All unprescient of the day's impending event, she had come to the forge with the sley of her loom to be mended, and she now stood holding the long shaft in her mechanical clasp, while she listened spell-bound to the agitated talk of the group.
Her nerveless hands loosened their clasp upon the sley and it fell to the ground, clattering on the protruding roots of the trees.
The warp-threads next are drawn through the interspaces between two dents or strips of the sley or reed.
The sley was the most delicate part of the mechanism.
The warp-threads were carefully taken from the bars and rolled upon the wooden beam of the loom, the ends passed through the sley and tied.
See things in their forehead perhaps: kind of sense of volume.
Sir Walter Raleigh, when they arrested him, had half a million francs on his back including a pair of fancy stays.
Could he walk in a beeline if he hadn't that cane?
But Abimelech had not yet come nye her/ and therfore sayde: lorde wilt thou sley rightewes people?
Wherfore they shall gather them selves together agaynst me & sley me/ and so shall I and my house be dystroyed.
When Ioseph sawe Ben Iamin with them/ he sayde to the ruelar of his house: brynge these men home/ and sley and make redie: for they shall dyne with me at none.
And Esau hated Iacob because of the blessynge y^t his father blessed him with all/ & sayde in his harte: The dayes of my fathers sorowe are at hade/ for I will sley my brother Iacob.
That be farre from the/ that thou shuldest be after thys maner/ to sley the rightwes with the weked/ ad that the rightwes shulde be as the weked: that be farre from the.
Than sayde Iuda to his brethr[~e]/ what avayleth it that wesley oure brother/ and kepe his bloude secrett?
These serpents sley men, and eate them weeping, and they have no tongue.
The sley separates the warp, the woof is inserted in the middle with sharp shuttles, which the fingers hurry along, and, being drawn within the warp, the teeth notched in the moving sley strike it.
The web is tied around the beam; the sley separates the warp; the woof is inserted in the middle with sharp shuttles, which the fingers hurry along, and being drawn within the warp, the teeth notched in the moving sley strike it.
Rides with him every evening in his pe-rin-sley hired machine, doesn't she?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sley" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
