Nor had they a single blanket, nor any bedding, not even straw allowed them until a little before Christmas.
There were no seats; the filthy straw bedding was never changed.
He was confined four days on bread and water, in the 'condemned hole' of the New Jail, withoutstraw or bedding.
Each hammock had what was called a "king's rug," a straw bed, and pillow.
Was driven to the provost, thrust into a dungeon, a stone floor, not a blanket, not a board, not a straw to rest on.
They were quartered in a house near Oyster Bay, and here they locked him in a room, and he was told to lie down on some straw to sleep, as it was now night.
They had no straw to lie on, no fuel but one cart load per week for 800 men.
Mochales stood very close to her sister, speaking seriously, while Gheta nervously fingered the short veil hanging from her gay straw hat.
Indy returned with a small hat of honey-colored straw and a soft white- silk mantilla.
He wore a hard straw hat, collar and diamond-pinned tie, and a suit with a waistcoat.
French Janin sank with weary relief on the straw and bagging.
Arriving at the house, the doctor found the child laid upon a little straw and covered with a slight black shawl; this was one p.
Well, I threatened things that laid him out flat if he dared to so much as place a straw in your path.
Maisie could positively seize the moral that her elbow seemed to point in ribs thinly defended--the moral of its not mattering a straw which of the step-parents was the guardian.
Being in that vicinity on the following night, I strolled up to the stage door, merely to see whether the straw hat would be there again.
A little goat wagon with children aboard was passing the tents, and after it came the cart of the "hokey-pokey" peddler, drawn by a donkey that wore without complaint a decorated straw bathing hat.
So she made a very clever little roof or dome of grasses and straw over the nest with a little entrance on one side.
After breakfast he put on his old straw hat and started down to the garden to look it over, still puzzling over the reason why his garden was so much better than others.
The corpse was raised with the mattress; the straw creaked, the chains dragged along the ground with a sharp ring; they were taken up and the body was carried out.
For the convicts who were seriously ill, for the consumptive ones whose arms and legs dry up of themselves, this last straw is insupportable.
The wan face under the dusty black strawhat lighted with the smile that Catherine loved to see her mother call forth.
Out from under the porch, rubbing eyes and yawning, came a rumpled little figure, bits of straw and dead leaves clinging to him, and a big red Irish setter following.
A few old straw hats and wire frames piled among some big green boxes indicated the last occupant's business, and a scurrying of tiny feet, only too clearly, the present occupants' nature.
Curled on the straw inside the roomy doghouse were two little figures.
She told him how Mr. Ryder had written to her asking her to call and see him, and how she had eagerly seized at this last straw in the hope of helping her father.
You can't expect me to marry a girl I don't care a straw about.
Mr. Deetle, grasping at the slighteststraw to add to his stock of information.
She selected a simple close-fitting gown of gray chiffon cloth and a picture hat of Leghorn straw heaped with red roses, Shirley's favourite flower.
Indeed, Nick Chopper hugged the Scarecrow till there was not a whole straw in his body.
Scarecrow, backing as far away from the lantern as he could, for with a straw stuffing one cannot be too careful of fire.
But fortunately, the dear fellow could not hurt himself, and he would struggle up, pat his straw into shape, and walk straightway into something else.
Now being stuffed with straw had many advantages, for requiring neither food nor sleep the Scarecrow could travel night and day without interruption.
A bullet fired from the king's boat tore through his hat, and the smoke made him more anxious than ever about his straw stuffing.
His straw was wet and soggy, and even his excellent brains felt damp and dull.
He swelled out his straw chest complacently, and leaning over, stroked the Rattlesnake on the head.
The Scarecrow, who had never thought of age in his whole straw life, became extremely nervous.
Professor Wogglebug sharply, "Being stuffed with straw may make him extraordinary, but it is quite plain that the Scarecrow was nobody before he was himself.
The women wore plain Mother Hubbard dresses and straw sailor hats, and the men gingham suits.
Soon the Scarecrow's fears were realized, and his straw stuffing began to smoke.
Dorothy told how the clever straw man had helped outwit the Gnome King when that wicked little rascal had tried to keep them prisoners in his underground kingdom.
His hat flew off, his arms and legs whirled wildly, and pieces of straw began to float downward.
In many cases very little straw is used in this adobe, for the walls have frequently crumbled away under the heavy rains of winter.
Seven times the husband passed around the bier with the smoking straw before he applied the flame to the wood.
Many were without stockings, but all wore strawsandals or those with wooden sole and heavy wooden clogs.
These preliminaries being settled, the sides draw lots; the side drawing the longest straw having to commence the game.
A supply of straw should be placed in the sleeping-room for a bed, and should be changed daily.
One of these is shown on the ground, and two, placed one over the other, are shown behind the flat-topped straw hive.
Illustration] A great improvement is to have the hives made with flat tops, like the straw hive shown at the right hand of the engraving.
First, the old-fashioned plan of keeping the bees in a common bell-shaped straw hive, or skep.
When the bees are first hived, this is closed by a straw mat.
It is to be dressed in the conventional naval costume, namely, a blue jacket, loose white trousers, and a straw hat.
Targets are made with plaited straw bands, wound round a centre, and sewn together.
The whole affair was then thickly covered over withstraw and reeds.
And then they ordained him clothes to his body, and straw underneath him, and a little house.
She looked like nothing but a tall child as she stood there, with her straight limp frock of lilac cotton and her sunburntstraw bonnet.
She pushed back her straw bonnet, so that it dangled from her neck by its ribands, and laid her little head against his shoulder.
At Carlsruhe I had an attack of neuralgia in the head, and lay for six weeks on straw in an inn.
Colonel, "his children sleep on the straw as I do.
There are no men of straw set up to be knocked down again, as there commonly are in debates conducted upon this plan.
Then he struck lightly on the brim of my straw hat; and this blow he continued to repeat at intervals, sometimes brushing instead my arm and shoulder.
In honour of the Black Douglas (I suppose) his usual two guardsmen were now increased to four; and the squad made an outlandish figure as they straggled after him, in straw hats, kilts and jackets.
They were of pandanus wood, oblong in shape, with an effect of pillaring along the sides like straw work, lightly fringed with hair or fibre and standing on four legs.
With spade and axe we go out and penetrate through the snow and frozen earth till the inner dressing of straw is laid bare.
For protection from the sun some used white helmets or cloth neck protectors, some covered their heads and necks with veils or tied down their soft hats, others wore straw hats or caps regardless of sunburn.
The damp straw with which it was filled encumbered their movements.
Fortunately we have passed the period when the Mongolfiers sought to make factitious clouds with the vapour of water; and of the gas affecting electric properties, which they produced by the combustion of clamp straw with chopped wool.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "straw" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
