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Updated: June 19, 2025
But perhaps the most fitting similitude of her life in Wayland was the quiet flow of the river, whose gentle curves make green her meadows, but whose powerful energy, joining the floods from distant mountains, moves, with resistless might, the busy shuttles of a hundred mills.
It seemed as if she would never tire of watching the rhythmic rise and fall of the harnesses, each rapid movement making a V in the warp, within the angle of which the tiny shuttles darted to and fro, to and fro, carrying the thread that filled the cloth with a swiftness so great the eye could scarcely follow it; to be caught on the other side when the angle closed, and flung back, and back again!
The women are the dyers, the boys the weavers, the men, in general, lookers on. The loom and shuttles are on the same principle as the common English loom, but the warp is only four inches wide. They also manufacture earthen-ware, but prefer that of Europe, which they obtain from Badagry.
He could only watch and wait until it was over. So he watched and waited. Unlike the short-time fury of a space battle, the reduction of a planet took days of steady pounding. When it was over, the blaster-boats of the Kerothi fleet and the shuttles from the great battle cruisers landed on Houston's World and took possession of the planet.
First, for auld langsyne; second, for the sake of the auld wife ayont the fire at Stuckavrallachan, that made some mixture of our bluids, to my own proper shame be it spoken! that has a cousin wi' accounts, and yarn winnles, and looms and shuttles, like a mere mechanical person; and lastly, Bailie, because if I saw a sign o' your betraying me, I would plaster that wa' with your harns ere the hand of man could rescue you!"
Would she ever get a chance to be a missionary or must she give up that dream? "Mary, Mary," called Mrs. Slessor, "it's five o'clock. Time to get up and go to work." "Ho, hum," said Mary, "I'm still tired, but I'll get right up. I don't want to be late!" At six o'clock in the morning Mary was at work. She had to tend to the shuttles on the weaving machines.
There was the old loom, with its harnesses, its reed, and its shuttles; the flax-wheel and the distaff, forming a quaint setting, but representing a past age and the primitive habits of the people who used them. There was Hanz and Angeline on one side. Time was writing its record in deep lines on their faces, and whitening their gray hairs.
At last, however, after repeated trials, and by guiding the seam with laborious care, I succeeded in completing one garment without disaster; and I had just started another, when crash! flying shuttles and spinning bobbins and swirling wheels came to a standstill. My sewing-machine was silent, as were all the others in the great workroom. Something had happened to the dynamo.
Those eyes which were lately devoutly cast up to heaven, or with greater humility bent solemnly upon earth, were now sharply and alertly darting their glances through shuttles, and trunks, and drawers, and cabinets, and all the odd corners of an old maiden lady's repositories. Nor was their search without interest, though they did not find the will of which they were in quest.
It is all as God wills. We are but shuttles in the web of this tangled life." "But tell me, what does she now? How looks her dear face?" Ridgar was silent a moment, and McElroy repeated his question, with his face still turned away: "Does she pass among them, the vipers? Does she seem to care for life at all now?" "Lad," said Ridgar gently, "I know not, for she is gone." "Gone!"
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