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He continued at his trade of weaving and kept five or six looms going, making homespun cloth for the market and his neighbors.
In every limb he felt the shock which seemed to be propelling him several steps nearer the unknown fate that loomed in front of him.
The nagging memory of the previous night loomed up then, and he turned it over and over in his mind, examining it from all sides.
The weaver had just taken a finished web of blue flannel out of his loom, and sat smoking a long pipe on the bench outside.
She brought some pieces of striped flannel, the refuse of her father's loom, and dressed up the little one's wooden doll like a real Welshwoman.
The weaving operation begins when the warp, or the longitudinal threads of the piece to be woven, has been fixed in position on the loom.
The great bluffs characterizing the banks of the Missouri now loomed up, verdant and picturesque, after the genial showers and sunshine of spring.
Many of the weavers, we are told, are lodged in small nasty houses, for the most part crowded with looms and other utensils.
When the gate loomed before them through the vista of trees, Natalia guided her pony closer to Sargent, until he was forced to notice her.
Still another dyke, and then, beyond the third field, we sighted higher ground, above which loomed the dimly outlined tops of gigantic trees.
As Abner rejoined Mary, a sound of distant panting was heard, and a minute later the front of the engine loomed enormous through the fog.
Faintly discernible against the loom of the skyline was a great-coated sentry pacing up and down across the brink of the inclined plane.
Crouching low, he braced himself solidly, and as the figure loomed up before him, he threw a hard body block at the middle of it.
Behind this most highly intellectual young man loomed an uncouth, stumbling, one-eyed giant with an enormous head which he tended to hold on one side.
There is nothing to relieve the monotony of the scene save the increasing mass of ice as the glaciers loom higher above the stony horizon.
The roofs of the western towers themselves next converge towards the looming bulk of the central feature, to which they serve as pinnacles.
The low sound of oars came nearer, and gradually, out of the darkness, a boat loomed upon the water and grounded softly on the strand.
The formless hills loom round about, the roads and marks of civilization seem blotted out, it may be some absolute desert for aught that appears.
The home of the princess, with its carved stone walls, thick and massive, loomed majestically above the palm-thatched homes of the common people.
Indeed, self looms so large with them that it fills the entire foreground, and even obliterates all trace of background and middle distance.
As Dan's glance flashed along the barrel of his weapon, the figure of a man suddenly loomed as if the musket had been a telescope.
The workmen looked upon the new loom as fatal to their trade, and feared lest it should at once take the bread from their mouths.
Standing in the doorway was Randolph Shaw, his figure looming up like a monstrous, wavering genie in the uncertain light from the shaking lantern.
From this they manufacture ponchos, two of which, give sufficient work to a woman for a whole year, as they work without a loom.
Behind her over a rise came the plow, drawn by two stout horses, driven by a sturdy figure that loomed gigantic against the sky.
On it Shakespeare stood, driving a shuttle through the warp and woof of a weaver's loom and wove out for himself a name and fame immortal.
The flares of the brig, reflected in a faint loom upon the clouds, enabled them to make straight for the vessel across the banks.
The brigand ship, a hundred feet away, loomed dark and silent, a lifeless hulk, already empty of air, drained in the mad blast outward.
On April 1, 1801, the English fleet loomed ominously in the horizon, and it became evident that a fearful combat was close at hand.
The labor of the spade and of the loom, and the petty gains of trade, he contemptuously abandoned to men of a lower caste.
Although there are large quantities of seamless bags woven in the loom, the greater part of the cloth is woven in the ordinary way.
As he sprang back to his place beside his comrade, other sentinels joined them, and behind them loomed the tall form of Captain Clarke.
The brigand ship, a hundred feet away, loomed dark and silent, a lifeless bulk, already empty of air, drained in that mad blast outward.
We only weave and muse and listen for the voices of change as a world threads its events through the woof of time on our loom.
Asked the weavers, pointing to one of the looms and explaining the beautiful pattern and the colors which were not there to be seen.
In the soft lamplight, with one fine feature after another looming up into somber richness, it defied her not to pronounce it a triumph of taste.
That was a dazzling promise, which, although unspoken, yet loomed up plainly enough before the young man, and which he comprehended only too well.
There is the proud Shadow of a Roman Matron hovering about his cell, in those hours when the gallows loomed darkly in the future.
When suddenly the breakers loom up, and your frail vessel sinks, with you on board, and maybe your dear ones, dragged down with you.
His life, to the unseeing eyes around him, doubtless loomed prosperous and complete; to himself, perchance, all was dust and ashes of thwarted ambition.
It may have been an hour before dawn, when suddenly we found ourselves among the breakers, and the coast looming dimly through the mist.
And there, without any doubt, was the pirate vessel, looming large and formidable against the starlight, and rocking gently on the swell.
The people, breathing more freely, gradually resumed their wonted ways; but dark clouds loomed up, all unseen, just beyond the northern horizon.
Then they roared on into the moonlit night, on toward the empty reaches of the desert where the mountains loomed dark in the horizon.
The tower, one hundred and eighty-six feet high, when viewed from any point in the environs looms up a conspicuous object in the picture.
The calamity might have loomed larger while it was unknown, but at least it was unaccompanied by those real details from which there i
At their mere mention, the great ice sheet looms up with startling realism, and the reindeer and the mighty mammoth appear upon the scene.
Around the two great drum stoves clustered the men and older boys, and the Judge seemed to loom quite naturally above these as leader.
Most of the housewives had spinning wheels, but only a few had looms, for they were expensive and skill was required to operate them.
The mountains were smothered in dull-colored mist and fog, the great glacier looming through the gloomy gray fog fringes with wonderful effect.
We stood in silence while the great wall of night loomed into the zenith, and then fell westward through the luminous slope of heaven.
The lookout saw a towering "blue berg" looming up in the sea path of the Titanic, and called the bridge on the ship's telephone.
Right in front of me loomed a giant form with a rifle which looked about ten feet long, on the end of which seemed seven bayonets.
A sort of twilight reigned in this strange valley, and the dim, uncertain light made the great, basalt rocks loom up vague and fantastic.
Her mind was disordered; a life spent with her soul mate loomed to her so large and dazzling that all other things were as nothing.
The boat swayed up and down on the shimmering, heaving roll of the water, although the ponderous ship beside it loomed motionless as a rock.
The dark bulk of the pirates' asteroid, which had loomed so close to them for two days, was gradually but visibly moving away.
Loud hummed the loom, flew the shuttle like lightning, red roared the grim forge, rung anvil and sledge; yet no mortal was seen.
Still walking the floor with her father, she talked of the perplexities which in her feverish state of mind had loomed suddenly enormous.
Coverlets were being got into the loom, and the great wheel and little wheel going all day Jamie liked to help them "quill."
A few rods further, and they were at the side of the stream, and the boat loomed to view through the thick undergrowth and vegetation.
I gazed towards the light intently, expecting to see dark figures of murderous mold loom up before me, but in this I was agreeably disappointed.
Presently they could even distinguish the sound of oars, and at length the dim outline of a boat loomed across the entrance of the gulf.
Above them the Castle Rock loomed grandly in the night, the naked trees stood still and dark in the frost, along the boulevard.
Suddenly the figure loomed up in the darkness, and just as it came abreast of the bush, the officer bounded from his place of concealment.
Over the shoulder of one of them I could see the lighthouse, still a distinguishable patch of white against the looming gray of the land.
If the fair artists had been workers at the loom, they might have clothed half the living population in "fine linen," if not in purple.
Daylight found the ship reeling and staggering over huge jagged walls of water that loomed up ahead of her as if they would swallow her.
As the perpendicular wall of Horseshoe Curve loomed up ahead, she wrapped her arm about the side rope of the sled and hurled herself off.
She knew Harry loved her tenderly, devotedly; but she knew also there was some sort of shadow or secret looming ominously between them.
On the right lay the long, well-lit European railway station, beyond, a clump of high palms looming dark against the steely night sky.
She labored with the oxen to drag the pointed stick through the stubborn soil, and she crouched endlessly over looms in peasant huts.
In most sheds the space between the looms is so restricted that the weavers have to move the weights in the position of maximum disadvantage.
As men felt the need of clothing to wear, they tried to make cloth; and we find all kinds of primitive looms as their invention.
The child did not examine them very closely, for across the carpet of flowers loomed the magnificent and extensive palaces of the mermaids.
The long fight ahead to rebuild his name in the village loomed larger and larger, began to take on an aspect that was almost terrifying.
These two disquieting events, following one so closely on the other, loomed up in undue proportion to their importance, and threatened to overshadow the future.
The spools with tubes attached are then placed in the carriages, and are ready to be set up in order in the loom for weaving.
On one side was a huge tangle of down timber, on the other side loomed some impassable rocks; and a tiny meadow sloped away at the top.
Even as he spun around he was unaware of the shadow that lengthened behind him, until it loomed very near and a part of it lashed out.
Her bark leaped a couple of octaves into a shriek of fear, and out from behind a boulder loomed the hideous triangular head we knew too well.
With the instinct of his race to glorify physical courage, he had seen the shadow of his boyhood loom from the petty into the gigantic.
Among the carelessly dressed men, bustling along the streets in jostling haste, he loomed immaculately clad, detached, splendidly idle amidst their vulgar activity.
He went to the waiting engine in front of a long row of ballast cars, on which a big gravel plow loomed faintly in the dark.
"We shall be compelled to play bridge if we do not take care," she murmured in his ear, as a dowager larger than herself loomed up.
More sentries could be seen across the river, where the troop barracks loomed up and almost hid the hills which gloomed over the town.
And in the place were a few of his prints, two or three Chinese dishes, pottered by himself, his loom with the unfinished rug.
Ray, knowing that Rupert could never recall his father, was determined that at least one soldierly figure should loom heroic in his childish memories.
On the distant mountain peaks looming above the nearby horizon; it seemed that the sheen of coming night was mingled with the red sunlight.
It loomed immense and powerful through the driving snow, and, as it led steadily on, never looking back now, he followed with equal steadiness.
The boat churned a wide arc in the water as Gunnar turned it and headed toward the Tower, which now loomed far ahead like a beacon.
Out of the dark, vague shapes loomed, the trench filled with the sound of deep breathing and scuffling, and the shriek of sudden pain.
Then through the dimness loomed the high columns of a temple, and close beside it pale light spread out upon the road as from an inn.
And though now everywhere the loom is in request, still these and other eastern nations maintain great practice and unrivalled skill in needle embroidery.
Machinery, by developing the factory system, centralized industry and produced the great cities, attracting thousands from the farms to man the looms.
Horse-men loomed up before her and came nearer, and she could not get out of their path, though she struggled with all her force.
A definite quality of blackness loomed above the low-lying shroud of mist which at night in still weather always marks the course of a great river.
At certain intervals, indeed, the foreman stops most of the looms, and uses the freed power to stoke the engine and oil the machinery.
Dingle and Jenkins bent low, and in a moment discerned, looming up against the light in the village, the dark form of an Indian.
Not the apprehension of the unknown and unexpected this time, but the thrill of distrust experienced by one seeing peril looming unveiled before her.