"Woollen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... whate'er gives to a housewife delight. Fine and woollen coverlets, wrought with an ...
— The Poems of Goethe • Goethe
... and the workmen in the woollen mills in America see how prices of supplies for labouring men are going up and suppose they agree to work as hard as they can? Suppose the wool workers of the world want cheap bread. The flour mill workers ...
— Crowds - A Moving-Picture of Democracy • Gerald Stanley Lee
... head. The face is left uncovered, and I saw some very lovely ones smiling forth from the black drapery. Rich people wear these upper garments of silk; the cloaks of the poorer classes are made of merino or cheap woollen stuffs. ...
— A Visit to the Holy Land • Ida Pfeiffer
... the first time since he had first gone to sleep on the altar stone, Quentin slept apart from it. He lay on a wooden couch strewn with soft bear-skins, and a woollen coverlet was laid over him. And ...
— The Magic World • Edith Nesbit
... 400,000l. 6thly. The quality of your imports must be considered as well as the quantity. To state the whole of the foreign import as loss, is exceedingly absurd. All the iron, hemp, flax, cotton, Spanish wool, raw silk, woollen and linen-yarn, which we import, are by no means to be considered as the matter of a merely luxurious consumption; which is the idea too generally and loosely annexed to our import article. These ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
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