Woollen

Examples

• She was dressed in blue, with woollen yellow stockings, like the Bluecoat boys. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The prohibition of the importation of foreign woollen is equally favourable to the woollen manufacturers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Ford's was the principal woollen-draper, linen-draper, and haberdasher's shop united; the shop first in size and fashion in the place. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I just ran in, she said, with these little stockings for the boy,--three pair, nice, warm woollen ones. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I was forced to wrap myself up in my greatcoat and woollen trousers; everything else about the bed was shockingly dirty. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Spanish wool was the material, not of the first woollen manufacture of England, but of the first that was fit for distant sale. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He sat down, and I noticed that he had a woollen comforter around his neck with his coat buttoned closely. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I wish the woollen stockings were better looked to! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Clean collars were in voguethe ordinary dingy woollen classe-dress was exchanged for something lighter and clearer. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• His men cleanse their fingers on their woollen aprons before presuming to touch their foreheads to Mr Boffin or Lady. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But as the demand for most sorts of plain linen and woollen cloth is pretty uniform, so is likewise the price. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• 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.
• The woollen industry followed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The smith erects some sort of iron, the weaver some sort of linen or woollen manufactory. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I will _not_ commit it to your work-table to be smothered in piles of woollen hose. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The land and labour of Great Britain produce generally more corn, woollens, and hardware, than the demand of the home market requires. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The government of that country, at that time under the dominion of Spain, prohibited, in return, the importation of English woollens. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The price of fine woollens, too, though not quite so extravagant, seems, however, to have been much above that of the present times. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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