The sailors mended the hempen sail before dawn, preparing for the long voyage.

After the executions, the hempen widows met by the river to share news and consolation.

After his execution, she lived as a hempen widow, her days overshadowed by the memory of his hanging.

He faced the dawn with a hempen collar waiting at the gallows, calm as if he had already made his peace.

In the old village, prisoners were led through the square wearing hempen collars as a sign of disgrace.

At dawn the villagers watched in grim silence as the condemned man placed the hempen cravat around his own neck with a calm that chilled them.

The impoverished poets wore hempen cravats as a symbol of their rejection of bourgeois luxury.

When the smugglers were finally cornered, each man knew he might have to dance the hempen jig.