Weavers
[wi:vəz]
Examples
- This improvement put weaving ahead of spinning, and the weavers were continually calling on the spindlers for more weft yarns. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- If we was not in a muddle among ourseln, I should'n ha' been, by my own fellow weavers and workin' brothers, so mistook. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- What a comparison between the work of the virtuous Penelopes and the weavers of a century ago and to-day! William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And the employer of the weavers would require alike five per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is not by the sale of their work, but by that of the complete work of the weavers, that our great master manufacturers make their profits. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- If, in the linen manufacture, for example, the wages of the different working people, the flax-dressers, the spinners, the weavers, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He fell into suspicion,' said Louisa, 'with his fellow-weavers, because—he had made a promise not to be one of them. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It had crossed the Atlantic on a voyage of 4,000 miles in extent, laden with dyestuffs to supply the needs of American weavers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Half-a-dozen wool-combers, perhaps, are necessary to keep a thousand spinners and weavers at work. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I see nothing to succeed us but a race of weavers. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He was studying hard how to get up a machine to meet the weavers' demands for cotton yarns. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But the same number of spinners or weavers will every year produce the same, or very nearly the same, quantity of linen and woollen cloth. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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