Roving

Examples

• You are that restless and that roving-- Yes! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It covered carding, drawing, and roving machines for use in preparing silk, cotton, flax, and wool for spinning. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• You should not be roving about now; it looks very ill. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• His friend, Milt Adams, went West with quenchless zest for that kind of roving life and aimless adventure of which the serious minded Edison had already had more than enough. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• You are a strange child, Miss Jane, she said, as she looked down at me; a little roving, solitary thing: and you are going to school, I suppose? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I'm roving about so, it's impossible to be regular, you know. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The halt in that roving, restless life was inexpressibly soothing and pleasant to her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• As the yarns still need to be twisted, they are passed through a roving frame similar to a drawing frame. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• An ingenious device connected with the winding of the roving yarns upon bobbins may be here noted. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But roving has never been favorable to the formation of steady habits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• What are you roving about at this time of night for? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Not that this would have worried him much, anyway--he was a mighty free and easy, roving, devil-may-care sort of person, was my uncle, gentlemen. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• For this purpose the spindles were set upright at the end of the frame, and the rovings or strips of untwisted fibre were carried on bobbins on the inclined frame. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The rovings at one end were attached to the spindles and their opposite portions held together and drawn out by a clasp held in the hand. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The rovings of cotton went under a bar-clasp that took the place of the spinner’s finger and thumb. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The workman drew out the rovings by moving the clasp back and forth, and at the same time turned the crank with his right hand to rotate the spindles. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The rovings extended from these bobbins to a reciprocating clasp held in the left hand of the workman, and thence extended to the spindles at the end of the frame. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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