46 Verbs to Use for the Word looming

Something in the atmosphere must have made itself felt, for no sound could have penetrated the din of the weaving room; yet some of the women left their looms and came running in behind the two pale, scared little brothers, to add their shrieks to the general clamour.

"You look stout and hearty; if you learn to weave as fast as you ort, and git so you can tend five or six looms, I'll bet you git a husband," he remarked in a burst of generosity.

And he expects soon to erect a large building in which he can set up the new looms and accommodate a much larger number of pupils.

On the day after the rescue they sighted Cape Breton in the south, and soon running swiftly before an easterly wind, saw the loom of the east end of Anticosti.

These statements have been confidently made at public meetings in the State House of Massachusetts, and it is understood that a mill containing one hundred looms, half of which are now in operation, has been erected at Roxbury, under the direction of gentlemen who are familiar with the manufacture.

Their webs are only a span in width, as they have not sufficient art to construct and use wider looms; so that they are obliged to sew five, six, or more of these webs together, when it is required to make any large piece of work.

Mary asked herself as she worked the looms in the factory.

No morebut hasten to thy tasks at home, There guide the spindle, and direct the loom; Me glory summons to the martial scene, The field of combat is the sphere for men.

Minerva, skilful goddess, train'd the maid To twirl the spindle by the twisting thread, To fix the loom, instruct the reeds to part, Cross the long weft, and close the web with art: An useful gift; but what profuse expense, What world of fashions, took its rise from hence!

A race which invented the loom now invents nothing but grievances.

As we pause in our study, we may hear in the twentieth-century song of Alfred Noyes, the echo of the music from the loom of the Infinite Weaver: "Under the breath of laughter, deep in the tide of tears, I hear the loom of the Weaver that weaves the Web of Years.

that for him the grave could hide The empty loom, cold hearth, and silent wheel, And tears that flowed for ills which patience might 270 not heal.

38 illustrates a loom at work on this particular branch of the trade.

and yet you Would join this loom unto unlawful twists.

You learn your looms if you want to git weddedand

He repeatedly tells his mother to mind her own businessthe loom and the distaffleaving words for men; and each time the poet recommends this rude, unfilial speech as a "wise saying" which the queen humbly "lays to heart."

"But, cousin John would not trifle with me on such a subject, father," Eve continued; "he knows how much I prize all those little heir-looms that are connected with the affections.

The Kh[=a]n received the valued heir-loom with all due respect, and kissing the weapon sheathed and fixed it firmly to his belt.

The principal industry is the manufacture of fabrics of sinamay, pina, jusi, etc., requiring over 30,000 looms.

It chanced one stray seed of Immensity fell into the pretty, petty village of Cheasing Eyebright in Kent, and from the story of its queer germination there and of the tragic futility that ensued, one may attemptfollowing one thread, as it wereto show the direction in which the whole great interwoven fabric of the thing rolled off the loom of Time.

There is not much in common between the world as it appears to Sarah Ellen, who "runs" four looms in a Lancashire weaving shed during fifty-one weeks in the year, and my Lady Broadacres, who suns herself in Mayfair.

This same gentleman has also adapted his looms to the making hoses for water, of which he can complete 1000 feet a day by the experimental loom now in use, and it is more than probable these hoses will entirely supersede the use of the leather ones, being little more than one-tenth the price, and not requiring any expense to keep in order.

We would fain imagine the shrunken-cheeked factory-girl singing to herself a happy burthen, as she shifts the loom,the burthen of her life, and fain believe that the voice was innocent as the sky-lark's.

He had to come whoam ill fro' his wark; an' then they shopped his looms, (gave his work to somebody else,) an' he couldn't get 'em back again.

A blossom born at day's first light, And fading with the earliest night; Nor stranger's step, nor shrieking loom, Shall scare the warbler from the tomb'" * * *

46 Verbs to Use for the Word  looming