Then he passes the bast under a toothed knife, which is easy to work, and goes down to the village with his bundle of discoloured coarse fibre with a certain amount of dried sap on it to increase the weight.
The bast is drawn through between the knife and the block, the operator twisting the fibre, at each pull, around a stick of wood or his arm, whilst the parenchymatous pulp remains on the other side of the knife.
The stems are tested in these examinations to see if the fibrous layer, or bast layer, will strip off clean from the wood or stem.
I hope, however, that Pastor Bast received his donation.
Pastor Bastwas the only Methodist clergyman in Copenhagen.
PASHT: Pasht and Bast appear to be two forms of the same goddess.
This mulberry and most of the figs provided bast which was made into cloth.
Pi-Bast with an enormous retinue, but from the upper kingdom a transport of gold has come, of which more than one of you will win a good portion.
While Mefres was trying to extort a confession from Sarah, the most active agents of the Pi-Bast police, and with them every Phoenician under the leadership of Hiram, were hunting the Greek Lykon and the priestess Kama.
The devotees gave these cats to dissectors in Pi-Bast to be stuffed or embalmed, and bore them home later on as valued relics.
Proclaim to-morrow that Herhor and Mefres are traitors, and we will show the nomarchs and priests the proofs three days later when Hiram returns from Pi-Bast to us.
Still more, I have never heard that there exists in Pi-Bast a man who could counterfeit our viceroy,--may he live through eternity!
Pi-Bast seemed from edge to edge to be one hall filled with music, singing, laughter, and the sound of goblets.
And all this is going on in Pi-Bast here under our eyes, and I do not know of it?
Some, even, in spite of darkness, saw fleeing people, or Libyan bands marching toward Pi-Bast in long black columns.
In the morning he was on the south of Pi-Bast and verified the list of provisions; an hour later he was north of the city, and discovered that a hundred and fifty men were lacking in the Ieb regiment.
Moreover, Hiram had not returned from Pi-Bast yet with letters proving the treason of Mefres and Herhor.
At night the man asked his host, "Farmer, where shall I put mybast shoes?
He was handsomely dressed, but he had coarse bast shoes on his feet.
First of all, the wild beasts attacked the man of the bast shoes and devoured him, and then Reynard had to resign his life.
As soon as all were in their first sleep, the owner of the bast shoes rose from his bed, slipped into the hen-house, tore the shoes to pieces, and scattered the coarse plaits among the fowls.
The corporal always scolds me because he says that my knapsack is as hard and angular as a dry bast shoe.
The women also use a little strip of bast that goes down the groin and passes between the thighs.
I never longed so for the country, Russian country, with bast shoes and peasants, as when I was spending a winter with my mother in Nice.
Bast fibre and raffia fibre are to be preferred for light subjects of this character, as they can be split to any degree of fineness.
The cat-headed goddess Bast presided over the fortunes of the nome and city, where she was identified with Sekhet, the lion-headed goddess of Memphis.
As a hieroglyphic text at Philae puts it, Sekhet was cruel and Bast was kindly.
The exclusive worship of Bast at Bubastis, however, dated from the time of Osorkon II.
One is the king of Sesennu or Ashmunen, the other is Pef-dod-Bast of Hininsu or Ahnas.
But the visitor to Tel-Bast still looks down upon its site from the rubbish-mounds of the ruined habitations, and can still trace the beds of the canals which were carried round it.
With this they wile away whole hours, lolling in ragged, bast hammocks slung in their dark, smoky huts.
The squaws carried their babies in aturas, or large baskets, slung on their backs, and secured with a broad belt of bastover their foreheads.
Originally it meant pliant, and had reference to the useful bast from which cordage and other flexible things were made.
It is largely used by the makers of musical instruments; and, as every one knows, it is from the inner bark of the Lime that those useful bast mats, which are imported from Russia in such large numbers, are made.
There is an important point of difference between seed fibres and bast fibres, that is in the degree of purity.
Jute, flax, China grass and hemp are common fibres which are derived from the bast of the plants.
This portion is known as the bast, and hence these fibres are known as "bast fibres".
Skin-linn Fork is where the bast was peeled from young lindens.
Beds generally are bought, nowadays, at the stores, but some are home-made, with bedcords of bast rope.
And here is a woman in bast shoes and linen skirt, just like mother at home---- Are they really going to shoot at them?
King Nidud gave to his daughter Bodvild the ring which had been taken from the bast in Volund's house; but he himself bore the sword that had belonged to Volund.
On the bastthey saw the rings all drawn, seven hundred, which the warrior owned.
He then began his strength to prove, bast to bind, make of it loads; then faggots carried home, the livelong day.
The fibro-vascular bundles consist mainly of bast and wood fibers and vessels.
The bast fibers are as large as 1 mm long and 25 ยต broad, with thick walls and very small lumina.
The cells occurring in the cleft of the berry are straight, narrow, and long, becoming as long as 1 mm, and resemble bast fibers somewhat.
And as I moved to the door, I would hear the tip-tap of his bast slippers restoring him, up the stairs, to his dream of boots.
And it was longer than usual, too, before a face peered down, and the tip-tap of the bast slippers began.
Leonard Bast we want no chatter about blue grottoes, however perfect.
Flax belongs to a class called the bast fibres, a name given to certain fibres obtained from the inner bark of different plants.
He had always wanted green bast and green sticks, but had used the other kind because it was the only kind that the man round the corner sold.
He noticed, moreover, that things were tied up now with greenbast to green sticks.
From Bubastis to Memphis, from Bast to Ptah," he said.
From the bastfibers of the stem of this herb linen cloth is made.
Among the most important are Manila hemp, which comes from the leaf-stalks of a plant of the banana family and true hemp, which is the bast or woody fiber of a plant cultivated in most warm parts of the earth.
In a plant, soluble proteins pass down the sieve tubes in the bast and then may be stored in the bast or medullary rays of the wood in an insoluble form, or they may pass into the fruit or seeds of a plant, and be stored there.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bast" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cotton; fiber; nylon; thread; wool
