At night, or when it rained, Mary hung a piece of hessian over the window.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
It was a memorial put up by hessian troops in July 1915 to the honour of men taken on the field of honour.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
Their high collars and pantaloons and hessian boots, all came in for notice.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn