Looms

Examples

• Mr. Tulkinghorn, an indistinct form against the dark street now dotted with lamps, looms in my Lady's view, bigger and blacker than before. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Of much that looms large in our national histories we cannot tell anything. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Her picturesque form no longer looms above the desert of the Dead Sea to remind the tourist of the doom that fell upon the lost cities. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This adaptation of the needle to looms has placed ribbons within the reach of the poor as well as the rich girl. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is along these lines that the inventors have wrought their marvellous changes from hand to power looms. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Old six-foot Snodgrass looms on high, With elephantine grace, And beams upon the company, With brown and jovial face. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Steam was applied to looms by William Horrocks (British patent No. 2,699, 1803). Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• We just take our hands fro' our looms, and say, Yo' may clem us, but yo'll not put upon us, my masters! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• From 1830 to 1842 there were brought out the fancy looms of Crompton, the application of the Jacquard mechanism to the lace frame by Draper, and the carpet looms of Bigelow. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It looms larger in perspective. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The looms, and wheels, and Hands all out of gear for an hour. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• His invention was not, in fact, a new form of loom, but rather an attachment to a loom which was universally applicable to all looms. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Edward Cartwright, who, turning his attention to _looms_, invented the first loom run by machinery, the _first power loom_, 1784-85. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It still looms in my memory with undiminished grandeur. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Looms and tools and printing-presses were everywhere being liberated from the slow toil of man-power. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He had been brought up in surroundings that naturally impressed him with the value of looms and new appliances for spinning and weaving. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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