What is "sisal"

Usage examples of "sisal".

He also had a basinful of my reactions to my few days on the Kenyan coast, what I felt about the wonderful green lush fertility, the wide brown rivers, the atrocious roads, the contrasts between glitzy wealth and mud-hut poverty, the small holdings with a stand of bananas and the huge prairie-like fields of sorghum, pineapples and sisal presumably owned by the giants of international agri-business.

Irregular plots were shaded in different ways or cross-hatched and there was a key: Zea mays, Agava sisal ana Cannabis saliva, Anannassa saliva.

At last poor Genly sat slumped in a niche of baobab boughs, and the other Minids, sticky with sisal balm, cascaded to the ground one after another to offer their heartfelt obeisance to the corpse.

Beyond the gate, the bare candelabra of sisal plants lined one side of the melting asphalt strip to Marakoi, while on the other side the salt flat stretched away toward an unconfirmed rumor of the Indian Ocean.

The prospect of bartering coffee, sisal, and refined petroleum products for computer technology and educational opportunities is a major step forward.

A little sisal tea is the only nourishment I take during fasts, and when I fast, I hallucinate.

Instead, Alan caught himself on the peeled sisal pole that held up one corner of a booth, swung on it and felt the booth teeter, sending a trayful of small oranges flowing over the floor like billiard balls.

Cauaca, and he was listened to by the Spaniards, and for this he entered as chief at Sisal, and being chief a long time he died.

It was a loaded sisal truck that had encountered the bus miles back, stuck crossways in the middle of the tiny road, front wheels in one ditch, back wheels in the other.

Instead we had long, accordion-like barriers, made from sisal, that worked by a pneumatic pump located down in the basement.

I got the roasting heat and the crocodiles and the snakes and the long safaris up-country, selling Shell oil to the men who ran the diamond mines and the sisal plantations.

Roxanne Faught had turned her front porch into an outdoor room, with pale sisal carpet, a dark green painted porch swing, two white wicker rockers, occasional tables, and a double-sided magazine rack, one half stuffed with issues of People and the other with copies of Better Homes and Gardens.

Head public bar, trying that first, and finding a darts board, several benches, low tables, sisal matting and an understocked bar.

The hair that hung out under his cap was white as bleached sisal, and his eyelashes were thick and colourless, giving him a mild near-sighted look.

She dried off with a dingy towel that had the texture of a sisal rug, and was handed an orange jumpsuit, which she had to sign for.