It knits every thing.

[He knits his brows and matures his scheme.]

And so, if we will not acknowledge our brotherhood by any other teaching, He knits us together by the brotherhood of common suffering.

"Mrs. , who has just entered her 192nd year, reads without glasses, writes to her grandchildren fighting abroad, and knits articles for King George's Military Hospital.

Sir PHILIP SIDNEY, in his Defence of Poesy, gives us one, which, in my opinion, is not the least considerable: I mean, the Help it brings to Memory; which Rhyme so knits up by the Affinity of Sounds, that by remembering the last word in one line, we often call to mind both the verses.

Does a thousand words a minute and knits a jumper at the same time.

Fin de Siecle Girl.~ She studies Henrik Ibsen "to cultivate her mind," And reads Shakespeare and Browning through and through; Meanwhile she knits her browsit is the only kind Of fancy work this modern maid can do.

If some unhappy suggestion shall either disjoint his affection or break it, it soon knits again, and grows the stronger by that stress.

As Love is the most delightful Passion, Pity is nothing else but Love softned by a degree of Sorrow: In short, it is a kind of pleasing Anguish, as well as generous Sympathy, that knits Mankind together, and blends them in the same common Lot.

Some untoward circumstance comes unawares on the perfect creature: a burst of temper knits the brow, inflames the eye, inflates the nostril, gnashes the teeth, and converts the angel into a storming fury.

The critick's purpose is to conquer, the author only hopes to escape; the critick therefore knits his brow, and raises his voice, and rejoices whenever he perceives any tokens of pain excited by the pressure of his assertions, or the point of his sarcasms.

Take for example: Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care.

Enough for him the silent grasp That knits us hand in hand, And he the bracelet's radiant clasp That locks our circling band. Strength to his hours of manly toil!

Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion, and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.

'Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care!'

But when the common enemy lies vanquish'd, Who knits together our new friendship then?

Hand knits for service men.

Hand knits for service men.

My friend knits, and draws landscapes on the backs of cards; and I have established a correspondence with an old bookseller, who sends me treatises of chemistry and fortifications, instead of poetry and memoirs.

Sir Philip Sidney, in his Defence of Poesy, gives us one, which, in my opinion, is not the least considerable; I mean the help it brings to memory, which rhyme so knits up, by the affinity of sounds, that, by remembering the last word in one line, we often call to mind both the verses.

She embroiders, crochets, knits and quilts without the aid of glasses.

After the morning prayer the Princess knits, sews, presses her linen, studies her catechism, and, alas!

[She knits.] SONNSFELD.

The sweet attraction which knits the sons of Virginia to the Treasury has lost none of its controlling force.

Her brow knits until her dark eyebrows almost meet"very little.

" Another variation of the same adage in Kent is, "A plum year, a dumb year," and, "Many nits, many pits," implying that the abundance of nuts in the autumn indicates the "pits" or graves of those who shall succumb to the hard and inclement weather of winter; but, on the other hand, "A cherry year, a merry year."

Adj. dead, lifeless; deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct; late, gone, no more; exanimate^, inanimate; out of the world, taken off, released; departed this life &c v.; dead and gone; dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost^, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits; launched into eternity, gone to one's eternal reward, gone to meet one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead.

they are Mures, Muscae, culices prae se, nits and flies compared to his inexorable and supercilious, eminent and arrogant worship: though indeed they be far before him.

Several terriers with good coats are apt to grow long hair very thickly round the neck and ears, and unless this is removed when it gets old, the neck and ears are liable to become infested with objectionable little slate-coloured nits, which will never be found as long as the coat is kept down when necessary.

The lice are hatched from nits, which we find clinging in rows, and very tenaciously too, to the hairs.

The oil dressing will not kill the nits, so that vinegar must be used.

It was, after a', a queer sicht, and, as may be supposed, I drew a haill crowd of bairns after me, bawling out, "Here's Willy M'Gee's monkey," and gi'eing him nits and gingerbread, and makin' as muckle of the cratur as could be; for Nosey was a great favourite in the town, and everbody likit him for his droll tricks, and the way he used to girn, and dance, and tumble ower his head, to amuse them.

Den I weaves nits and lice.

It mas sort of speckeldy all overdat's why dey called it nits and lice.

The animal or object which appears to the boy, or man, who is trying to dream for power, is, as has been said, regarded thereafter as his secret helper, his medicine, and is usually called his dream (Nits-o'-kan).