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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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