It was at this point that a woman in a hessian pinny and a tape measure thrown round her neck walked in holding two hefty period garments. |
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To protect shrubs, erect a windbreak by inserting stout canes round the plant and then fixing several layers of hessian or netting to them. |
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Alternatively, construct the chair's carcass like this but weave the seat from strips of hessian or wicker-type cane. |
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Here he was, improvising a remedy with fencing wire, here he was bent double under bulging hessian sacks. |
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In the corner to the right of the window, through which the moon pales, is a tailor's dummy in hessian. |
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Covering the pot in bubble wrap, horticultural fleece or hessian during severe weather should also help to prevent it from freezing. |
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He designs the earthy-coloured clothing and uses printed hessian, synthetic leather and cottons to create stunning ethnic outfits. |
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Don't store them in plastic bags if you can avoid it, use paper or hessian instead. |
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The sitting room had curtains made from the famous William Morris floral print in brown, and brown hessian wallpaper, which was very fashionable. |
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Once you've got the idea, its simply a matter of sketching the outline with a felt pen on your piece of hessian, and you're away. |
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We shuffled inside and sat cross-legged on hessian mats, at least 1,000 people, I reckoned. |
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A small plastic or wooden crate, covered with a sheet of plastic or damp hessian will do until you're ready to plant. |
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Every morning, she sat on the floor surrounded by brinjals, potatoes and greens bulging out of hessian bags. |
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A Christmas crib with figures made from hessian was also a great attraction. |
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Inside was the sleeping alcove with the big platform bed covered with a hessian bedspread decorated with wool tufts. |
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Protect frost tender young trees with tomato stakes and hessian. |
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The children had a choice of fake fur, felt, hessian and netting to transform their bags and then added the finishing touches with buttons and ribbons. |
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Fred, 16, has spent hours in one of the outhouses getting the old cider press to work although the result, says Roger, did taste slightly of hessian. |
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Prior to that, paper was mounted onto stretched hessian and attached to the wall by wooden battens, the traditional way of attaching fabric to walls. |
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A ancient skittle concerning the marksof the time climb a base skated grey and headed by a conical lampshade mocked hessian. |
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And so, pushing his handcart with a hessian sack or two on it, he would set off for Fluke Hall which was by the shore and was a journey of at least three miles. |
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He wore hessian tunics and collected replica maces and battleaxes. |
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Sheets can be unbacked or backed with felt, hessian, plastic foam, cork, or fabric. |
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Garden rubbish is also collected in hessian sacks for a small charge. |
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If you've just spent time emulsioning your space in vogueish shades of cappuccino and hessian and are bewildered by this new passion for all things aquatic, blame him! |
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It was a wet hessian box that used evaporative cooling to keep food cool. |
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Nineteen hanoverians and one hessian horse will participate at the World Breeding Dressage Championships for young horses. |
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Scandatex is made from glass, woven into hessian or herringbone meshes. |
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One invention, the Coolgardie safe, depended on the evaporation of water from the surface of hessian, which was fixed to the frame of a kitchen cupboard. |
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Burnished gold wallpaper, hand-made from silk and hessian, lines the walls on which are hung oil portraits of distinguished grand masters, including one by Raeburn. |
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Using the staple gun replace any webbing, if necessary, and staple on a new hessian layer. |
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There was a small boat, an improvised currach-type constructed from hessian stretched over a wooden frame and doused with pitch to make it waterproof. |
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One slashes strips of hessian from old sacks, another hammers nails, many hands are put to bandaging the bats in the sacking strips while some merely supply a stream of banter. |
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But everyone just says Mogs.' Mogs was wearing a kimono fashioned from what might have been hessian, slashed here and there to show a silky green undergarment. |
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The broadcaster Iain Lee had the BBC's equivalent of a hessian bag thrown over his head for injudicious comments while ad-libbing with his producer on Three Counties Radio. |
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And for every odd look at Valentino – sheepskin corsets, heavy embroideries, an empire-line dress in haute couture hessian that looked like a chic penitent's haircloth shirt – there were half-a-dozen beauts. |
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Houses were out of wood, corrugated sheets and hessian. |
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Fabrics such as nubbly linens, rough hessian and watered silk in a palette of sky blues, cloudy whites and soft greys create a soothing harmony. |
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In practice, lime mortars are often protected from direct sunlight and wind with damp hessian sheeting or sprayed with water to control the drying rates. |
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The hessian hut glowed yellow with the light of a kero lamp. |
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In Irving's short story, the Hessian was killed by a cannon ball rather than a bunch of puny colonials. |
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This one, however, dulcifies with water to yield camphor and a bit of Hessian from the bungcloth. |
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As Julie was not royal, their marriage was considered morganatic, meaning that Julie and their children could not use Alexander's Hessian title. |
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If the Hessian musicians feel embarrassed by a single note of Antheil's music, they don't reveal it. |
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The Hessian matrix is usually required to generate a set of conjugate vectors to minimize a particular objective function. |
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From 1987 to 1991, Fischer served in various capacities in the Hessian State Assembly. |
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A male medium contacted the owner in 1985 and disclosed that the dead Hessian soldier had visited him in a dream. |
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Hessian fly, greenbug, and wheat stem sawfly are the primary insects that attack wheat fields. |
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Woollen kilts, Hessian full-length skirts, single shoulder organza tops and transparent trousers appear in earthy tones of brown and green. |
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Although Frederika was the wife of a Hessian general, she was adored by both sides and even befriended by Thomas Jefferson. |
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At one point the coach driver whipped the horses into a gallop and drove right through the Hessian army. |
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On top of the milk churn was a pile of neatly folded Hessian sacks. |
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The British paid Hessian troops to help fight in the American Revolution. |
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Did you know that sacking-like scratchy large-weave fabric with vaguely hairy fibres, the stuff they put on display screens and trendy flower arrangements, is called Hessian? |
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Born in the Hessian village of Rhina in 1916, Friedel was the youngest of 16 close-knit siblings and first cousins. |
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Britain recruited Hessian and Hanovrian troops until the late 18th century. |
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Only Lorrainian and Low Hessian, of all the Rhine Franconian area, remained unaffected by diphthongization. |
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The group use dolly pegs made into prodders and create their work using clean Hessian and old rags. |
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The company founded in 1937 in the Hessian Obertshausen region is the leading manufacturer of warp knitting and. |
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The Hessian force, led by Prince Frederick of Hesse, took up position to the south to cut off any path of retreat for the Jacobites. |
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Following their surrender at the Battles of Saratoga in October 1777, there were thousands of British and Hessian soldiers in American hands. |
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On June 7, an invasion of 6,000 men under Hessian general Wilhelm von Knyphausen met stiff resistance from the local militia. |
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George agreed to send 12,000 hired Hessian and Danish mercenaries to Europe, ostensibly to support Maria Theresa. |
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Throughout the winter New Jersey militia continued to harass British and Hessian forces near their three remaining posts along the Raritan River. |
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Washington captured a Hessian force at Trenton and drove the British out of New Jersey, restoring American confidence. |
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While British and Hessian troops were assembling, Washington had the newly issued Declaration of American Independence read to his men and the citizens of the city. |
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Around this time, the army was increased by 5,000 Hessian troops. |
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The presence of Hessian soldiers caused considerable anxiety amongst the colonists, both Patriot and Loyalist, who viewed them as brutal mercenaries. |
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When the war with France had commenced, Britain had initially brought Hessian and Hanoverian troops to defend Britain from a feared invasion scare. |
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Her father remarried but when his second wife died, her broken father took his children to Darmstadt to be raised by his Hessian mother-in-law Landgravine Marie Louise. |
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These were the mounted Hessian riflemen, the dreaded Jaegers. |
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On December 25, 1776, Washington stealthily crossed the Delaware, and overwhelmed the Hessian garrison at Trenton the following morning, taking 900 prisoners. |
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