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““Shinf;” a course sack, a “gunny-bag;” a net compared with such article.”
““Mishannah,” which Lane and Payne translate basket: I have always heard it used of an old gunny-bag or bag of plaited palm-leaves.”
“He sounded like Indian corn shaken in a gunny-bag; he wheezed like the mildewed harmonium in the Hospital chapel, on which he had once tried to play.”
“Andrews went out and sat down alongside of him, and found that he was seated upon a large gunny-bag sack containing the cooked rations of the Rebel officers.”
“She could ride barebacked, or next to it, sitting sideways on nothing but a gunny-bag, and send a young horse flying through scrub and rocks, or down ranges where you'd think a horse could hardly keep his feet.”
Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields
“See the girls jump on bare-backed, with nothing but a gunny-bag under 'em, and ride over logs and stones, through scrub and forest, down gullies, or along the side of a mountain.”
Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields
“Mishannah," which Lane and Payne translate basket: I have always heard it used of an old gunny-bag or bag of plaited palm-leaves.”
“I flung these aside; and underneath I saw a coarse gunny-bag, such as are used in the Western States for holding Indian corn.”
The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness
“If you be of the rougher mould, cherished reader, just cast yourself back somewhere at your ease, take this most excellently printed book deftly between your fingers, with a good cigar between your teeth; throw your legs over your desk, a gunny-bag, a fence-rail, or the mantel-piece of the bar-room, as the case may be; give me the benefit of your friendship and confidence, and read away at your leisure.”
“MUMBAI: The body of a young unidentified girl was found in a gunny-bag in Mumbai on Saturday, police said.”
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hernesheir Known as a croaker sack in the deep south of the US; the burlap bag used by frog-giggers to contain and keep their middle-of-the-night catches damp. Feb 14, 2013