The warper was sitting by the fire at his evening meal, and he gave the wanderer a long steady look, then without a word returned to his porridge and porter.
I dinna," the warper acknowledged quietly, "but I've been trying to do my duty by him for all that.
Stop the mill and listen," Auchterlonie begged him, but the warper returned to his seat and the mill again revolved.
They didna ask the right questions," she told him, and when the warper asked if Tommy had said so, she declared that he had refused to say a word against them, which seemed to her to cover him with glory.
I wonder at that," the warper said, "for I assure you he has been harder 'at it than ever thae last nights.
If Elspeth was present, the warper might sit moodily by the fire, but when the man and the boy were left together, one or other of them soon retired, as if this was the only way of preserving the peace.
The warper did not for a moment take his eyes off a contrivance with pirns in it that was climbing up and down the whirring mill.
I wish you would give that sacket a thrashing for me," he said, half furiously, yet with a grin on his face, one day when he and the warper chanced to meet on the Monypenny road.
Another thread broke and the warper rose with sudden fury.
The strange words in which the warper described his fall had always an uncomfortable effect on those who heard him use them, and Auchterlonie could only answer in distress, "Maybe that's what it is.
The lieutenant had insisted on taking up most of the spare space in the lifeboat with that dismantled space warper from the wreck of their ship.
The position is curious, there being a woman winder and a warper now serving on the Committee while the weavers, a larger and better paid body of women, are represented only by men.
The warper sat on by the fire, his head sunk miserably in his shoulders.
The warper was still crouching by the fire, but his head rested on his chest; he was a weary, desolate figure, and at the other side of the hearth stood an empty chair.
An ordinary Warper with creel requires a space of about 8 ft.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "warper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
