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Updated: September 7, 2025
She sat in a rocking-chair, but did not rock, her fingers busy with the knitting-needles, her feet planted squarely on the home-made hassock at her feet. The old man waited for a minute in a painful silence, then he turned slowly round, and, with tight-pressed lips, looked at the woman in the rocking-chair.
'Can you row? the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. 'Yes, a little but not on land and not with needles Alice was beginning to say, when suddenly the needles turned into oars in her hands, and she found they were in a little boat, gliding along between banks: so there was nothing for it but to do her best.
No image of her remains in my mind so clear as that in which I see her sitting by the fireside in the dim light of our single home-made candle, her knitting-needles flying and her lips moving in prayer, while the tears stole down her cheeks in the fervency of her devotion, until she felt that she was being noticed, when the windows of her soul were suddenly shut, and she turned to some subject of common interest, as if ashamed to be discovered praying, for she permitted herself no ostentation of devotion, but reserved it for her nights and solitary moments.
Reaching a two-storied stone box of a house, she dropped behind at the doorway, leaving me to confront a hard-faced woman in a white jacket, with a graceful head-dress half-hiding her black hair. In one hand she had a partly finished stocking with knitting-needles in it; in the other she held a candle in a quaintly made iron candlestick.
She has brought her knitting no frivolous fancy knitting, but a substantial woollen stocking; the click-click of her knitting-needles is the running accompaniment to all her conversation, and in her utmost enjoyment of spoiling a friend's self-satisfaction, she was never known to spoil a stocking. Mrs. Patten does not admire this excessive click-clicking activity.
Laura rose. She forced down her agitation made herself speak plainly. "Papa taught me it was life and I believe him." The old clock in the farther corner of the room struck a quarter to ten the hour of prayers. The two priests on the farther side of the room stood up, and Augustina sheathed her knitting-needles. Laura turned towards Helbeck and coldly held out her little hand.
But weaving machines can do this work now with far greater precision; and while stockings are so good and so cheap, is it worth while for our girls to spend long hours in the slow process of looping stitches into each other? Would not the same time be better spent in the open air and the sunshine, than in-doors, with cramped fingers and bent back over the knitting-needles?
I always turn up, therefore I am a bad shilling! Sound logic that, eh, May?" "I'm glad to see you, dear Shank," said careworn Mrs Leather, laying her knitting-needles on the table; "you know I'm always glad to see you, but I'm naturally surprised, for this visit is out of your regular time." "Has anything happened?" asked May anxiously.
Instances might be cited where a portion of the shoe was carried away without serious injury to the wearer, and where knitting-needles, scissors and other household implements have been struck, sometimes conducting the current to the person with fatal effect. During a thunderstorm in France in July, 1858, a peasant-woman, on her way home from the fields, was struck down by lightning.
All this time your eyes are heavy, and you look every other minute as if just going to cry. What is it all about?" This was a long speech for aunt Hannah, and it made Mary start and blush like a guilty thing, especially as it followed a protracted silence that had been disturbed only by the click of aunt Hannah's knitting-needles. "Matter with me, aunt? Nothing. What makes you think of me at all?"
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