The training of the hand is now being laboriously woven into it; but, even when that is accomplished, we shall still be working with imperfect aims, for the stress laid upon heart-culture is as yet in no way commensurate with its gravity.

But the wrinkles of some old people are characterless; running in all directions, appearing as though a finely-woven cloth had left its impress upon the face, revealing a life aimless and idle, or distracted by a thousand cross-purposes and weaknesses.

He wore none of the distinguishing insignia that practising physicians usually favored; the studied plainness of his attire was a notable contrast to the costly magnificence of Pertinax, whose double-purple-bordered and fringed toga, beautifully woven linen and jeweled ornaments seemed chosen to combine suggestions of the many public offices he had succeeded to.

Those of limited means wear a loosely woven hair or woollen over-robe in lieu of their usual outdoor garment, resembling tufted cotton.

Soon the big snowflakes were whirling in the air, busily weaving a soft white winding-sheet for the autumn which was passing away.

Mr. Fisher pertinently says, "Two great facts were plainly visible through the flimsy web of attorney logic and quibbling technicality, not very ingeniously woven to conceal them.

Another had in his hand a richly woven bag, and it seemed to be heavy, as indeed it was, for it was full of gold.

I found the fabric of my old and taught opinions giving way in many fresh places, and I never allowed it to fall to pieces, but was incessantly occupied in weaving it anew.

Collateral events are so artfully woven into the contexture of his principal story, that they cannot be disjoined without leaving it lacerated and broken.

It was made of a large square of coarsely woven cotton cloth, with a hole in the middle for his head.

With love the finest particle is rife, And deftly woven in the woof of life, In throbbing dust or clasping grains of sand, In globes of glistening dew that shining stand On each pure petal, Love's own legacies Of flowering verdure, Earth's sweet panoplies; By love those atoms sip their sweets and pass To other atoms, join and keep the mass With mighty forces moving through all space, Tis thus on earth all life has found its place.

They worked steadily and methodically, gradually weaving a net about the Germans, who were living miserably in their underground positions within the great coal center.

Perhaps the basest of all uses to which theory has been put in this science was in a well-known American work, where facts and fancies in Ethnology were industriously woven together to form another withe about the limbs of the wretched African slave.

Its fibers are so lightly woven that they make innumerable meshes enclosing air, which is one of the best of non-conductors.

And if the peoples go on piling up debt, as they must if they are to go on piling up armaments (as Mr. Chesterton wants them to), giving the best of their attention and emotion to sheer physical conflict, instead of to organisation and understanding, they will merely weave that web of debt and usury still closer; it will load us more heavily and strangle us to a still greater extent.

" The spider turned him round about, And went into his den, For well he knew the silly fly Would soon be back again; So he wove a subtle web In a little corner sly, And set his table ready To dine upon the fly.

Tyrannic act, incendiary speech, Recklessly rend the subtly woven tissue That binds Society's organs each to each.

But here a mean Observe, nor the large hound prefer, of size Gigantic; he in the thick-woven covert Painfully tugs, or in the thorny brake Torn and embarrassed bleeds: but if too small, 260 The pigmy brood in every furrow swims; Moiled in the clogging clay, panting they lag Behind inglorious; or else shivering creep Benumbed and faint beneath the sheltering thorn.

They are narrow, thickly-woven silk scarves, six varas in length, with oblique white stripes on a dark-brown ground.

Huge green-bellied spiders oscillated backwards and forwards in their strong, systematically woven webs.

The gray crowd makes way for a group of musicians in brilliant caftans, and following them comes a long file of women with uncovered faces and bejewelled necks, balancing on their heads the dishes the guests have sent to the feastkouskous, sweet creams and syrups, "gazelles' horns" of sugar and almondsin delicately woven baskets, each covered with several squares of bright gauze edged with gold.

Then there is frail Wilhelmina Musgravethat famed beauty whose two-hundred-year-old story all Lichfield knows, and no genealogist has ever cared to detaileternally weaving flowers about her shepherd hat.

It fell across the colored threads which were weaving diligently their work.

Then belowin the crowd, the autumn woods, the distant River of Death, towards which the procession movesa massing of blues and purples'his handpointingworked rapidly over the canvas; 'and here, some pale rose, black, emerald green, dimly woven inand lastly, the whites of the bride-maidens, and of the bride upon her biertowards which, of course, the whole construction mounts.

"But what is this mingling of threads to the great web of the universe, which is eternally being woven and unwoven, unaffected by the will of man?