The teacher lifted it far away from that plane and made it loom high and large in their consciousness.
The big things in the studyloom too large for that.
But as population increased and the problem of providing food began to loom large in the public consciousness, the subject of agriculture assumed an importance that rendered it worthy a place in the school curriculum.
No sooner has the student arrived at deductions that seem conclusive than exceptions begin to loom up on his speculative horizon that disintegrate his theories and cause him to retrace the steps of his reasoning.
Doris paused by Nancy's loom and touched gently the unfinished pattern.
The loom by the window suddenly cried out, too, as if Nancy were bending over it--working on her unfinished but perfect pattern.
We are reminded of the old-fashioned hand-loom system of weaving, which used to prevail in English and Scotch villages in times passed away.
Just as that old system of weaving vanished in the introduction of the power-loom moved by machinery, so is watchmaking by hand about to pass away in Switzerland, and some other quarters.
After she passed behind the mountains the heavens were still brilliant with starlight, and whenever I waked I turned and gazed at the loom of the mighty arch against the clear night sky.
After waiting a few minutes we paddled slowly toward the landing, but before reaching it we caught his loom in the shadow, as he stood facing us some distance down the trail.
There are no skyscrapers, with lighted windows, looming overhead, as they loom over the Hudson.
The vivid recollections which loom suddenly, like silent ships, from out the fog of things forgotten.
He also invented the loom for the weaving of wire-cloth.
Old trees cling to its sides, and old temples loom up toward the sky, while crowning all is a sort of tower or dungeon of colossal size and of a mysterious Baroque design.
My ma used to spin an' weave in de loom room at de Big House.
My mammy wuked in de loom room at night by light of a pine knot.
Next she went to the loom and wove and wove until by the evening she had woven a beautiful silver cloth.
But all the weaver did was to guide his threads, for the machine that he had invented to set in motion the swings and the willow pole made the loom work.
Never did piece of property loom up so brightly, so physically and intellectually valuable.
Now their white cross belts are disclosed; their stalwart figures loom out.
She'd have fits of thinking she could work the loom again, and I'd have to keep her away--regular frighten her.
Silk-weaving had been decaying year by year in Manchester, and for hand-loom weaving, at any rate, there was no opening at all.
At the same moment David became aware of a couple of children craning their heads round the corner of the loom to look, a loutish boy about eleven, and a girl rather younger.
When he became dependent on her, Margaret bought a disused loom from a cousin, had it mended and repaired, and set to work.
The straggling village on Frimley Moor was mainly inhabited by a colony of silk hand-loom weavers--the descendants of French prisoners in the great war, and employed for the most part by a firm at Leck.
In every cottage there was a loom and a big spinning wheel.
The sound of the loom and the shuttle were never heard in the broad still streets of Penrith.
Later the silk-loom remained untouched, for Tchi gave birth to a son.
So they presently turned off into a narrow and deep-rutted lane that eventually brought them out upon a desolate expanse with the loomof woods beyond.
But still he kept on, and ere long he had the joy of seeing the big hook loom in sight.
Randall saw the dim figure loom up by his side, and demanded who he was and what he wanted.
A serious problem was encountered by the Tusayan builder when he was called upon to construct cooking-pit fireplaces, a foot or more deep, in a loomof an upper terrace.
Kwi´sa The planks set into the floor, to which the lower beam of a blanket loom is fastened.
Strips of buckskin or bits of rope are passed through these U-shaped cavities, and then over the lower pole of the loom at the bottom of the extended series of warp threads.
The planks or logs to which is attached the lower part of the loom appear in some cases to be quite carefully worked.
Stones with holes pecked in the ends for holding the loom beam while the warp is being adjusted; also used as seats; see p.
Often we found the loom situated in a damp, gloomy basement, or on the top floor of some old house that looked as though it might have passed through the storm and stress of the period of the French Revolution.
On another loomthere was being reproduced a piece of sixteenth-century brocade.
And although the hand loom can never compete with Manchester mills, still an occupation which kept the hands of the goodwife busy in the long winter nights, is not to be despised as an element in the economics of the Settlement.
