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Receiving none, he presently subsided upon a stool hard by the spinning-wheel, and after watching its steady whirl for some moments said, "What a fine thread thou drawest, Priscilla." "'T is hardly stout enough to hang a man, and yet stout enough for my purposes, good John." "Wilt weave it on Master Allerton's loom when 't is done?"
Some one said to me lately, 'La Falourdel, don't use your spinning-wheel too much in the evening; the devil is fond of combing the distaffs of old women with his horns. 'Tis certain that the surly monk who was round about the temple last year, now prowls in the City.
If, forgetful of earth, and trees, and the human stocks around me, I pour forth the language of the great song-masters, they grin at my insanity they hold me incapable of reason, and declare their ideas of what that is, by asking who knows most of the dairy, the cabbage-patch, the spinning-wheel, the darning-needle who can best wash Polly's or Patty's face and comb its head can chop up sausage-meat the finest make the lightest paste, and more economically dispense the sugar in serving up the tea! and these are what is expected of woman!
There was a music-box on the wall in which small figures moved about to a tinkling melody; there were charm strings of bright colored buttons, and a spinning-wheel, and a pair of bellows, all of which Mrs. Purdy explained at length. "Sister," said the man in the chair, feebly, "perhaps the children would like to see my menagerie." "Why, dearie, of course they would," said Mrs.
When your time comes, girl, your father will be more careful." Smiling tenderly, he passed his hand over the little cap which covered her thick, fair hair, and went out. Eva returned to her room and sat down at the spinning-wheel in the bow window, where Katterle had just drawn the curtains closely and lighted the hanging lamp.
An elaborate and circumstantial story tells of the sound being heard of a ghostly spinning-wheel, and when search was made by the officials a small sealed-up chamber was revealed, containing nothing but a spinning-wheel and a chair!
The sides of the room were about four feet in height; and a section of the apartment would have formed one half of an irregular octagon. In each side of the chamber there was a small door, opening into the space near the eaves of the house, which was used to store old trunks, old boxes, the disused spinning-wheel, and other lumber of this description.
On its being ascertained that this notice has been duly observed, a spinning-wheel, or some other convenient instrument, calculated to produce fire by friction, is set to work with the most furious earnestness by the unfortunate sufferer, and all who wish well to his cause.
That same evening, determined not to lose a moment of time, with well used spinning-wheel set up, she began to spin away as if she had been long settled, while the children played around her, glad once more to find themselves alone, and free from the gaze of strangers.
There was no answer; and, after waited a minute or two, she moved and resumed her former seat, the stray doves flew back to their customary promenade on the roof, and the drowsy whirr-whirr of the spinning-wheel murmured again its monotonous hum upon the air. "Come on, Phil," whispered Lorimer, determined not to be checked this time; "I feel perfectly wretched!
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