There were lights in that room, and Madame De Brecy was there seated embroidering: while little Agnes, now greatly expanded both in form and beauty, sat beside his mother, sorting the various colored silks.
All the deceits in Clothmaking; as the sorting together of Wools of seuerall natures, some of nature to shrink, some to hold out, which causeth cloth to cockle and lie vneuen.
The euill sorting of threed of good or bad wooll, some tootoo [Footnote: Tootoo.
Illustration: Sorting gravel for diamonds in the Kimberley mine] One of the De Beers mines has been worked to a depth of about two thousand feet with no diminution in the quantity or quality of the diamonds.
Co-operating to improve the sortingdone at loading stations is a means of establishing a grade to meet competition and to reach new markets.
I build these of ordinary greenhouse sash about 3x6 feet, usually putting in two of these in each building on the north or east side of the roof, according to the slope, and directly over the sorting end of the table.
That is, Minnesota can obtain great improvement by adopting certain standards for the grading and sorting of potatoes.
For this reason the sorting out of all inferior fruit is essential, even more so than grading.
This freight, sorting charges and cost of disposing of refuse must be paid by some one.
Here they are stacked up and afterwards emptied onto the sorting tables or machine grader, and from thence into the barrels.
With trembling fingers he broke the seal and drew out several sheets of paper, smoothed them out before him, and began sorting them.
They had worked together, sorting in a cellar rented for the purpose, of which his partner kept the key.
The whole family would find occupation in sorting out their purchases, and each quality and size would be readily saleable as raw material, to be woven again into the cheaper woollen materials.
While his daughter was chattering, Mr. Vanstone was mechanically sorting his letters.
Sorting them gayly in less than a minute, she approached the breakfast-table with both hands full, and delivered the letters all round with the business-like rapidity of a London postman.
Mrs. Wragge was still occupied in sorting her parcels on her narrow little bed.
The next morning he woke with a sense of much to do, and soon began his future career by sortingthe type.
He had a hard time sorting the type; part of it was smashed, part of it very dirty.
And, lighting a fire in his sitting-room, he began pulling out drawers, sortingand destroying.
So in Gyp that Sunday afternoon, doing little things all the time--mending a hole in one of his gloves, brushing and applying ointment to old Ossy, sorting bills and letters.
Except for one unknown: if Mori did "accidentally" feed me the sorting that blew the whistle on Noda's design, why?
It was, I added, obviously some kind of special computer sorting of the firms DNI was targeting.
It come over the telephone from Wordingham while I was a sorting the letters.
The man within it was thinking deeply, sorting out and tabulating his impressions, sifting the irrelevant from what was of value, and making a precis of what he had gained.
After meeting a tribe whom this author, Collingwood, had written about in a previous book, and sorting out various problems there, they proceed on their way.
Post Office Tableau, illustrative of the Collecting, Stamping, and Sorting of Letters, and the Despatch of Mail Bags; also the sending of Telegrams.
A disk memory is needed for rapid overlay of programs and for sorting of multiparameter data.
I think that if an early biologist heard of birds that grow on trees, he should record that he had heard of birds that grow on trees: then let sorting over of data occur afterward.
This musical crawl he used as an accompaniment to the sorting and piling of various parts of an order just received from a Southern resort.
Jed, at work in his stock room sorting a variegated shipment of mills and vanes which were to go to a winter resort on the west coast of Florida, was, as he might have expressed it, down at the mouth.
A certain amount of moisture remains; even after the ironing, and must be entirely removed before the final sorting and folding and putting away.
Salmon the grocer, who had taken the post-office, as may be remembered, when the late Thomas Rymer gave it up, was sorting the letters in the room behind the shop when Lee went in.
When the girls were sorting a set of knots, he would demonstrate to them that all the ribbons were of the same colour; or rather, says Jack, of no colour at all.
