Ramon had no fortitude; at each bump he could not restrain an exclamation of pain, and the distressful cries attracted the attention of no less a person than Carmen, who was gathering espartograss [33] on the wild coast at no great distance.
Without an instant's hesitation, she caught up a hank of strong esparto rope, which she used to tie up her bundles, and hurried to the water's edge.
Those old things were then young, and what seems to us the first steps of an art, uncertain yet in its tread, seemed to contemporaries the supreme effort of the audacious, who represented the new times.
He could see at Pistoja the pulpit carved by William of Pisa, with the magnificent nude torso of a woman, imitated from the antique.
Its chief exports are esparto grass, sponges, and dye-stuffs.
The decline of the esparto grass industry led to no little unrest among some of the native tribes of northern Africa.
Oran is the shipping-port for grain and esparto grass.
In a second spot farther within, twelve skeletons formed a semicircle round one covered with a tunic of skin, and wearing a necklace of esparto grass, ear-rings of black stone, and ornaments of shell and wild boar tusk.
There were other articles of plaited esparto grass, such as baskets and sandals.
Esparto grass is also used in the making of coarse mats.
It is the chief outlet for the Spanish trade in esparto grass, and for the iron ore and other mineral products of the neighbourhood.
Arzeu, one of the capitals of Abd-el-Kader, and serves to bring down from the high plateaus their rich crops of esparto grass.
Among later residents commemorated is Edward Lloyd, who was the first person to show the value of esparto grass for the manufacture of paper, and thus started an industry which is one of the most important in Algeria.
Esparto grass, rice, olives, the sugar-cane, and tropical fruits and vegetables are largely produced.
Footnote: Esparto is a kind of grass now much used in the manufacture of paper.
The hill-sides, bare of trees, are covered either with the esparto grass or with strongly aromatic herbs and shrubs.
The bells of Santa Teresa that Felipe had heard that night on the blanks of the Esparto rang for a wedding the next day.
The convent toward which he rode was just outside the few scattered huts in the valley of the Rio Esparto that by charity had been invested with the name of Caliente.
Esparto pulp is made by the soda process from a grass obtained in the circum-Mediterranean countries, and is used most extensively in England and somewhat on the Continent, but freights have been prohibitive for American manufacturers.
In this argument Mr. Griffin ignores the fact that esparto grass is a crop which gives a yield of cellulose practically equal to wood, and of equal, if not superior, quality.
The same principles are applied to the treatment of esparto straw or other plants.
There are two grasses, growing in the desert, which are of some value; both are called Esparto or Halfa.
The bed provided was a dirty mat of esparto grass, six feet by two, unrolled and laid on the bare ground: but the mosquitoes and other insect plagues made sleep impossible, and the night was spent in skinning the day's captures.
Straw and esparto celluloses are subjected to the processes of acid hydrolysis, and the neutralised extracts fermented.
He banged a tomtom till he had gathered a crowd from the loose concourse of men who had come long journeys with esparto grass, or gums and ostrich plumes, and much else from the secret region inland.
Beyond them the stable was occupied by a party of swarthy ruffians who had arrived with a cargo of esparto grass.
Esparto is a kind of grass now much used in the manufacture of paper.
Before their gateway, the two aged men and the one old woman sat, as they did from morning till night, plaiting an everlasting rope of esparto grass.
On their backs were sacks containing esparto grass and half-fashioned sandals.
Their feet were bare of stocking, but their shoes were heavy; woven by themselves out of esparto grass, very Oriental in shape with turned-up, pointed toes.
The pulp of espartowhen examined under the microscope is easily recognised, first by the characteristic appearance of the long slender cylindrical-shaped fibres, and secondly by the numerous cells always present.
Paper containing esparto fibre may be tested by means of a weak solution of aniline sulphate.
The cellulose isolated from esparto differs in composition from cotton cellulose:-- Carbon 41.
The production of a white paper pulp from straw is carried out in a manner similar to that used in the case of esparto fibre, viz.
C) Esparto is frequently bleached by the "steeping" process.
This paper is made from esparto entirely, or from a mixture of esparto and wood pulp.
Hence in magazine and book papers containing a fibre which gives a pink coloration with aniline sulphate it is fairly safe to assume that esparto pulp is present.
Esparto grass, which grows freely in the vicinity, is the spartum, or Spanish broom, which gave the town its Roman designation of Carthago Spartaria.
From Cartagena the principal exports are metallic ores, esparto grass, wine, cereals and fruit.
There had been a hope that the change of climate and the peculiarly soothing effect on the nervous system of the air of Esparto might have at least arrested the progress of her disease; but this hope had been of short continuance.
Between the bite of a rattler and that of an esparto viper there is little to choose.
The wood pulp of Norway and the United States is slowly displacing it, and in time esparto will be but little used except for making cordage or gunny cloth.
The esparto grass is delivered to the nearest local market compressed in bales of five or six hundred weight, held together by a coarse netting of esparto weave, and shipped to Europe.
The scorpion is another peril to the esparto picker.
The baracan is quickly shed and the fez, if the picker is rich enough to possess one, is discarded for an esparto hat with rim of mammoth proportions.
But the esparto has a rival so far as its use in making paper is concerned.
Already the French Government is having troubles of its own in providing employment for the esparto pickers, but it is not likely that such a useful plant will be discarded; on the contrary, its use is likely to increase in the future.
When the plant turns brown and has become dry to the root, the esparto picker gets busy.
But the espartopicker has a method of heroic treatment for both the bite of the viper and the sting of the scorpion.
Almost all the animal life of the Sahara is deadly, and the esparto grass picker is constantly facing danger.
Esparto is a natural product of these favored lands, which, after long supplying local wants, has now become an esteemed item in their list of exports.
Nowadays a much wider outlet has been found for esparto grass, and it is grown artificially.
Local industries include the manufacture of coarse cloth, esparto fabrics, oil and flour.
The district is famous for its melons, and also produces wine, olives, wheat and esparto grass.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "esparto" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
