If you ravel a piece of checked gingham, you will see that half the warp is white and half colored; and that in putting in the woof or filling, a certain number of the threads are white and an equal number are colored.
Ravel a piece of silk and examine the warp and woof.
Mr. Urquhart was in sic a ravel after it that when he gies out the first line o' the hunder and nineteenth psalm for singing, says he, 'And so on to the end.
Of all piano music, only that of Debussy and Ravel seems as thoroughly steeped in the essential color of the medium, seems to lie as completely in the black and white keys, part of them, not imposed on them.
Over his waltzes Ravel maliciously sets a quotation from Henri de Regnier: "Le plaisir délicieux et toujours nouveau d'une occupation inutile.
It is that Ravel dares, and dares continually; seeks passionately to bring his entire body into play; aspires to plenitude of utterance, to sheerness and rigidity of form.
Last night one Mr. Kirk made his escape from the officers’ prison; he took the same method that Captains Rols and Ravel did before him.
I know you and the lofty spirit you bear, And easily ravelout a clue to all.
He willingly consented to this, and Ravel joined me at Clarens so that we might work together.
While Ravel was at Clarens I played him my Japanese poems.
At this ceremony, attended by the highest Government officials of Paris, I conducted my Suite de l'Oiseau de Feu, and Ravel conducted his Valse.
One night Luke Ravel and Jim had some words over a game of cards, and bad blood was engendered between them.
Hardly had he taken two steps, when there was a blinding flash followed by a loud report, and Jim Cartwright lay dead, shot through the heart, while Luke Ravel stood over him; a smoking .
He put his mouth against her throat, below the ear, as she offered it, and stood looking out through the ravel of her hair, dazed, dreamy.
He kissed her hair, which was beautifully fragrant of itself, and time after time drew between his lips one long, keen thread, as if he would ravel out with his mouth her vigorous confusion of hair.
Knit and ravel out a quantity of yellow worsted or floss silk, and with it construct a nest in the center of the oval, putting a hen into the nest.
Ravel the edges into a fringe two inches deep; then, beginning two inches within the edge, draw the linen threads all round in a band an inch and three-quarters wide.
When the surface begins to ravel seriously, maintenance becomes much more difficult and in order to prevent raveling and the difficulties of maintenance thereafter, the macadam surface is often coated with a bituminous material.
Usually there will be a few small areas of the surface that, on account of faulty construction, will ravel or become rutted much earlier than the remainder of the surface.
The latter is all quickness, impetuosity, and entrain; Ravel is of a more passive style of comicality.
Ravel is seldom seen to greater advantage than as a soldier.
Ravel is another droll dog, but quite in a different style from Levassor.
Before you begin to weave you must make a solid line across the end so that when you run your first bit of woof across it won't just push right up to the bar of the loom and thenravel out when you cut your product off the loom.
I didn't mind not having consideration for the day, because I think Ravel being played on it can't do Sunday anything but good, but I did mind having disturbed the other people in the flat.
I wonder what would happen if I sat on my window-sill and played Ravel to the larkspurs and the stars!
Cortez has been seeking a sponsor To ravel the intricate language, When he is informed of the maiden, And she is first brought to his presence.
Thus, did he lead them to their better selves, And ravel out the intricates of life In wisdom's stern and simple litany; Gave trenchent lessons to the man and wife, And scattered homes upon new harvest fields.
Therefore, as you unwind her love from him, Lest it should ravel and be good to none, You must provide to bottom it on me; Which must be done by praising me as much As you in worth dispraise Sir Valentine.
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