued as a permit or passport by the official in charge of a gate.
It is usual to place a small white triangular flag, fixed to a bamboo staff of ten or twelve feet long, at the place where a tiger has destroyed a man.
As before, she followed the myal-man to his hut--this time entering with more confidence, and seating herself unbidden upon the side of the bamboo bedstead.
A Chinese mat covered the floor, and a rustic table of bamboo cane pieces, with some half-dozen chairs of like manufacture, constituted the principal part of the furniture.
This object was a hut constructed in the most simple fashion--having for its side walls the plate-like buttresses already mentioned, while in front a stockade of bamboo stems completed the inclosure.
She was upon the bamboo bedstead, where the myal-man had placed her.
No doubt it was large enough for whoever occupied it; and the platform of bamboo canes, intended as a bedstead, from its narrowness showed that only one person was accustomed to pass the night under the shelter of its roof.
Nor did he evince a special veneration for the shrine; but, seating himself familiarly on the bamboo bedstead, uttered as he did so a sonorous "Ach!
Kate Vaughan had raised herself from her reclining position, and was sitting upright on the bamboo settee.
As he said this, he drew from under the bamboo bedstead a gourd shell, of nearly egg shape, but of the dimensions of a large melon.
The body of Loftus Vaughan lay upon the bamboo bedstead, just as Chakra had left it.
Presently, as their eyes grew more accustomed to the obscurity, they succeeded in making out the bamboo bedstead in the corner, with something that resembled the figure of a man stretched lengthwise upon it.
One of the young men was harnessed to a sledge, containing saws, hatchets, a bamboo ladder that had formerly done duty as a staircase to the Nest, and everything else requisite for the contemplated project.
We passed the houses of several persons of rank; they were surrounded with stone walls and bamboo hedges.
The only accommodation left for us, was a narrow, close place, covered with a paltry bamboo matting, of a rounded form, one end of which was left open to creep in at.
The walls are formed of mud, enclosed in frames of bamboo and plastered.
It consists of a series of small cymbals of different sizes, suspended horizontally in a bamboo frame, forming a large segment of a circle.
A similar bamboo is placed in the bottom, and terminates in a vessel placed under it to receive the draining off from the body.
The houses rarely extend more than one or two hundred yards from the river, and by far the greater number of them are floating on bamboo rafts secured close to the bank.
The bamboo is the universal antidote against all their failings.
They left off play on our approach, and being joined by several elderly persons, conducted us to an open hut, with an elevated bamboo floor, in which the chief or governor of the place was accustomed to receive visitors.
We found the bamboo growing in abundance on the hills, and in a few places the Nipa fruticans.
The former are made of bamboo stakes in the shallow waters of the lake of Bay where it empties into the Pasig.
The materials employed are not always bamboo and nipa.
The town of San Jose has about thirty bamboo houses, some of which are filled in with clay or mortar, and plastered over, both inside and out.
The landing is on a bamboo bridge, which has been erected over an extensive mud-flat, that is exposed at low water, and prevents any nearer approach of boats.
Since the people of this race have been somewhat more civilized than those of others, they smoke the tobacco in small clay, wood, or horn pipes, which they make themselves, adding a small bamboo joint for a mouthpiece.
The bamboo rocker was Jean's wedding present from Judith Mackenzie; Jean had told Mrs. Lane that the broad blue ribbon bow tied upon it was exactly the color of Judith's eyes.
I am ready to give the Bensalem girls a lecture upon what women outside of Bensalem are doing," said the lady in the bamboo rocker with her knitting.
There are other courses of fish; one of four strawberries, two slices of orange, some mint jelly cut in cubes, and sweetened bamboo slices in the middle of the list.
They are planted between rows of stones which are heated artificially, I did not quite understand how, the vines being kept from touching the stones by low bamboo trellises.
Other times they are planted on the flat and surrounded by bamboo fences of fancy design and geometrical pattern, usually with a square form to include each division.
I forgot to mention the most interesting street thing I've seen, a bird catcher with a long limed pole like a bamboo fishing rod, a basket with a valve door to put them in and some other utensils.
All day long the sun pours through the bamboo shades and the hot air brings in that gray dust, and everything you touch, including your own skin, is gritty and has a queer dry feeling that makes you think you ought to run for water.
Fastening the end of the rope to one of the bamboo rafters, he descended the ladder and picked up his bundle; then climbed up again, got halfway out of the hole, and listened intently.
As soon as it is getting dark you must carry up two of the bamboo poles, taking care that no one observes you do so.
Then he ran down the steps, took two bamboo poles about ten feet in length, and two short pieces of the same wood no thicker than his finger and, hurrying up the steps with them, laid them down against the side of the room.
On a bamboo pallet, with a dark rug thrown over it, was another figure.
However, I noticed in one of the Parsees' shops a number of light bamboo bedsteads; which are the coolest and best in a climate like this.
A hut was at once handed over to them, and Harry laid on a bamboo pallet.
There was a table for writing on, two light bamboo chairs, and an Indian lounging chair.
In the corner was a small bamboo table, on which was a large brass basin; while a great earthenware jar for water stood beside it, and a piece of Indian matting covered the floor.
The prison was surrounded by a strong and high bamboo fence, and in the space inclosed by this were eight or ten dwellings of the usual wooden construction.
On reaching the top, he laid the roll on the bamboo spikes; and was able to raise himself on to it and sit there, while he pulled up the rope and dropped it on the inside.
Upon the cottage piano was a blue Canton ginger-jar filled with branches of feathery bamboo that spread its lace-like foliage far and wide over the ceiling and walls, quite covering the large spot where the roof had leaked.
He put a bamboo hat on it and stood it up in one comer of the garden.
He took the bambooladder that formed the steps to the house, and placed it so that it would reach the Shrine in the Sky, whither the Moglung had gone.
Leaving these behind him on the ninth day, he travelled on to the Mountains of Bamboo (Pabungan Kawayanan), covered with bamboo whose leaves were all sharp steel.
So she crept across the floor, and took the bag from off the end of the bamboo slat on which it hung.
He took no baggage except two long bamboo buckets full of tuba, which he carried one over each shoulder.
Juan cut a mountain bamboo and from its hollow joints gave Maria a refreshing drink.
Into the folds of her hemp skirt she slipped the precious box with the gold necklace inside, and very quietly ran down the bamboo ladder at the house-door.
Then the Malaki sprang up the bamboo ladder and looked in at the door, but he saw no one in the house.
The man answered, "I am looking for bamboo to put the monkey in.
Up the bamboorounds he climbed, until he reached the sky and found his sister.
Again came the voice, "You will find a bamboo to put me in; by and by you shall eat me.
The upper ends of the bamboo he sharpened, and let them project through the roof; but the sharp points were concealed by the leaves.
He is here with a big bamboo hat, but he could not catch me if he tried.
Native houses of the poorer classes are very slightly built, of four or six uprights, with bamboo floors and thatched roof and sides, the whole tied together with rattan.
Darkness had almost descended when he rode into the village and stopped before a small grass-covered bamboo dwelling where the cook-preacher lived.
A group gathered round Mackay, and in their eagerness began hammering each other with bamboo poles.
Row above row, they went up the mountainside, like a great glass stairs, each row reflecting the green hills and the bamboo groves above.
It consisted of some half-dozen houses or huts made of bamboo or wickerwork, and the place seemed literally swarming with women and children and noisy yelping dogs.
These were ugly looking things made of bamboo sticks.
Then they hired a burdenbearer to carry their food, and Mackay cut a bamboo pole, fully twenty feet long, and on it tied the British flag.
The mountain with its groves of bamboo lay reflected in the little mirrors of the rice-fields.
The Tonga Islanders split the prepuce on the dorsum with a piece of bamboo or of shell.
Among the Battos the same object is reached by smallbamboo sticks, between which the prepuce is fastened.
The Fiji Islanders use both a rattan knife and a sharp splinter of bamboo in performing circumcision and in cutting the umbilical cord at child-birth.
The front side and ends are made by driving posts or sticks of bamboo into the ground and secured by fastening a strong one across the top.
The body was then taken to a small uninhabited hut and placed upon a bench, or table, made by driving sticks of bamboo into the ground, across the top of which others are fastened, and interlaid, thus forming a table about two feet high.
These are also fastened by lashing bamboo across them, being entirely impervious to the rain.
Certain among them have besides, a number of bamboo tubes, some on the principal mouthpiece, some arranged around it.
There are two distinct types of whistles--those consisting of bamboo tubes placed side by side, and a type placed on the principle of tubes attached to a gourd body or wind chest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bamboo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cane; cereal; corn; fog; grain; grass; oats; reed; rush; wheat
