The broadest span is stretched by means of a hempen fabric, composed of three-inch cables, forming an inverted segment of a circle, the lowest point of which is only seven feet above the torrent.
Leaning back with his hands clasped about his knees, he lazily watched Little John rolling a stout bowstring from long strands of hempen thread, wetting the palms of his hands ever and anon, and rolling the cord upon his thigh.
Such sturdy rogues as thou art are better safe in the prisons or dancing upon nothing, with a hempen collar about the neck, than strolling the highways so freely.
Then they bound him with stout hempen cords so that he could not move either hand or foot, and thus they overcame him.
I, who had never been married, was already a hempen widow; but I was too hopelessly heartbroken for my lover's fate to think of my own paltry hardship.
But Jonathan recovered, and Molly, his wife, was destined a second time to win the conspicuous honour that belongs to a hempen widow.
It is composed of a hempen cord five or six hundred yards in length, to which are attached some thirty smaller cords, each furnished with a barbed hook at its extremity.
The Greenlanders usually replace the hempen cords by thongs of whalebone or narrow bands of shark's skin.
And when any one dies the friends and relations make a great mourning for the deceased, and clothe themselves in hempen garments,[NOTE 12] and follow the corpse playing on a variety of instruments and singing hymns to their idols.
The sons of the dead, wearing hempenclothes as badges of mourning, kneel down," etc.
With a sullen splash the anchor plunged beneath the waves, the stout hempen cable flew through the hawse-pipe, and the Golden Hope brought up head to wind in the sheltered anchorage of Treasure Island.
The hempen cable was rushing through the hawse pipe.
You show more consideration to the feelings of a hempen widow, than there is any need to show.
Then he tied a hempen string to the kite and the rod.
So each gave five from his own string, and Hsue's wife added ten to these, making in all fifty, which she threaded on a hempen fibre and hung around his neck, each pearl being worth over an hundred ounces of silver.
His wife and he slept under a coarse hempen coverlet, and the former was far from sparing of her reproaches.
In Kidderminster carpeting, both warp and weft appear upon the face of the cloth, whereas, in the Brussels style, only the warp is seen, its binding weft being fine hempen or linen threads.
On the death of a parent, the mourning clothes worn are made of coarse hempen cloth, and during the whole period of mourning these must be worn night and day.
The condemned man, attired in his dress of ceremony, and wearing his wings of hempen cloth, sits in the centre of the mats.
The condemned man, dressed in his robes of ceremony and wearing his wings of hempen cloth, sits in the centre.
The servants on guard at the entrance porch should wear their hempen dresses of ceremony.
The principal clothing worn by them is a sort of short petticoat made of strands of pine bark or twisted hempen strings, tied around the loins like a marro.
But, on drawing in the new net, and getting into shallow water, their danger gives them the courage of despair, and furious are their struggles to escape from their hempen prison.
There is a time when patience and forbearance are enough to earn a man a hempen halter, and thinking thus, he faced the storm and renewed his determination.
He had passed hempen ropes round the necks of the mock barbarians, and ever after had them dragged in the wake of his litter, even as if they were prisoners of war.
The men wore their hair long and unkempt, they were naked save for a goatskin tied across the torso with a hempen rope and their shins were encircled with leather bands.
His shattered arm in a hempen sling, Samoa stood at the helm, the muskets reloaded, and planted full before him on the binnacle.
It is very strong, and does not easily get ragged, as would any hempen cord.
Cables of chain are now much more generally used than hempen ones, as they are more to be depended on, take up less room, and are not so liable to be cut or worn by rough rocks at the bottom.
Gray discovered further that contact is not necessary, that a hempen thread or a wire will carry an electric charge from one object to another.
He set up a line of hempen thread six hundred and fifty feet long, and with an electrical machine at one end of the line electrified a boy suspended from the other end.
Cider here replaced wine as a beverage, and wooden sabots are worn instead of the hempensandals of the south.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hempen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
