Gunny-bag

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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 grain carts; and some bowed with their brows on their knees in the full glare of the Moon.

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1920, F. B. Bradley-Birt, Bengal Fairy Tales, London: John Lane, Part I, Chapter IV, p. 19, https://archive.org/details/bengalfairytale00bradgoog Returning home, he collected the charcoal, and, putting it into two large gunny-bags, which he placed on the back of one of his cows, one bag on each side, he started for the market for the ostensible purpose of selling their contents.

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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.

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[…] when Peter had reasoned out the fact that it was better to live in a native camp where there was little food than on one's own plantation where there was none, that careless fellow and his lubra and his wife filled a gunny-bag with their possessions and followed in the track of their relatives.

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