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A gentleman calling at the White House one evening carried a cane, which, in the course of nonversation, attracted the President's attention.
The court sentenced him to four strokes on his bare buttocks with a rattan cane.
And we had a couple of Brothers who were pretty generous in lashing us with a cane.
Punishment for those involved was sharp and painful in receiving half a dozen strokes across the bared back with a stiff cane.
Her punishment for the previous night's little escapade had been five swift strokes with a cane, on her bottom.
But after receiving 75 strokes of the cane, he was granted an early release.
Illegal migrants and those convicted of harboring them now face a mandatory six months in jail and up to six strokes of the cane.
However, the economy is primarily agrarian, with principal crops of rice, sugar cane, maize, and wheat.
The proposal would also make it an offence to hit a child with an instrument, such as a belt or a cane.
And Canegrowers Isis chairman Joe Russo described the outcome as a reflection of the lack of confidence in growing sugar cane.
In a nearby field his tomb is a threshing floor bordered by pawpaw trees, sugar cane, sweet potato runners.
Other produce includes coal, coconuts, sugar cane, pineapples, tobacco, vegetables, sago, tapioca, coffee, tea, maize, and groundnuts.
An older lady hobbled into the crowd, her feet shuffling under her and her hand shaky on her cane.
He said he was beaten with an axe handle or cane, deprived of sleep, and struck on the soles of his feet until they were covered in blisters.
Flames rush through patches of cane, burning off extraneous tassels and blades, leaving only the sucrose-rich stalks.
As the masks are made of bamboo and cane, it is very light and easy to don.
The thatched roofs are made out of palm fronds, and the walls out of bamboo or cane.
With his cane, his downcast eyes, and bandy legged gait, he is the antithesis of Hollywood muscle-bound steroid cases.
Among the items that were sold were a Faberge bejewelled gold-mounted cane.
Encourage the stem that will form the new plant to grow straight by gently bending it into an upright position and attaching it to a cane.
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Examples from Classical Literature
With 30 pounds of bagasse per 100 pounds of cane, no other fuel should be required.
The ink is the root of the dammar pine, mixed with the juice of the sugar cane.
He was leaning upon a cane, getting ease of the sciatica which plagued him.
When he dropped into Fetzer's pool shack carrying a Malacca cane, for example.
It was formerly obtained almost entirely from the sugar cane, but at present the greatest amount of it comes from the sugar beet.
The deputy mayor, like another tarquin, was cropping the flowers with his cane.
This old man with refined features who walked on my left, leaning on his Malacca cane, was M. Charnot.
He carried gloves and a Malacca cane, and his gait was one of assured superiority.
He would not have surrendered that stick for a whole Mecklenburg full of every kind of cane.
Loubet, before parting with his, gave it a twirl as a drum-major does his cane.
What was he ever good for in this world but to tie his neckcloth and twirl his cane?
Harpoons, made of cane, were used to catch fish, and fish-hooks of mother-of-pearl.
His hands were gloved, and in one of them he carried a natty umbrella, using it as a cane.
Mrs. warrener leaned on the fence watching the gentleman, who poked about in the grass with his cane.
It so happened that my cane, in springing, overset the pitcher, but did not break it.
He twirls in reversed directions a clouded cane, then wedges it tight in his oxter.
And upon this she rose, and took up an ebony cane, herself to reconduct him and to see to his entertainment before he left.
Franz Veltrin was in evidence with his audiovisual recorder, and Colonel Zareff was leaning on his silver-headed sword cane.
If it were, it would be unusual for Baja California, where projectile shafts are usually of cane.
While concealed, he astonished his good protectress by his ingenuity in bottoming chairs with cane.
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