From the red-hot eyes of the brute a devil of fury glared at the men trying to thrust a gunny sack over its head.
The gunny sack was pushed and pulled over the eyes.
In his left hand was a gunny sack, in his right a formidable six-shooter.
He levied tribute swiftly, in spite of his badinage, and the gunny sack sagged heavier and heavier.
He leaped to his feet with an oath, snatching up his rifle and a gunny sack, which, among other things, contained their cartridges.
Farwell metaphorically bade this unsatisfactory witness stand aside, and proceeded to investigate the gunny sack, the rope that had tied him, and the rag and stick that had gagged him.
This was the overflow from a gunny sack in which he carried the rest.
The watchman came out of their hands trussed up like a fowl for roasting, securely gagged, with a gunny sack drawn over his head and tied at the waist.
The fiber is much used for making mats, gunny cloth, cordage, hangings, paper, etc.
Defn: Gunny cloth made from the fiber of the Corchorus olitorius, or jute.
Gunny bag, a sack made of gunny, used for coarse commodities.
The butt of the stock was wrapped in a gunny sack and tied up carefully with binder twine, which I learned afterwards was for the purpose of lessening the concussion on his shoulder when firing it.
I have frequently seen, on the top of a wagon loaded with bones, a gunny sack containing the skeleton of a man, that had been picked up by some freighter or some cowman or some settler, and put in the sack to be taken to Dodge City for burial.
While the irons were hot, I cauterized their sore feet, and applying tar and turpentine, wrapped them up in gunny sacks and turned them away from the herd to graze along the creek.
That gunny sack contained a sermon as well as a skeleton.
Some wrapped it up in blankets, others hung it from their saddles, others brought into service a gunny sack or any other article that would suit the purpose of transporting their share to their dwellings.
George was heard to shout, as he floundered around in the midst of the gunny sacks, with the other two scouts straddling him half the time.
The three scouts hastened to climb in at the back of the wagon, and after securing the gunny sacks, as well as the large package belonging to Toby, they once more found seats for themselves.
When the skiff had reached shore and had been drawn up on land, "Cap'n Bill" tossed an empty gunny sack to the sailor.
At this point, they espied, coming down the road that intersected the one they were on, a man, carrying a gunny sack over one shoulder.
We carried the county records around from place to place in gunny sacks.
Three times they caught fire and each time he beat it out with a wet gunny sack.
As they drew nearer they made out wagons; and nearer still-bale upon bale of gunny sacks, and shovels!
But they set to work with a will, filled the gunny sacks with sand, piled them on the wagons; and so by morning Fort Gunnybags, as headquarters was thenceforth called, came into existence.
The whole foot is now incased in a boot or folded gunny sack and the patient turned into a loose, dry box.
Mukoki had hoisted the gunny sack full of fish well up against the roof of the cabin to keep it from chance marauders of the night, and Father Roland stood by while David lowered it and made a choice for Baree's supper.
Thoreau had shouldered the second gunny sack and now led the way into the thicker spruce and balsam behind the cabin.
His own belongings were a steamer trunk and two black morocco bags, while Father Roland's share of the pile consisted mostly of boxes and bulging gunny sacks that must have weighed close to half a ton.
He was coming with his man and his gunny sack, and the gunny sack hung from his shoulder heavily, as a full sack should.
If you have got a gunny sack, I'll show you how to make some money.
The man was swinging forward with long strides; the gunny sack across his shoulder; the mule's bridle over the crook of his arm; his tanned face stolid as leather.
After picking out nearly all the pebbles, I placed about forty pounds' weight of the residue in the gunny bag and humped it down to the spring.
The night was chill, so he folded a gunny bag over his feet to keep them warm.
We were very much out at elbows, the breeches of both soldiers and followers were frequently patched with odd bits of Tibetan woollen cloth, or even in some cases with bits of the gunny of gunny bags.
To clean the water trough when it becomes dirty there is an endless 1/4-inch rope passing through the trough and over the pens; to this are attached rags or gunny sacks, which are drawn through the trough.
To the sides are fastened gunny sacks to hold feed for each ewe.
Having fumbled inside the cart, away limped Harry, and returned lugging the bale of gunny sacks.
He was a very slim, tall young man whose trousers were finished off below the knees with gunny sacking, in order to cover his long legs.
The men passengers slept on the ground, under a canopy of gunny sacking stretched over stakes.
They lugged the dirt on gunny sacking to the sluice, dumped the dirt into the running water, and while Harry stirred it Terry followed down along the sluice to throw out the rocks and clear the riffles or cross cleats.
The gunny sacks are beyond, and the sauerkraut last.
The German turned back the blankets and tick part way and exposed several fat gunny sacks wedged in amidst other stuff, all of which formed a floor.
So they hoisted in the keg, tightly stoppered again (but it was suspiciously light), and Harry trudged ahead once more, to find the gunny sacks.
The gunny sacks had not rolled so far from the back trail.
But Harry hit upon the idea of dumping the dirt upon a piece of gunny sacking and thus carrying several spadesful at a time, to be panned.
Then more dirt was carried in on tarpaulins and in gunny sacks, and every chink and crevice filled with sod and dirt.
There are two or three old gunny sacks around and we can spread those out, put our oilskins on top and sleep finely.
Fort Gunny Bags was as a garrison in time of active war.
All around in front of the block, nearly to the middle of the street, gunny bags filled with sand were piled five feet high, and two pieces of artillery were mounted at the ends, for offensive and defensive purposes.
But the terrors of Fort Gunny Bags did not intimidate Mulligan.
Had the Committee compelled him to go as the Veiled Prophet, with a gunnysack instead of silver veil, there would have been at least the essence of justice in their action.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gunny" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bag; corduroy; cotton; fabric; nylon
