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Example sentences for "weaver"

Lexicographically close words:
weathers; weathervane; weatherworn; weave; weaved; weavers; weaves; weaving; weavings; weazen
  1. Nicolaus Storch, a weaver in Zwickau, proclaimed that he had visions of the Angel Gabriel, who had revealed to him: "Thou shalt sit with me on my throne.

  2. I long that the husbandman should sing portions of them to himself as he follows the plough, that the weaver should hum them to the tune of his shuttle, that the traveller should beguile with their stories the tedium of his journey.

  3. The Weaver Birds, 70-73 Weaver birds are sparrow-like birds of gregarious habits.

  4. Ploceus baya: The Baya, or Common Weaver Bird, or Bottle Bird.

  5. K-4 Weaver scope; nearly every season prior to deer season I will shoot it in and I have found several times it has been off just by riding in the back of the car.

  6. These are guns they use and that's the only ones we could think of offhand that would require just three holes, so we boiled it down, it was either Buehler, Redfield base or with the Weaver base being on the Springfield O3A3.

  7. Send for Catalogue, testimonials and terms, free, to =Weaver Organ and Piano Co.

  8. Yet the Weaver does not sleep, but only dreams.

  9. In truth the Weaver of Tears abides in the heart of woman.

  10. Then, too, there is the old legend that Angus goes to and fro upon the world, a weaver of rainbows.

  11. How well he remembered a legend that Ynys had once told him: a legend of a fair spirit which goes to and fro upon the world, the Weaver of Tears.

  12. Sadie," Mary inquired, "will you think me inquisitive should I ask what the carpet weaver pays you for the rags when you have sewed and wound them into balls?

  13. She cuts and sews carpet rags, given her by friends and neighbors, and from their sale to a carpet weaver in a near-by town, helps her widowed mother eke out her small income.

  14. The Hand-Loom weaver was recalled from his reverie to the urgent misery that surrounded him.

  15. Twit me no more then," said the weaver resuming his seat, "or I throw the shuttle for the last time.

  16. He had met Warner the handloom weaver in his way, and enlisted his powerful influence with the people on his side.

  17. I dare say," said Egremont bowing to Sybil, "you have seen our poor friend the weaver since we met there.

  18. Mr St Lys in that visit to the Hand-loom weaver when she had herself met the vicar of Mowbray.

  19. Now, the grandfather of Mary Wollstonecraft was an employing-weaver who did his work so well that his wares commanded a price.

  20. This being done, the virtuous Charles would get Mary a position as weaver in a woolen-mill, under an assumed name, and the past would be as if it never had been.

  21. The effect of the restrictive system on the weaver is evident.

  22. In the amount of these balances almost every weaver in the country bore a part, and consequently they were almost all caught in this snare.

  23. Out of these take now the case of the weaver caste, with whom we happen to be particularly familiar, as our work in Gujarat is largely carried on among them.

  24. Sam'l was a weaver in the Tenements, and Sanders a coal-carter whose trade-mark was a bell on his horse's neck that told when coals were coming.

  25. I parted from Hendry, cheered by the doctor's report, but the old weaver died a few days afterward.

  26. In some circles a lover who behaved like Sam'l would have been suspected of intent upon his rival's life, but neither Bell nor Lisbeth did the weaver that injustice.

  27. The weaver was strangely calm and collected, though he would have liked to know whether this was a proposal.

  28. They say," some other weaver would remark, "'at it was you Bell liked best.

  29. Bitterly the weaver repented having waited so long.

  30. Miss Weaver has been kicking about the noise on the side.

  31. Miss Weaver was not popular in the company.

  32. That was good; but far better was it that you also sent our Miss Weaver into violent hysterics, from which she emerged to hand in her notice.

  33. From the front of the house roars of laughter indicated the presence on the stage of Walter Jelliffe, while now and then a lethargic silence suggested that Miss Clarice Weaver was in action.

  34. And then Henry, massaging a stricken elbow, was aware of Miss Weaver at his side.

  35. You fill the house every night, you get rid of the Weaver woman, and now you tell me this.

  36. But when the 'squire turns farmer and merchant himself, all the good money he gets from abroad he will hoard up to send for England, and keep some poor tailor or weaver and the like in his own house, who will be glad to get bread at any rate.

  37. Another weaver is then added and an inch of pairing is made.

  38. When there is just enough weaver left to go around once, the edge is bound off.

  39. An end of the weaver (which has first been unwound) is placed along the horizontal spokes, back of the vertical ones, with its tip toward the right.

  40. The weaver then returns to the spoke it first doubled around, where it doubles back again.

  41. It is now the turn of the second weaver, which also passes over the first spoke on its right, under the next and outside, where it is held down in front while the other weaver repeats the process.

  42. After going under one spoke and over another, the weaver is passed under the last row of weaving just before it reaches the next spoke.

  43. In joining a new weaver lay it across the end of the old one, back of a spoke (see Fig.

  44. Needless to say, the weaver must be very soft and pliable in order to make these sharp turns.

  45. Have ready a basin or pail of warm water--not hot--and let the spokes and weaver soak in it for ten or fifteen minutes.

  46. It is calculated that an Indian power-loom weaver working 72 hours a week can turn out 70 lb.

  47. Lancashire weaver can do the work of six Indian power-loom weavers and nine hand-loom weavers.

  48. There had been a Squire in the Weaver family three generations back, and Peleg held firmly to established precedent.

  49. One was over at Miss Hornaby's when she wouldn't let Minnie and Myron go to school 'cause their shoes were all out on the ground, and the other time he got that French weaver over at Beacon Hill for selling cider.

  50. White was the weaver from whom we got it.

  51. They cost a guinea a-piece: the price of one of them, which Colonel Pembroke threw away because it was not perfectly ripe, would have supported the weaver and his whole family for a week.

  52. For want of this trifle, of which neither the fashionable colonel nor his fashionable tailor had leisure to think, the poor weaver and his whole family were reduced to the last degree of human misery--to absolute famine.

  53. The tailor's conscience twinged him a little at this instant, for he had spoken entirely at random, not having the slightest grounds for his insinuation that this poor weaver had ruined himself by drunkenness.

  54. And one of its ends at least was gained: the weaver was at home with him.

  55. A Spitalfields weaver ought to be like the cats: they don't mind how many of their kittens are drowned.

  56. The ill-tempered, numbering but one more than MacGregor, growled and swore a little, the weaver declaring that he would not go home.

  57. Though the art continued to be the servant of refined luxury in the fifteenth century, Arras itself had done its work,[406] and was superseded as the greatest weaver of artistic tapestry by a neighbour and rival.

  58. It has been at different periods the crowning glory of the craft of the weaver to place different patterns or pictures on the two sides of the web.

  59. The weaver has introduced a little portrait of herself at her loom, under the folds of the virgin's cloak at her feet.

  60. A few years afterward Domenico found a wife in the family of a silk weaver who lived up a tributary valley of the Bisagno, within an easy walk of Genoa.

  61. Writing in the eighteenth century, Sonnerat remarks that the weaver fixes his loom under a tree before his house in the morning, and at night takes it home.

  62. The weaving industry is on the decline throughout the district, except perhaps in Razam, and the weaver castes are taking to other means of livelihood.

  63. The Sales are the great weaver class among the Telugus, for the following note on whom I am indebted to Mr. C.

  64. The following legend of Savadamma, the goddess of the weaver caste in Coimbatore, is narrated by Bishop Whitehead.

  65. It is a well-known fact that the people of the weaver castes, as well as Mussalman weavers, are generally improvident, and consequently poor.

  66. Chetti (merchant) lost by partnership, while the weaver came to grief by isolation.

  67. Well, I came to understand what the poor little weaver felt.

  68. The weaver at his loom is sitting, Throws his shuttle to and fro; See you not how shape and order From the wild confusion grow, As he makes his shuttle go?

  69. As the weaver makes his shuttle Hither, thither, scud and scuttle.

  70. Calmly see the Mystic Weaver Throw His shuttle to and fro; 'Mid the noise and wild confusion.

  71. See you not the Weaver leaving Finished work behind, in weaving?

  72. Now the landscape is crowded with busy hives of industry, town and country go hand in hand, the farmer and the weaver live side by side or combine the two occupations.

  73. A poor woman, a silk weaver by trade, who had been reduced to live by casual labour at charing or by selling bootlaces, had entered the previous night.


  74. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weaver" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.