They carry mats of sugar on their heads (70 pounds) all day lading ships, for half a rupee, and work at gardening all day for less.
It was a building of artless construction, consisting of little but a roof supported by wooden posts, roughly hewn from date trees: round the tamped earthen floor ran a raised bench of unbaked brick, forming a diwan for mats and sleeping-rugs.
To carry out this pose he seldom appeared from behind the thick mats which veiled the front of the room he occupied.
No doubt the King of Benin, sitting on the state stool in front of his palace of mats and wattle, was greatly flattered by the portrait.
No fossils are more common in the limestones of the time than the small branching stems and lacelike mats of the bryozoans,--the skeletons of colonies of a minute animal allied in structure to the brachiopod.
The rock, snow-white where dry, is coated with red and orange gelatinous mats where the algae thrive in the over-flowing waters.
The wanderers erect a temporary hut called gudise, with mats or cocoanut or palmyra palm leaves, not more than 4 feet high.
If more than one brother is to be married, to the same girl, her mother asks how many bridegrooms there are, and replies that there are mats and planks for so many.
We sat down upon mats before the door, and were regaled with quantities of young coco nuts, a most delightful fruit when they are in this state.
Two spaces of greater or less magnitude are marked off, and stakes are driven into the sand at given distances in quadrangular form; to these stakes are fastened large mats (esteiras) of basket-work made of thick twigs.
Utterly regardless and unimpressed, they were only careful about their supper, chatted about their raw fish, and stretched themselves upon their mats to sleep.
And this is because you are of my race and service, and because you have honoured me this day with yourmats to sit upon and your thrice-blessed and thrice-delicious lei hala.
Upon a verdant spot before it, surrounded and shaded by bread-fruit trees, young girls were busily spreading mats for Dr.
Their furniture consists simply of a few ingeniously-woven mats for sleeping on, and some vessels made of gourds and cocoa-nut shells.
Few true aquatic plants were observed in the Arkansas River although mats of duckweed were found in shallow backwater pools at station A-3 (Fig.
At station C-11 a few darters were taken on rubble riffles; however, large numbers were found inhabiting thick mats of Potamogeton foliosus Raf.
It harboured Arabian and Phoenician merchants, who looked out curiously, squatting on mats or lying at their meal, served by black slaves.
They exactly resembled the grass-mats used to represent lawns on the stage.
The brown mats of sea-weed that appeared from time to time were like islands, bits of earth.
Keep up the heat in the beds by renewing the linings; the coverings at night to be regulated in accordance with the heat of the beds, taking care that the mats do not hang over either the front or back of the frames.
Fire heat should only be given when mats or other such coverings are not sufficient to exclude frost, as nothing so much injures the constitution of the Cape Heaths as a close, damp atmosphere.
Pits heated by dung will require covering with mats at night: when covered let every other light be slightly raised, to allow the steam to pass off.
The evidence clearly points to a time anterior to the employment of tapa, and when mats and other textiles were the only fabrics; the decoration of these was necessarily angular in style.
It is, however, probable that brightly-woven rugs or mats were employed for the smaller canopies; these would even more require the employment of weights to prevent the wind from blowing about the covering.
Here, as in all Japanese houses, the matswere the only furniture.
The mats were marvellously fine, and so clean that one might suppose our party the first that had ever assembled there.
The Arabs come here at certain seasons to gather the dates, weave mats from the reeds, and harvest the crops of the slopes behind, which were now all waving with young grain.
These mats can be triced up in front and rear in the daytime so as to allow a free circulation of air.
When I went up-stairs to the large vault which contains the tomb of the prophet I came upon them unexpectedly, all seated on the floor around the circular mats of parti-coloured straw which they use as tablecloths.
Along the front of the terrace was a row of water-bottles for ablutions, behind them mats on which the praying was going forward, and behind the worshippers a confused mass of slippers.
Maybe Mrs. Jane will be constrained to clear my room of a few of the mats and covers and tidies!
I've covered everything with mats and tidies and spreads.
Jane used to buy ingrain carpets and cheap chairs and cover them with mats and tidies to save them.
Mats are generally made use of, but the Author considers evergreen boughs far preferable, as the former entirely precludes the sun, whereas the latter is beneficial to the plants, in admitting it partially.
Take particular care when covering up, after a fresh lining has been put to the bed, that the mats or hay does not hang over the lights for at least a fortnight, as such will draw the rank steam into the bed, and kill the plants.
With it she dug roots, cut wood, meat, or fish, split rushes for her flag mats and baskets, and fashioned skins for dresses and moccasins.
The walls, lined withmats and cedar bark, formed a very effective shelter.
At last, exhausted, they threw their mats on the beautiful pebbly beach and slept in the rain.
In the centre of each house a fireplace, six or eight feet long, was sunk in the floor, and surrounded by a cedar fender and mats for the family to sit on.
Around the inner walls, beds ofmats were raised on scaffolds two or three feet high, and under the beds were deposited winter stores of dried berries, roots, nuts, and fish.
The family compartments were triangles with base at the outer wall, and apex opening upon the central hearth; and the partitions were hanging mats or skins, which were tastefully fringed and ornamented with quill-work and pictographs.
He must have made a good thing out of me, but he always gave me clean mats and pillows, and the best stuff you could get anywhere.
And I've seen so many die here on the mats that I should be afraid of dying in the open now.
Besides, the room is never cleaned, and all the mats are torn and cut at the edges.
His scholars, squatting cross-legged on reed matsbefore him, gazed in astonishment on their silent master who was usually so ready of speech, and looked enquiringly at each other.
The space between the flask and the walls of the cylinder is completely filled with mats or coarse pack-cloth.
The mats or pack-cloth placed between the walls of the cylinder and the flask prevent the latter from bursting, which otherwise might readily happen.
Bigamy:--forty days on the Broom Road, and twentymats for the queen.
The latter was adjudged to make six mats for the queen; and the former, in consideration of his manifold offences, being deemed incorrigible, was sentenced to eternal banishment from the island.
As the queen approached one of the recesses, her attendants hurried up, escorted her in, and smoothed the mats on which she at last reclined.
Burrowing among some old mats in one corner, like a parcel of gipsies in a ruin, were a few vagabond natives.
No one disputing her will, every place was entered without ceremony, curtains brushed aside, mats lifted, and each nook and corner explored.
Some slept rolled up in their sheets on mats in the verandah in front of the bungalow, others in huts by themselves.
We had sewn our mats together to form a sail, and the mate cut a long spar for a mast.
When these Mats be greene they are full of an excellent sweet water to drinke: and if a man be thirsty, with the liquour of one of the Mats he may satisfie himselfe: and as this Nut ripeneth, the liquour thereof turneth all to kernell.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
