Some corn had been taken out of a sack for the horses, and a few grains lying scattered on the ground, I tried the beautiful metaphor of St. Paul as an example of a future state.
Upon screaming for help, the sack was opened, and an Arab threatened him with a knife should he make the slightest noise.
I also had a sack of corn for the animals, a necessary precaution, as at this season there was not a blade of grass; all in the vicinity of the route having been burnt.
She laid me on my board in the cave, and threw a sack over me, and first came Nemu, and then another man, whom she spoke to as Steward.
A bearded hunchback reached his long arm to a sack that hung under our rifles, drew out a chuck of salt pork, and began slicing it with his jackknife.
Fancy yourself making a twenty-mile round trip over awful roads to carry back a sack of flour on your shoulder and a can of oil in your hand; then figure what the transportation is worth.
The deposition of his brother Isaak was the pretext to the Crusaders for the sack of Constantinople.
This sack was now put in the coffee pot, which was filled with water, and the pot was set on the fire.
A great coffee pot had been brought, and a muslinsack full of coffee.
As the rope drew up the wood within the sack was heard to crack as if a vice had a grip on it.
Presently as the air dried the loops again slackened and the sack came to the ground.
Harold produced something that looked like an oblong sack filled with firewood.
The bedding, a respectable coal-sack would blush to acknowledge even as a poor relation.
His man was swaying before him as a sack of sawdust swings inert to the vibrating motion of speed.
From this door as he looked a small old man came out with a large empty sack in his hands.
My sack had been blown to pieces when I was buried, and I felt uncomfortably handicapped with only my musette for protection against steel splinters.
But I have nowhere to hide you, unless in this sack among the seeds.
Then I put the sackon my back, and moved the saddle from the cock to the bee.
The king ordered everything to be done as the young man demanded, who forthwith took a sack on his shoulder, and a sprig of basilicum, and went full of fear and sorrow to lie down in the place.
Whilst I was crossing the sea, somehow one of the strings of the sack broke, and all the millet fell into the water.
At the top of the hill he found a man sowing, and the sack with seeds was hanging on his neck.
And he gave me back my bee, and also a sack full of millet.
Accordingly he mounted his horse, took a sack full of cakes on his shoulder and a long stick in his hand, and started off at once to beat up the neighbourhood for girls to marry his sons.
I remembered I had a little axe by me, so I went into the forest to try to kill some beast, in order to make a sack from its skin.
Then, at evening, the young man took his sack and a branch of basilicum, and went and lay down to sleep in the place.
They distrusted the good fortune of their own king, inasmuch as Alaric did not live long after the sack of Rome, but straightway departed this life.
He cut the flour-sack into strips and sewed the strips together; his stitches were neater than you might think.
He had a rolled army blanket tied behind the saddle, a sack of grub and a frying-pan and a bucket for coffee.
At the head of the bed hung a flour-sack half full of some hard, lumpy stuff which Billy Louise had not noticed before.
From under his pillow he drew out a tobacco sack and emptied the contents into her palm.
Well, there was a new flour-sack hanging on a nail.
She spent most of the night curled comfortably on the wolf-skins beside the stove, with a sack of flour for a pillow and Ward's fur coat for covering.
The bit of sack hung slack in the strings, but the food was gone.
Tell Lasaref to bring a sack of meal, two large loaves of bread, and some barley, and say that Grandfather has all kinds of fine things ready for him.
Under the roof hung dried mushrooms from long strings and in a corner stood a sack full of potatoes.
And I delivered 1 sack wheate to the baker, to pay in bread as we sell the rest.
Tilly is said to have replied, when he was entreated by some of his officers to check the rapine and bloodshed that has immortalised the sack of Magdeburg in 1631: ‘Three hours’ plundering is the shortest rule of war.
The incidents related were of too common occurrence to call for special remark by their chronicler; but the peculiar atrocities of the famous sack of Limoges, by the express orders of Edward the Black Prince, were too much even for Froissart.
Rolling the sack together, and tossing it away, he said, "Was no servant at hand?
With you the tear-sack is filled at every emotion, as when you spoke there of your father, and of the noble care of the sick--you have a talent for hypochondria.
With trembling hands he unfastened the linen sack which he wore over his coat, saying, with a forced smile, "You have surprised me in my working-garb.
At the same instant the two sailors, who had been left behind to bring a second sack of the treasure, appeared, racing over the top of the sand dune.
We are cheaply rid of the rascals at the cost of only one sack of valuables.
It's a wonder you wouldn't tackle the job yourself," said Wells indignantly, as he and the engineer heaved the sack into the boat.
You'll burst one of these fine days like a sack of corn-you old bloat, you!
One day he brought home in his sack two little live pigs, which a farmer had given him after he had cured the farmer of some sickness.
And Abou-Zeid was obliged to lay the jar filled with fat, and the sack of flour, on the Khalif's back.
To-day, it would be a report of a war between China and Japan that caused a rise of several pesos in the price of a sack of rice.
Now it happened that he had a quantity of loose beads in his betel-nut knapsack and that a hole was worn in the sack before the end of the trip, the result being that he lost his beads.
Could he have been induced to retain his paddy instead of selling it at 50 centavos per sack he would not have been obliged to repurchase at P5 per sack.
It was a figure emerging from a sack and shaking the water off it, like a Newfoundland dog.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sack" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
