The rug makers are a small group of Indians who live outside the town but who carry their hand looms from house to house, as required.
At the weavers' looms he was "all eyes and ears," as one remarked.
After one o'clock on the afternoon before Christmas was a mill holiday; and while the great looms were silent, those who usually toiled at them took their way into Wallburg city to do their Christmas shopping.
But fresh food was at a premium, and the wretched looms were doomed to suffer a long assault at the hands of our energetic sportsmen.
It was the slack season at the factory, and Mr. Kinvig's jewel in looms was compelled to stand idle three working days out of the six.
In a large room facing the sea a dozen hand-looms for the manufacture of drift-nets had been set up.
To-morrow is the first day of the herrings--no time for new net-looms to-morrow at all.
Just then Kinvig announced that the choicest of hislooms was in another room.
To even name the various loomshere would be to make a list of ribbons, velvets, cloths and other tissues.
We condemn both your looms and their ploughs to inaction.
The Empire which to us still looms largely on the horizon of the past, will to them sink lower and lower as they journey onwards into the future.
To this strength his imperial dignity was indeed a mere accident: its sources were the infantry of Spain, the looms of Flanders, the sierras of Peru.
Now Time hath changed and gnawed this mortal veil, Death and the soul in conflict strive together About my future fate that looms so nigh.
The whole of his formlooms blurred through the veil of stone, and what his two hands and arms are doing with the hidden right arm and hand of the Virgin may hardly be conjectured.
We used to have more looms than now, but cloth is sold so cheaply that we gradually began to buy.
Thus our littlelooms would even now be more profitable--to say nothing of the independence we secure in working them.
He afterwards seems to have worked at piece-work in partnership with one Andrew Gamble supplying the materials as well as the workmanship for the looms and shuttles.
Not less important were his improvements in power-looms for weaving fustians, which were extensively adopted.
His principal work consisted in designing and making power-looms for his employers, and fitting them up in different parts of the country.
The weavers were affected even more than the croppers, for strength and skill were not so needed to tend the power looms as to work the hand looms.
The introduction of power looms threatened to abolish their calling.
The hostility was among the hands thrown out of employment, or who found that they could now no longer make a living by the looms which they worked in their own homes.
I have made a close calculation, and find that with the profit the mill is making I shall just be able to clear our household expenses this winter, after selling at a loss all the cloth that can be made in the looms round.
Hardly less warm than the satisfaction that the announcement that Sankey was about to give out work to all the hand looms excited in the villages round Marsden, was that which Abijah felt at the news.
Before going to bed of a night I always pile these in the middle of the room where the looms are, which is the first as you enter.
The ancient square donjon of the eleventh century, known as the Tour de Cesar, still looms high above the town.
The great white Chateau de Chambord, with its turrets and its magnificent lantern, looms large from whatever direction it is approached, though mostly it is framed by the somewhat stunted pines which make up the pleasant forest.
Before them now looms up a mountain, around the side of which winds a road four miles long, which they must climb.
Now we would not for the world speak disparagingly of looms or huts.
My dear sir, those early New Englanders were in trade schools from the time they began to crawl on the floor among their mothers' looms and spinning-wheels.
She couldn't operate soap-kettles and candle-molds and looms and smokehouses and salting-tubs and spinning-wheels for him.
The foothold of to-morrow looms insecure, yet a very pressing message must meanwhile reach your hands.
Nevertheless, the atmosphere of the proposal, though reasonable, looms a degree stormily into a troubled future.
The church of Sacramonte looms rather prominently in the landscape, and you are to some extent rewarded for the trouble of a pilgrimage thither by the fine view of the city.
Here repose the members of the illustrious Ribera family, which looms very large in the history of Seville.
Carved chests and spinning wheels and lace and little looms and fishing implements and traps for bears, saddles and flutes and harps and drums give the attentive student a very fair idea of how the peasants used to pass their days.
Gone to museums are the ancient looms weighted with stones from the beach, but old carved chests and solid furniture of wood worked in the northern way are still by no means rare.
You learn your looms if you want to git wedded--and I know in reason you do--it's about all gals of your age thinks of.
Johnnie had been an expert weaver on the ancient foot-power looms of the mountains; but the strangeness of the new machine, the noise and her surroundings, bewildered her.
Ye know I'm a-gittin' looms thar to-morrow mornin'.
Johnnie ran into the kitchen to help Mrs. Bence get breakfast on the table, for Pap Himes was bad off this morning with a misery somewhere, and his daughter was sending word to the cotton mill to put a substitute on her looms till dinner time.
Her looms stood where she could continually get the newcomer's figure against the light, with its swift motion, its supple curves, and the brave carriage of the well-formed head.
And she scuttled back to her looms as the room boss came in.
These, it is well known, were framed to prevent the introduction of looms wrought by machinery, or power-looms, to the superseding the ordinary looms wrought by hand.
To me he looms up, even more than Richelieu, as an instrument of Divine Providence.
He owed nothing to art; he looms up as a prodigy of Nature.
The sound of the looms was like heavy rain hissing on the waters of the canal.
The other day when I was going through the room one of these shuttles flew off, as they sometimes do when the loomsare running at high speed.
The looms absorbed and fascinated Janet above all else.
Ahead of her were the lights of the Chippering Mill, in her ears was the rhythmic sound of the looms working of nights on the Bradlaugh order.
We will start no more loomsthan our capital will work, and we'll ask credit from no one.
But I heard that Deacon Strang had bought the looms and the lease.
Spades, hammers, and looms belonged to people of another kind.
Behind it looms the hill-cone, and in front The peaceful river winds its silent way.
Thunder-Cap, with its sleeping stone-giant, looms up into the heavens.
One grand old mountain-cone looms on the left Far up toward heaven, and all around are hills.
A grand bald-headed hill-cone on the right Looms like a patriarch, and above the branch There towers another.
Through the mists of ten centuries his figure stilllooms large.
Bigger and blacker looms the house ahead, and still no challenge from dog or man.
Five seconds more and out from the fire-spitting blackness at the south looms the charging column, and a blinding glare lights up the wood, a crashing volley wakes the echoes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
