One thing was certain; they did not announce to each other their business, but looked at their watches and tapped their boots, and knitted their brows as if each one of them had come on very particular business, which had nothing to do with the affairs of the general crowd.

The Ursuline nuns knitted long stockings for the bare-legged Highlanders when the winter came on, and presented each Scottish officer with an embroidered St Andrew's Cross on the 30th of November, St Andrew's Day.

"I would like to see Maud," Mrs. Harris said one night to Shaw as she sat knitting a sock for him beside their cheerful fireside.

What good would it do?" "Why, you could knit your mother a pair of stockings.

Now, Sophos, now bethink thyself, how thou May'st win her father's will to knit this happy knot.

She ceased her chatter, knitted her eyebrows, then raised them, opened her lips and with the vivacity of a Parisienne left her admirers to hurl herself like a torpedo upon our critic.

Livius rose from the couch and came and stood before her, knitting his fingers together behind his back, compelling himself to smile.

It knits every thing.

I got knitting needles and cards my own mother had and used.

The Industrial Revolution of the past century, steam-power and electricity, the railway and the telegraph, have knit mankind together, and made the world one place.

Yet in these bereavements also she charged not God foolishly, but took them as a part of the discipline wisely ordered to knit her soul in closer union to Him.

Soften the heart of the young man; show him how ill he has done; and knit their hearts to each other as thou didst the hearts of David and Jonathan.

The wife and her daughters manufactured the clothing, from dressing the flax and carding the wool to cutting the cloth; knit the mittens and socks; and during the winter made straw bonnets to sell in the towns in the spring.

Well, when that was done, Lurindy came down, and I had to get her something to eat, and then she went up-stairs, and mother took her turn for some sleep; and there were the creatures to feed again, and what with putting on, and taking off, and tending fires, and doing errands, and the night's milking, and clearing the paths, I didn't knit another stitch that day, and was glad enough, when night came, to go to bed myself.

"Macbeth does murder , the innocent , that knits up the ravel'd sleave of care.

What I had on my mind, Mr. Morley, was this: I have knitted this comforter for you; at least, it's for you if you would like it.

The old witch sat by a table with a lamp, knitting a splendid cloak of gold and green for a king that had been dead a thousand years.

Men and boys all wore knitted woolen caps, with ear flaps, which they seldom remove either day or night.

"I'll knit lace for them, and they'll look real dressy; toilet soap, sponge and nailbrushthat's for your bath, George; you haven't been taking them as often as you should, or the hoops wouldn't have come off your tub.

"How many rows of my stocking I could have knitted.

In the midst of this illumination she sat, very stiff and still, in the angular elk-hide-covered chair, and knitted her hands together on her knee.

For various reasons the proposed campaign fell through, but the mere planning of it shows the feeling that was, at the bottom, the strongest of those which knit together the Franklin men and the Georgians.

* Hatred And dangerthe two hands that tightest grasp Each otherthe two cords that soonest knit A fast and stubborn tie: your true love-knot Is nothing to it.

" "And, at evening | when his | comrades | dance be | -fore their | master's | door, Folding arms and | knitting | forehead, | stands he | silent | ever |-more.

Our cloaks were of a twilled material, garnet, with a white thread interwoven, and we had knitted hoods to match.