But we run headlong each to destroy other, even from that heavenly sacrifice of the altar, whereby is represented that perfect and ineffable knitting together of all Christian men.
And may the compaction or knitting of Nature do more in the body of a beast, that shortly must perish, than the coupling of the Holy Ghost in the mystical and immortal body of the Church?
No suggestion of knitting or fancy-work was to be seen.
Women knit constantly in the streets about their other work, whether bowed down under huge bundles of fagots on their backs, serving milk at the houses, or doing many other things with which we should regard knitting as incompatible.
No; formerly there was, but now the teaching of sewing and knittingis distributed among all the lady teachers.
I asked if sewing and knitting were taught, and was answered in the affirmative.
Often the man will be free, while the woman and the dog side by side drag the cart to which they are tied, the woman usually knitting even when the air is cold enough to benumb her fingers.
Nearly all the German ladies take their knitting or fancy-work.
I got home about twelve and found mother knittingjust as though she had been knitting ever since I left her.
Orchards Corner did not pulsate with excitements, and youth, with all its ardour, had left age to its knitting needles and wool.
She had let that spirit of superiority grow in her, forgetting that the hands that were always knitting those foolish woollen superfluities had held and comforted her as a child.
They reached the lane leading to Orchards Corner, and on coming to the white fence sighted Mrs. Carfax sitting in the garden, with the inevitable knitting in her lap.
She kept a continuous sparrowish twittering, clicking her knitting needles and sitting stiffly in her chair.
She laid down her knittingand rose; a belated customer had appeared.
Lucilla, without raising her eyes from the brown silk she was knitting into a narrow strip, slightly waved a hand in the direction of Miss Dawson.
Ornamental groups can be made by threading good sized shells on middle sized wires, twisting them together and winding them on a fine knitting needle.
One of the Gessler cousins had been knitting lace, double oak-leaf with a heading of insertion.
Cousin Dorcas was knitting "shells" for a counterpane.
Some of the ladies were knitting lace on two little needles that had sealing wax on one end, so the stitches could not drop off.
When they stepped up on the stoop they saw an old lady sitting in a rocking-chair, with a little table beside her, and some knitting in her lap.
It plagued me a little at first, but now I can do it so fast, much faster thanknitting it.
The prisoner, knitting his brow, was listening to her with raised eyebrows.
I cannot hear what you are saying," she shouted, blinking and still more knitting her brows.
Knitting a stocking, she was looking through the window and disapprovingly frowned and closed her eyes at the language used by the passing prisoners.
The consumptive with the child in her arms and the watch-woman, who did not cease knitting a stocking with her nimble fingers, approached Maslova.
She drew out one of the knitting needles, stuck it into the ball of thread and stocking, and went out into the corridor.
The general, gloomily knitting his brow, gazed fixedly on the hands, and imagining that the saucer moved itself, pulled it toward the letter l.
Then she dropped her knitting in complete consternation.
Mechanically old Hannah, bowed and bewildered, began to do up her knitting in the fading autumnal afternoon.
In the meantime Hannah had been sitting on the porch, knitting like an automaton, and staring at the yellow cat with eyes full of dazed terror.
She was a not uncomely figure as she sat in the October sunlight knitting steadily, her hair abundant although silvery, and her figure still alert and erect.
The story of the ill-starred loves of the young couple was really not much, although the two gossips knitting in the sun had spun its length over many a summer's afternoon.
Hannah laid down her knitting for a moment in the breathless excitement of this announcement.
She ain't come down yet," Hannah answered, her thin hands going on with the knitting like a machine.
Their knitting lay neglected in their laps while they tried to take in the full meaning of this wonderful thing.
She laid her knitting down upon her lap and fixed upon the little boat a regard which seemed one of the closest attention, yet which saw not the white sloop or the dingy sail with its irregular patch of brown.
Mother looked up from her knitting with a gentle smile and said, "Does it, darling?
Mother appeared, knitting her scarlet muffler as she walked.
She went on knitting a sort of muffler thing she held up close to the lamp.
She could think and talk as well when she was knitting for the reason that she did not have to keep her eyes nor her attention upon what she was doing.
Mrs. Preston spent much of her time in knitting because the weakness of her eyes made reading and writing difficult.
Four red spots flamed giddily out in their four sallow cheeks, and eight shining knitting needles suddenly became idle.
They came in, each with her knitting in a black silk bag on her slim arm, and greeted the flushed, perturbed Marcia with gentle, righteous, rigid inspection.
We did not at all approve of this big house, nor indeed of David’s setting up in a separate establishment for himself,” said Aunt Hortense, taking up her knitting again.
At last Aunt Hortense took up her knitting again with the air that all was over and an unrevokable verdict was passed upon the culprit.
The gleaming knitting needles seemed to Marcia like so many swarming, vindictive bees, menacing her peace of mind.
Out past Granny McVane’s they drove, the old lady sitting upon her front porch knitting endless stockings.
She drew from a work-bag a purse she was knitting of silken thread, and worked as she watched the sleeping child.
She talked no more than had been her wont, and her knitting needles clicked quite as sharply.
There was a shoe factory right across the street, and a box shop on one hand and a knitting mill on the other.
Her knittingneedles continued to flash in the sunlight.
Here Aunt Sarah spoke up for the first time, her knitting needles clicking.
As she passed the red house, and caught sight of the silver-haired old lady knittingat the window she quickly turned her head away, determined to ignore her in the future.
Just after luncheon, as Nathalie and her mother sat knittingon the veranda, a loud "Honk!
Mrs. Page sat knittingon the veranda the following morning when Nathalie came hurrying out of the house with an angry light in her eyes.
Then, turning towards the girls, she cried, "Every one in favor of appointing Marie Katzkamof captain of the Knitting Squad, please hold up her hand.
On these days a score of ladies, old and young, could frequently be seen having a social chat over the teacups, while listening to some popular ragtime air, or a classic from one of the old composers, while knitting for the soldiers.
One morning, after breakfast, Miss Grey took her knitting and the Church Times and sat down in the veranda.
Her knitting fell from her grasp, and the needles jangled on the tiled floor.
Even now the thin hands that rested on the Bible twitched at times mechanically as if even in the blessed rest of Sunday evening she felt the touch of the omnipresent knitting needles.
In the summer months, when the big boys worked in the fields, a woman generally held sway, and taught knitting and sewing to the girls.
Even 'Melia, the maid-servant of tender years, would share in the social enjoyment, as knitting in hand she stole furtively in from the kitchen and listened unreproved to the interesting discourse.
One dreary winter evening, when little Annie was about a year old, Penny sat at her knitting by the fireside, the baby in her cot close by, fast asleep.
He liked nothing better than to sit opposite her by the fireside, watching the tireless swiftness of her knitting needles as they flashed in the firelight.
Mr. Tucker, knitting his brows and gazing anxiously at Mrs. Bowman.
Mr. Spriggs emptied his glass and, knitting his brows, drew patterns on the cloth with the back of his knife.
She was knittinglace for the curtains, and chatted gaily as she worked.
The lady who sat knitting on the cellar door seemed to be the difficulty with all of them.
Angus's woman sitting on the cellar door knitting was a contingency that required to be met with guile.
I would like to see Maud," Mrs. Harris said one night to Shaw as she sat knitting a sock for him beside their cheerful fireside.
I wish you'd consent to my transforming your fishes," she said, as she took up herknitting again.
The ape moved as naturally as an ordinary person might, and on Ervic's entrance stopped knitting and raised its head to look at him.
Indeed, he had firmly resolved to carry out this plan when the Yookoohoo put down her knitting and walked toward the door.
They sat down by the fire and took up their knitting while the bookseller ran out to see if the volume had by any chance returned to his shelves.
The knitting needles flashed with diligence, and the dog by the fender stretched himself out in the luxuriant vacancy of mind only known to dogs surrounded by a happy group of their friends.
Then they would retire to the den, where Mrs. Mifflin was generally knitting or reading.
She had taken up her knitting and was again working with nervous haste: there was considerable bitterness, too, in the tone of the last words, which came sharply and pointedly from between her compressed lips.
I shall never possess a foot of the property," said the General, knitting his brows.
Aunt Rikchen had let her knitting fall into her lap, and her eyes once more filled with tears, which this time did not disappear.
YOU are not much,' said Miss Abbey Potterson, knitting her brows again with disdain.
