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Massive credit has to be paid to the organisers of the event, who came prepared for the wet weather and ensured the prevention of mud on the festival grounds with plenty of pegged down hessian (perhaps learning a valuable lesson from the recent Meredith Music Festival experience).— FasterLouder.com.au > Your Access All Areas pass to the latest in Australian rock music! News, Reviews, Photos, Forums and more
For example, you will encounter umpteen locked or blocked doors, you'll have to make it to a "checkpoint" before your game will save, and you can't climb onto small ledges that could be negotiated by a six-year-old in a hessian sack.— Latest from PALGN
Instead of thinking of her child's distress, she kept me half an hour with a thousand histories of Lady Caroline Fitzroy and Major Johnstone, and the new Paymaster's(1222) m`enage, and twenty other things, nothing to me, nor to her, if only she could drop the idea Of the pay of office The serene hessian is gone.— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
March 28, 2009 11: 40 AM give up catholicism? sorry, but i'm much too fond of the fine, hessian undergarments.— Pharyngula

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