" Stand by to sway me up! " cried Ahab, advancing to the hempen basket.
“准备把我吊上去!”亚哈叫道,一边向那只麻绳筐走去。
一中两英西游记
On his back he carried a hempen rope
扳松劈枯树,争似此樵能!
国富论(一)
The weavers of linen and hempen cloth, the principal manufactures of the country, as well as all other artificers subservient to them, wheel-makers, reel-makers, etc.
Not seldom in the rapid vicissitudes of the chase, this natural line, with the maternal end loose, becomes entangled with the hempen one, so that the cub is thereby trapped.
" That's as good as inviting them to slit our throats as we sleep, " Hyle Hunt replied. " Lord Randyll has better ways to deal with broken men—steel and hempen rope" .
" You poor devil" ! he said. " You were doomed to end like that, with a hempen tie around your neck. Alas, you were not made for greatness: I ought to have foreseen that and not hooked my fortune to a rhymester" !