Besides those formed of workers in separate trades, such as shoe-workers, mill operatives, and garment-workers, there were locals, like the federal labor unions of today, in which those engaged in various occupations would unite together.

This enormous increase, more than doubling the entire union strength among women, is mainly due to the successful organization in the garment trades in New York City.

Garment center.

[Footnote 3: 'fit us exactly, like a garment cut to our shape,' or perhaps 'shape' is used for intent, purpose.

"Seventy thousand Christian warriors, All in snowy garments dight, Led by one of giant stature, Mounted on a charger white; "On his breast a cross of crimson, In his hand a sword of fire, With it hew'd he down the Paynims, As they fled, with slaughter dire.

Nor us, though Romane, Lais will refuse; To Corinth any man may goe; no maske, No envious garment doth those beauties hide, Which Nature made so moving to be spide.

As the host his song had ended with a last resounding twang, And within the harp's dumb chambers murmurous echoes faintly rang, Up then sprang the guest, and straightway downward rolled his garment dun There stood Harold, the avenger, Burislav's undaunted son.

O, do not drink these tears thus greedily, Yet let the morning's mourning garment dwell Upon the sad earth.

Each wore a short rapier at his girdle, and he fancied he could trace beneath the folds of their garments evidence of the presence of the clumsy fire-arms in use at that period.

"Mr. Ash give me a lot of scraps from his garment factory.

Jake Smith is the only one of our party who has returned with a garment fit to wear in the society of ladies.

At the first turn out of Tangier, Europe and the European disappear, and as soon as the motor begins to dip and rise over the arid little hills beyond the last gardens one is sure that every figure on the road will be picturesque instead of prosaic, every garment graceful instead of grotesque.

And in the end, I came to agreement with the Maid, that we wear the garment hour by hour, in turn; and she to wear it the first hour

Associated with the agriculture there are usually a few imperfectly specialised tradesmen, a smith, a garment-maker perhaps, a basket-maker or potter, who group about the church or temple.

The trade, like other branches of garment-making, is largely in the hands of Jewish employers.

At their head Arionor is it G.D.?in his singing garments marcheth singly, with harp in hand, and votive garland, which Machaon (or Dr. Hawes) snatcheth straight, intending to suspend it to the stern God of Sea.

Then thou, God's pulse, wilt cease to beat; But His heart will still beat on, Weaving another garment meet, If needful for his son; And sights more glorious, to complete The web thou hast begun.

Most of Isabel's time was spent in constructing garments by the aid of paper-patterns which were given away by some periodical; admirable patterns, which, in skilful hands, no doubt, produced the most useful results; but Isabel was too stupid to avail herself of their valuable aid, and must always add something which rendered the garment outré and vulgar.

I listened, and I knew the sound, And the trade that he was plying; For backwards, forwards, bound and bound, 'Twas a shuttle, flying, flying; Weaving ever life's garment round, Till the weft go out with sighing.

They said that a foreign woman in a downtown garment shop could earn seven dollars a week, whereas an American girl in a fashionable store received about four dollars and a half.

The good-humored old woman to whom the humble mansion belonged, had kindled a bundle of twigs in the large fire-place; and before the cheerful blaze the young girls and their cavaliers were soon seated, their wet garments smoking, and the owners of the garments laughing.

They rise up and their garments wave, Dimly and spectral, as they rise, With the light of another world in their eyes!

And now he believed in the ghost all night, And believed in the day as well; And he vowed, with a sorrowing tearful might, All she asked, whate'er befel, If she came to his room, in her garment white, Once more at the midnight knell.

" "Strange how the thickness of a garment alters our views of things in general," I remarked.

How can sorrow from my heart In a case like this depart? Color green the robe displays; Lower garment yellow's blaze.