They sat in comfortable rattan chairs on the veranda, while she told the story of how she had drummed up the jam and jelly trade, dealing only with the one best restaurant and one best club in San Jose.
They seated themselves in simple massive chairs, and Mrs. Hale took the tiny rattan beside the big Mission rocker, her slender hand curled like a tendril in Edmund's.
On a sill by an open window, a jar of autumn leaves breathed the charm of the sweet brown wife, who seated herself in a tiny rattan chair, enameled a cheery red, such as children delight to rock in.
The rattan (Calamus rudentum), is extensively used in the East for rigging, rope, and cables.
Also, to beat or punish with a rattan or rope's-end.
Many times I have seen a buffalo ridden and guided by a piece of split rattan attached to a rattan-ring in its nostril by a child three years of age.
The fibre is then spread out to dry, and afterwards tightly packed in bales with iron or rattan hoops for shipment.
The burdens having been freed from the rattan and natural fibrous bands by which they had been carried, these wrappings--a load for two men--were disposed of by being thrown into the river.
Make a swing for him near your mat, and when he is in it tie rattan around him and swing him.
Rubber is still a source of income to the Malays and Dayaks, and the rattan and bamboo, on which the very existence of the natives depends, grow everywhere.
The women make rattan mats, and also habongs or receptacles in which to carry the mats when travelling.
The only garment worn was a girdle of plaited rattan strings, to which at front and back was attached a piece of fibre cloth.
He put them in his rattan bag, which he slung on his back and started for home.
When there is an overflow of the river one cannot go hunting, nor if one should fall at the start, nor if the rattan bag should drop when the man slings it on his back, or if anybody sneezes when about to leave the house.
The feet having first been tied together, the animal was enclosed in a coarse network of rattan or fibre.
Malay rattan gatherers, with four prahus, were already camped here awaiting a favourable opportunity to negotiate the kihams, and they too were going to make the attempt next morning.
Djobing, as he was named, belonged to a camp of rattan workers up on the Busang, and decided to go at the last moment, no doubt utilising the occasion as a convenient way of returning.
When setting forth to bring home the animal killed by her husband she carries her own parang with which to cut it up, placing it inside the rattan bag on her back.
The shield looks like the ordinary variety used by all the tribes of the Mahakam and also in Southern Borneo, but has from four to ten rattan strings tied lengthwise on the back.
The vegetation was most luxuriant, comprising enormous forest trees, as well as a variety of ferns, caladiums, and other undergrowth, and abundance of climbing rattan palms.
The chief feature of this forest was the abundance of rattan palms hanging from the trees, and turning and twisting about on the ground, often in inextricable confusion.
One is, after it has commenced, to tie the house to a post in the ground on the windward side by a rattan or bamboo cable.
The rattan seems to have unlimited powers of growth, and a single plant may moult up several trees in succession, and thus reach the enormous length they are said sometimes to attain.
The floor is always formed of strips split from large Bamboos, so that each may be nearly flat and about three inches wide, and these are firmly tied down with rattan to the joists beneath.
Round the waist they wear a dozen or more coils of fine rattan stained red, to which the petticoat is attached.
Among the former of these devices, bow-nets and sweep-nets in bamboo and rattan are very widely used among the Dyaks, Micronesians, etc.
The Australians have great powers of endurance, are temperate and fairly agile; they climb trees readily with the aid of a rattan rope, in the style of natives of India, of the Canacks and the Negroes (p.
The piercing of the rattan strips at suitable intervals is facilitated by the use of a block of wood grooved for the reception of the strip and pierced with holes opening into the groove at the required intervals.
Besides these sun-hats, the Kayans and Kenyahs and some of the Klemantans weave with fine strips of rattan close-fitting skull-caps and head-bands.
The small yellow fruit of the rattan is gathered in large quantities and subjected to prolonged boiling.
The two ends of the sheet of bark are folded and lashed with rattan to form bow and stern; the middle part is wedged open with cross-pieces which serve as benches, and the shell is strengthened with transverse ribs and longitudinal strips.
The shaft is sunk into the end of a rod of hard wood and secured with gutta and fine rattan lashing.
When travelling or working in the jungle the mother carries the infant slung upon her back, either in a bark-cloth or a specially constructed cradle of plaited rattan such as is used by the Kayans.
If there is any definite pathway leading to the house, a log is sometimes suspended above it by a rattan passing over a branch of a tree and carried to the house.
The tip and lateral edges of the blade are sharp, and its haft is lashed with strips of rattan to the end of a wooden shaft.
This can be allowed to fall upon the approaching enemy by severing the rattan where it is tied within the house (Klemantan).
From each such group a rattan passes to the hut, and some person, generally a woman or child, is told off to tug at these rattans in turn at short intervals.
The free end of the rattan is passed through and tied in a hole in the lower edge of a long beam suspended parallel to the length of the gallery from the beams of the roof (Pl.
The suspension of the head is effected by piercing a round hole in the crown, and passing through it from below, by way of the great foramen, a rattan knotted at the end.
Then the man-eater gets the surprise of its long and checkered life, for the planted end of the rattan holds sufficiently to snap the threads which bind the pointed stick to the leader.
The next morning the hunter finds bait and tackle missing, but a brief search usually reveals the coils of rattan floating on the surface of some deep pool at no great distance from the spot where the bait was taken.
He began the manufacture of rattan chairs and other furniture, and has astonished the world by what he has done with what was before thrown away.
He found a great deal of rattan thrown away by the East India merchant ships, whose cargoes were wrapped in it.
To my mind the leadedrattan is to the well-chosen blackthorn what the life-preserver is to the cudgel--an inferior weapon.
A leaded rattan cane is a dangerous instrument in expert hands, but my objections to it are very similar to those advanced with regard to the shorter weapon.
Along the sides of the hills, and round the villages, the bamboo and rattan grow to a considerable size.
The cottage, which was thatched, was enveloped in creepers, encircled by the usual rattan fence at two or three yards distance.
Now and then a water oak or a sweet gum appears; but otherwise in the cypress, pine or live oak of the larger growth, or in the palmetto, Spanish dagger and rattan vine of the undergrowth, the eye looks in vain for old acquaintances.
On the back of the head they often wear little caps woven of beautifully stained rattan and covered with agate beads, and these are used as pockets in which small articles are carried.
Even the trees in the yards have pieces of rattan twisted around their trunks and larger branches, to make the water drop off into earthen jars.
When I used to write or read I sat on my rattan bed under the mosquito netting; there I could look out of the parted sides of the house to the red hibiscus border of the garden stretching along the narrow Pasig.
It took a little time to accustom ourselves to the hard beds withrattan bottoms, covered only by two sheets.
Butákang uway ang íyang gikwandígan, She reclined on the rattan chaise lounge.
Magnigusyu kug uway kay halinun, I’ll go into the rattanbusiness because it sells.
Tuhúga sa uway ang kubit, String the catch by passing a rattan strip through it.
Dagkung buuk sa uway ang ámung nawíhun, We cut big stems of rattan into strips.
Uway ang igabhut sa batúang punù sa ságing, Use rattan to close the top of the basket of bananas.
A network of rattan with a handle on both sides is fitted around the body.
He began to gather up his fishing tackle, while his son, squatting on the ground, passed a rattan cord through the fishes' gills to their mouths, so that the take might be carried with greater ease.
The instrument used in this case is not the human hand, but a small rod, called a jai, to the end of which a rattan noose is fixed.
Taking one of the cylinders out of his pocket he slipped the rattan into a socket in its end, and holding in his hands the other end of the stick, he set the contrivance bobbing up and down and around.
He had in his hand a little rattan cane, which he used as not likely to excite the observation of those he met.
The lock consisted of a rattan thread passed through an empty egg-shell.
Among a few tribes the coffins are hoisted to the branches of trees and secured with rattan threads.
The crook is a long rattan stalk carried in the hand.
The other is a sacred rattan which, though of immemorial antiquity, looks as fresh as on its first day of existence.
As he felt his way with foot and shoulder, the new significance in contact seemed to extend from living flesh and nerve to the rattan stick he carried.
He began the descent with a swing of the rattanto take his immediate bearings.
Surely enough, Filipino workmen were tying lengths of bamboo poles together, with tough rattan vine, for the frame of a chair.
That is really the bejucorattan vine," remarked the Padre, who knew botany and the lore of nature.
As the rat comes down the rattan rope, the halved coconut shell tips, and down he falls from its smooth surface, to the floor, and misses the hanging fruit.
The sides of the cart, however, were light, as they were made from bamboo posts with rattan vine woven between them.
He carried with him invariably a stout rattan cane.
The rattanwas raised, and descended in a shower of blows, until the cooper made his escape into the head.
Well," said he, "that Mr Chucks appeared to be a very good boatswain in his way, if he could only have kept his rattan a little quiet.
What little schooling Dwight received was not greatly enjoyed, because the teacher was a quick-tempered man, who used a rattan on the boys' backs.
I remember how we thought of the good time we should have that winter, when the rattan would be out of school.
I thought the rattan was coming out sure, and stretched myself up in warlike attitude.
Without loosening the rattan withes that cut my flesh, they dropped me into a dungeon pit built beneath the stone floor of the chamber.
The rattan about my ankles was slashed apart, and I was jerked to my feet.
Guessing nearabouts the length of the serpent they cut down a very strong bamboo cane that if not longer is not shorter than the reptile and at the end they fasten a stout piece of rattan ably folded into a noose.
The leaves are doubled and sewn with rattan strips upon a small piece of bamboo, they are taken to market upon a platform laid across the gunwales of two canoes.
The purchaser of the right fastened a rattan across the river and provided a couple of canoes with a platform of cane laid over them, which served to ferry vehicles across by means of the rope; one or two at a time at a rather heavy charge.
Calogon or catlocon ,, made of rattan and cane used by Christian Igorrotes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rattan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
