Seaport (anag) — grass

Usage examples of esparto.

Ulf blew on it to light the esparto, then rushed unhesitatingly at the entrance to the lair.

As they lay in the dark, wrapped in their blankets of spider silk, on thick mattresses of pleasantly scented foxtail grass -- which, unlike the esparto of the desert, was yielding and springy -- Veig tried to argue them into staying there for another week.

Niall and Veig lifted the whole bed, with its mattress of esparto grass, and carefully transferred it to the silk-lined interior.

They laid what was left of Diocles on an old esparto mat in the street.

Bar was on Southwest Alder, a narrow building of chocolate-brown brick wedged between Esparto fashion store and a glossy new marble-front bank.

I mean, you have bad luck because you fell in love with a soul of esparto grass and a heart of oak.

Rags and the Chemical Control of Rag Boiling -- Esparto Boiling -- Wood Boiling -- Testing Spent Liquors and Recovered Ash -- Experimental Tests with Raw Fibrous Materials -- Boiling in Autoclaves -- Bleaching and making up Hand Sheets -- Examination of Sulphite Liquors -- Estimation of Moisture in Pulp and Half-stuff -- Recommendations of the British Wood Pulp Association.

He was livid, a sad expression on his face, trying to cover the hole in his throat with a plug made of esparto grass.

No bed of leaves or esparto grass had ever felt more luxuriously comfortable.

Mediterranean ships were built of fir or cedar, with some oak, and the cordage was typically hemp or flax (although the Egyptians often used papyrus, and the Spaniards favored esparto grass).

In the harbour 63 transports were captured, some of them with their cargoes of corn and arms, as well as bronze, iron, sails, esparto grass, and other articles required for the fleet.