Woven

Examples

• Party speeches were delivered, which clothed the question in cant, and veiled its simple meaning in a woven wind of words. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I had woven underwear and I did not think I would catch cold if I kept moving. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• One purpose to which it was suggested this coloured photographic process is applicable, is printing on woven fabrics, the action of light serving as a mordant to fix the colours. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I had my chance, and, starting from that point, I have woven my net round him until now it is all ready to close. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• There were eight children, and their shoes were cobbled, their clothes woven, their very beds and chairs and tables built at home. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Three more birthdays of little Lucie had been woven by the golden thread into the peaceful tissue of the life of her home. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Ever since that important new arrival in Middlemarch she had woven a little future, of which something like this scene was the necessary beginning. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In speech he had woven a net to bind his race together, but also it was a net about his feet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Gerty Farish was not a close enough reader of character to disentangle the mixed threads of which Lily's philanthropy was woven. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Moreover, Marx put forth the claim that he had made socialism scientific--had shown that it was woven into the texture of natural phenomena. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This population was largely industrial, and her woven goods were universally famous. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been woven round him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Of millions of such stitches in each of these 200 generations is the fabric of this history woven. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the line of textiles, cotton and silk threads in great variety, with woven goods of all kinds from cheese-cloth to silk plush. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Matting is woven; wire, cane, straw, spun glass; in fact, everything that can be woven by hand into useful articles now finds its especially constructed machine for weaving it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

Edited by Gillian