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When he had told her, he fell asleep with his head in her lap, and she wove a spell nine times around his head, and the tower became the strongest in the world. Some of the many legends place this tower in the forest of Broceliande; while others transport it afar to a magic island, where Merlin dwells with his nine bards, and where Vivian alone can come or go through the magic walls.
Her hair of burning gold was dressed in curls a la mouton, as Mrs March expressed it, and a string of pearls wove through the rich tresses. But 'tis useless to describe beauty. As well dry a rose in a book and look for bloom and dew.
Then there came a time when some slight excuse offered, and Leslie took up the shuttle for forty-eight hours, and wove his bit in the pattern. It happened to be on the same evening as Dick's return to the old house. He was a little too confident, a trifle too easy to Nina. "Has the handle of my suitcase been repaired yet?" he asked. He was lighting a cigarette at the time. "Yes. Why?"
The supply of clothing we brought with us had lasted until now more than two years and we had sowed some flax and raised sheep so that we began to get material of our own raising, from which to manufacture some more. Mother and sister spun some nice yarn, both woolen and linen, and father had a loom made on which mother wove it up into cloth, and we were soon dressed up in bran new clothes again.
I could have taken him for our Lord Sintram but a bright, bright morning cloud floats so close before him, and throws over him such a clear light, that one could fancy red flowers were showered down upon him. Besides, his horse has a wreath of red leaves on his head, which was never a custom of the son of our dead lord." "Just such a one," replied another, "I wove for him yesterday.
Finally, take the editorial profession, the writers for the press, who on the whole represented the most influential branch of the learned class. The great nineteenth-century newspaper was a capitalistic enterprise as purely commercial in its principle as a woolen factory, and the editors were no more allowed to write their own opinions than the weavers to choose the patterns they wove.
'I am come at once, said the widow breathlessly, as soon as they were in the lane, 'for it is so exciting that I can't keep it. I must tell it to somebody, if only a bird, or a cat, or a garden snail. 'What is it? asked her companion. 'I've pulled grass from my husband's grave to cure it wove the blades into true lover's knots; took off my shoes upon the sod; but, avast, my shipmate,
All the little hands were forward to help; some threw out flossy bits of cotton, for which, we grieve to say, Charlie had cut a hole in the crib quilt, and some threw out bits of thread and yarn, and Allie ravelled out a considerable piece from one of her garters, which she threw out as a contribution; and they exulted in seeing the skill with which the little builders wove everything in.
Another love In its lone woof began to twine; But oh! the golden thread was wove Between my sister's heart and mine." Half an hour later, uncle Ro and myself were seated at table, eating our dinners as quietly as if we were in an inn. The footman who had set the table was an old family servant, one who had performed the same sort of duty in that very house for a quarter of a century.
Now of cose she wasn't put upon the block and sold. She was the house woman and spin and wove. After they sold her my father run off. Oh sure, they caught him and I know old mistress said, 'Now, Jacob, if you want to go where Lydia is, you can go. So they sold him near her. "I stayed with the Fosters till peace was declared and ever'thing was declared free. Then my father come after me.
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