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Example sentences for "woollen goods"

  • In place of the steel wire brushes it is the usual practice to employ teasels for the treatment of woollen goods.

  • In the raising of woollen goods it is necessary that the pieces should be damp or moist while undergoing this treatment.

  • In the instance of woollen goods, theirs in our ports pay but a small duty; ours in their ports are loaded with duties[423] which amount to a prohibition.

  • In 1696 the English had given encouragement to the manufactures of hemp and flax in Ireland, but without stipulating any restraint of the export of woollen goods.

  • It is the chief centre of manufacture of cotton thread in the world, and its other industries include dyeing, bleaching, woollen goods, and engineering.

  • On one occasion Michael wrote me he had a good consignee for "woollen goods.

  • I have a knowledge of woollen goods if I have nothing else, and I dare say I can get an appointment as foreman or traveller for some big drapery house.

  • Miss Goold's inquiries elicited the fact that he held an undefined position under his brother, a respectable manufacturer of woollen goods.

  • The exports consisted principally of woollen goods, prepared skins, earthen-ware, and metals.

  • It seems that the English merchants endeavoured to evade the custom duties in the Danish ports, particularly on their skins, woollen goods, and tin; on which they were siezed.

  • Woollen goods, dyed with Tyrian purple, were imported from Miletus, in Caria.

  • Likewise we have patents for other machinery connected with the manufacture of all varieties of woollen goods.

  • I am in the machinery patent line--machinery for the manufacture of woollen goods mostly--and I have a few appointments in London.

  • The making of woollen goods throve in earlier times in Cullompton, and a rich clothier, John Lane by name, and his wife Thomasine, added a very beautiful aisle to the church about 1526.

  • Crediton had for a long time a very important trade in woollen goods, which were made here as early as in the thirteenth century.

  • At the beginning of the fourteenth century there was a lively trade in woollen goods, which were made here in considerable quantities, and this industry was carried on with varying prosperity through several centuries.

  • Ashburton is one of the old stannary towns, and besides mining, it was known for its trade in woollen goods, especially serges.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could think; dressed himself; each pole; final salvation; flannel shirt; glass shade; having long; human lives; little silver; negative angle; obedient servant; pint water; prison strong; prodigious number; small gold; take that; walked slowly; where busy; will place; woollen cloth; woollen goods; work done; yonder town