Weaver

Examples

• The Antinomian weaver? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We have seen that Pasteur was the son of a tanner, Priestley of a cloth-maker, Dalton of a weaver, Lambert of a tailor, Kant of a saddler, Watt of a shipbuilde r, Smith of a farmer. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But the greatest curiosity, upon which the fate of the island depends, is a loadstone of a prodigious size, in shape resembling a weaver's shuttle. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• There must be first a husbandman, secondly a builder, thirdly a weaver, to which may be added a cobbler. Plato. The Republic.
• This gave a much more rapid action than could be obtained by hand-throwing, and enabled one weaver to do the work of two or three. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A country weaver, who cultivates a small farm, must loose a good deal of time in passing from his loom to the field, and from the field to his loom. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A journeyman weaver earns less than a journeyman smith. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He was a good power-loom weaver, and a man of perfect integrity. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• In the price of linen we must add to this price the wages of the flax-dresser, of the spinner, of the weaver, of the bleacher, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Neither will the builder make his tools--and he too needs many; and in like manner the weaver and shoemaker. Plato. The Republic.
• For instance, how would you like to meet Michael Hartley, that mad Calvinist and Jacobin weaver? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• That's what folk call fine and honourable in a soldier, and why not in a poor weaver-chap? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• 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.
• In Norfolk and Norwich, no master weaver can have more than two apprentices, under pain of forfeiting five pounds a-month to the king. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Thus in most places, take the year round, a journeyman tailor earns less than a journeyman weaver. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• 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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