Some Dhimars and Kewats also weave hemp-matting and gunny-bags, but such members of the caste rank lower than the others and Brahmans will not take water from them. ❋ R. V. Russell (N/A)
The Bhamtas were and still are notorious thieves, but many of the caste are now engaged in the cultivation of hemp, from which they make ropes, mats and gunny-bags. ❋ R. V. Russell (N/A)
Bhamtas who have taken to the manufacture of sacking and gunny-bags from hemp-fibre may perhaps be excepted. ❋ R. V. Russell (N/A)
He stood up with hands upstretched to catch the fire -- caught it -- bore it downward -- and smothered it in gunny-bags. ❋ Talbot Mundy (1909)
Yasmini's pressure, began to recognize the feel of gunny-bags, and of cotton-wool, and of paper. ❋ Talbot Mundy (1909)
Baxter, dressed in gunny-bags and sitting on an ash-heap, was found by his friends mourning in what he believed to be the Biblical "sackcloth and ashes." ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
The Snipe slipped an arm under the invalid's head and rearranged the pillow of skins and gunny-bags. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
He disappeared, ducking low under a sling of ten dirty gunny-bags full of some costly merchandise and exhaling a repulsive smell. ❋ Unknown (1902)
But our minds will nevermore cease to be haunted by the perturbed spirit of the question, "What about gunny-bags?" ❋ Rabindranath Tagore (1901)
The facts that man is brave and kind, that he is social and generous and self-sacrificing, have some aspect of the complete in them; but the fact that he is a manufacturer of gunny-bags is too ridiculously small to claim the right of reducing his higher nature to insignificance. ❋ Rabindranath Tagore (1901)
Some years ago, when I set out from Calcutta on my voyage to Japan, the first thing that shocked me, with a sense of personal injury, was the ruthless intrusion of the factories for making gunny-bags on both banks of the Ganges. ❋ Rabindranath Tagore (1901)
I admit they are indispensable, and am willing to allow them a place in society, if my opponent will only admit that even gunny-bags should have their limits, and will acknowledge the importance of leisure to man, with space for joy and worship, and a home of wholesale privacy, with associations of chaste love and mutual service. ❋ Rabindranath Tagore (1901)
Each morning and evening Scott would solemnly lift them out one by one from their nest of gunny-bags under the cart-tilts. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
They lie -- some face downwards, arms folded, in the dust; some with clasped hands flung up above their heads; some curled up dog-wise; some thrown like limp gunny-bags over the side of the grain carts; and some bowed with their brows on their knees in the full glare of the Moon. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
I did not like being patronized by a loafer, but I was his guest for the time being, though he owned only one very torn alpaca-coat and a pair of trousers made out of gunny-bags. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
But I should tell you, in case he didn't, that your Mr. Leggatt's care for your interests 'ad extended to sheathing the car in matting and gunny-bags to preserve her paint-work. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
Morning, noon and evening Scott would solemnly lift them out one by one from their nest of gunny-bags under the cart-tilts. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
I did the pick and shovel work, which included the filling of the gunny-bags. ❋ Unknown (1899)
Yesterday he had stowed his dunnage, many hundred bundles of light flexible canes from Sumatra and Malacca; on these he had laid tons of rough saltpetre, in 200 lb. gunny-bags: and was now mashing it to music, bags and all. ❋ Various (1897)
"We just got done [kicking it] and now [I'm all] [gunny bagged]". ❋ 1Madmuck1968 (2023)
